Turkey hunting and BS welcome!

Lol my brother had new green camo on and stood out like a sore thumb. It will be fine in a few weeks but I did get to flip him shit about it all day which was worth it. You can see how dead all the foliage is behind him in that picture.

 

Trees and brush just started popping a couple days ago . Started taking my Claritin allergy pills a week ago won’t stop until June . Been seeing turkeys all over . Birds in the pictures were a few miles down the road from my house . Close to the side of the road in a freshly tilled field . I blew my horn multiple times and they double triple gobbled every time

 

Todays pattern test . 30 yards Winchester Long beard Xr , 3” 12 gauge . Velocity 1200 , 1 3/4oz . Numbers 4,5 and 6 shot . All same specs on each shot size . Two chokes . My old Rhino turkey choke and the new Pattern master Black Turkey choke . So 6 shots total all have at least 20-30 pellets in kill zone and the whole pattern is pretty much a ten inch circle . Going to use the Pattern master with the 5 shot .

 

Brand new box ,wtf

 

That sucks I would let whoever you bought them from know. Just remember refunds on ammo can be tricky. Good luck

 

Contact Winchester and send them those photos. I had two bad browning shells a couple years back. Were bent and had a bulge just above the brass, if you can believe that. From over crimping I guess and wouldn't even chamber in gun. I contacted their customer service (which is Winchester):
https://winchester.com/Support/Customers/Contact-Us

Got email reply and took a few exchanges to relate issue, provided pictures and batch info from box etc. Was ultimately refunded the purchase price for the bad shells.

They will make it good.

 

Thanks . Clicked on the link and filled out the form . Hopefully they contact me because you can not upload pictures through that link .

 

It might have came through Palmetto State Armory in Florida . I just got an order last month from them . I also had a few boxes from Walmart . They should be able to tell from the lot number when they contact me

 

My refund amounted to $15 for two shells back in 2021. Believe I had gotten those on sale. Same shells are over $10 a piece now. I don't care if they are only $.50 a piece, it's the principle. Purchased in good faith so they should make it good.

 

That’s no good but it looks like the shot lok buffer did its job lol. I love how long beards pattern out of my 870

 

One Tom . Most of the birds around here have disappeared. Lot of jakes this year and I think they ran off most of the Toms . not much gobbling in the morning. Season starts May 1

 

Jeez, I just bought a box the other day better check it out

 

Still been in the woods with some friends and family. No kills but worked a few birds, either out of range or hunter out of position for a shot. Wish I'd saved a tag.

 

Called in a hard gobbling two year old tom for a friend this morning. Came running in 15 yards at a time then breaking down to strut for 5 seconds and running in again. Shot at 30 yds.

Been hunting a few eves with my Wife after work sitting a roost ridge. Big tom slipped in on us Saturday eve at 25 yards and made us. Seeing jakes there every hunt. Still time left.

 

Monday is opening day
Hunting here the first 2 days then headed to Pennsylvania where my friend has a new 60 acre piece to hunt and says it’s loaded with turkey

 

Spotted 4 long beards together this morning across from the house . Looks like opening day is gonna be a wet one

 

Been a rough year so far I missed a bird last week and have managed to screw up 2 other birds but finally connected this morning on a average 2 year old bird.

 

Nice ,congrats!

 

4 Toms ,3 hens . One Tom is huge