Official 2019 Wild Turkey Thread

Patterned my Maxus this morning... I have a new favourite load, Winchester Long Tom XR 12 ga 3.5" #6 - 2 oz @ 1200 fps... it was throwing even kill patterns at 65 yards... I would never shoot that far on a live bird, but at 50 yards the patterns were devastating...
 
The ROC said:
Having some fun from inside my cabin this past weekend. I spread the grass seeds and they keep coming in eating them up.

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I could be wrong but I don't think they define "bait" in the regs. You might not want to spread stuff around if you know they're going to eat it.
 
I never said I was baiting. I said I spread the grass seeds they just come in and eat it up. No different then putting out the garage for garbage day and the coons come in to feast and make a mess on the drive way.

Don't misinterpret things.
 
The ROC said:
I never said I was baiting. I said I spread the grass seeds they just come in and eat it up. No different then putting out the garage for garbage day and the coons come in to feast and make a mess on the drive way.

Don't misinterpret things.
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It doesn't matter whether or not you said you were baiting. The fun begins when a fish cop says you were baiting. Then you can try that line on him: "Don't misinterpret things!" :)

I wonder how that would play out...especially in Ontario...

When I lived there, a C.O. once told me...after he screwed up my morning turkey sit by tromping up to me through an open field at 7:00am...that he could charge me with baiting because he had discovered a picked-clean corncob in the centre of the field as he crossed. That field had never been baited with anything, for anything, in at least the 10 years preceding this incident. I can only assume that corncob was dropped there by a crow? This was my own land, by the way. After making it clear that he could throw the book at me, he eventually left me with a stern warning not to "do it again!" Do what? Sit alongside a pasture that somehow contained a single dry, kernel-less corncob?
 
jjohnwm said:
It doesn't matter whether or not you said you were baiting. The fun begins when a fish cop says you were baiting. Then you can try that line on him: "Don't misinterpret things!" :)

I wonder how that would play out...especially in Ontario...

When I lived there, a C.O. once told me...after he screwed up my morning turkey sit by tromping up to me through an open field at 7:00am...that he could charge me with baiting because he had discovered a picked-clean corncob in the centre of the field as he crossed. That field had never been baited with anything, for anything, in at least the 10 years preceding this incident. I can only assume that corncob was dropped there by a crow? This was my own land, by the way. After making it clear that he could throw the book at me, he eventually left me with a stern warning not to "do it again!" Do what? Sit alongside a pasture that somehow contained a single dry, kernel-less corncob?
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So he interrupted your hunt by crossing the field and marching toward you without any suspicion of any wrongdoing until he got halfway across the field to discover some evidence. I hope the idiot lost his job at some point during his career.
 
The same CO did the same thing to me several times over the years during various seasons, as well as to most of my neighbours. No suspicion of anything, never a citation; I am very scrupulous about obeying game laws. It was like a MNR-sanctioned R.I.D.E. program.
 
Purchased a used 22" Upland barrel for my BPS a couple of years back. For some strange reason it patterned almost a foot to the left and 6" high, when sighting down the rib.
Got a hold of some good adjustable rib-mounted sights and finally zeroed her in today. Forty yards, 3" #5 LongBeard XR, Primos TiteWad choke. 133 pellets in 10" circle.

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The ROC said:
I never said I was baiting. I said I spread the grass seeds they just come in and eat it up. No different then putting out the garage for garbage day and the coons come in to feast and make a mess on the drive way.

Don't misinterpret things.
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I definitely should have assumed that someone posting a video of turkeys on his property, in a turkey hunting thread, wasn't planning to hunt them. My bad.
 
yorgi said:
Purchased a used 22" Upland barrel for my BPS a couple of years back. For some strange reason it patterned almost a foot to the left and 6" high, when sighting down the rib.
Got a hold of some good adjustable rib-mounted sights and finally zeroed her in today. Forty yards, 3" #5 LongBeard XR, Primos TiteWad choke. 133 pellets in 10" circle.

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I had that happen with a new Beretta Extrema years back. Went back to the range and even had buddy shoot off a gun rest at the pattern board with the same results, way low and right. I also fixed mine with a set of adjustable Tru-Glow sights.
Just goes to show you how valuable it is to hit the range to pattern guns PREVIOUS to hunting.
 
smokin'stoegie said:
Just goes to show you how valuable it is to hit the range to pattern guns PREVIOUS to hunting.
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Yup.

I take care of poa/poi issues at about 15 yards with target loads. Once it's hitting where I aim I move back to about 40 yards and pattern my loads.
 
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