Final range tune-up for Turkey season today

[roundball]

Fifth and final range tune-up session today...about as ready as I can be for Saturday's opener.
PS:
As you see in the target I missed one...and if that happens during the season, of course it'll be a world record 10 year old bird with 5" spurs and quadruple paint-brush beards dragging in the dirt.
:wink:

 

[Skychief]

I'd say you are ready to go Roundball. :thumbsup:

Good luck and keep us posted, Skychief. :hatsoff:

 

[wattlebuster]

That should do the trick :thumbsup: Goodluck RB

 

[Flintlock58]

Good luck to you!!

 

[roundball]

Luck to you guys as well...

 

[Dave Marsh]

Good luck to you Roundball and good shooting there. I have a few more weeks here in NY.

Dave

 

[Leon/Iowa]

That looks like it should do the trick. Good luck.

 

[Slowpoke]

You can use a rifle in NC for turkeys? I never knew that.

 

[roundball]

You can't use a rifle...I'm using a 28ga smooth bore (shotgun), with written Email approval from the NC-WRC laminated and tucked away in my hunting vest

 

[Slowpoke]

You're able to shoot a single round ball out a smoothbore and still be legal? That's pretty cool.

According to the laws here in South Carolina, concerning deer hunting with my 28g, it's illegal but every time I talk to the DNR they say it's ok until I show them the book.

Wonder how much trouble it would be to lobby for a rule change.

Anyway, good luck today

 

[roundball]

Since there always seems to be a lot of threads about round vs. square patches, for what its worth I started out with store bought round patches years ago, and have now used square patches for a number of years in various calibers & gauges...simple / quick to make, 100% reliable.
Picked these up after my final Turkey season range tune-up session a couple days ago.

Rice 42" x .54cal Smoothbore barrel
90grns Goex 3F
.028" x 1+3/8" patches from Jo-Aann Fabric
Natural Lube 1000
Eddie May .520" cast balls

 

[coloradoclyde]

Roundball I have a serious no :bull: question for you.
As I look at your target (and that is a very nice group by the way)

Is that group where you would really aim?
I am not trying to yank your chain.

 

[roundball]

I'd say you are ready to go Roundball. :thumbsup:
Good luck and keep us posted, Skychief. :hatsoff:

PS:
Well, I may have been ready...but the turkey gods must have been on break because I never heard a gobble or saw a feather.
Heard 3 shots (7:00am, 7:30am, 8:20am) from the exact same spot on the adjacent property like I do every year...probably been baiting them for months.

 

[Skychief]

:hmm:
Good things come to those that wait.

With other hunters out and about, the gobblers are sure to get scattered a bit.

Keep after them Roundball!