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The two photos directly above show two of the better birds I've taken with muzzle-loaded shotguns. Here's a look at the loads I've come to rely on when hunting with these two shotguns. I've now taken around 30 gobblers with these two muzzle-loaded shotguns. 209 primer ignition Knight 12-gauge TK-2000 (bottom shotgun shown above).īoth of these shotguns have now been around for 20 or more years, and have stood the test of time - because each has proven to be the best of each design. Today, just one of those modern muzzle-loaded shotguns is still with us. With the popularity shift to muzzleloading rifles of modern "in-line ignition" design during the 1990's, several of the companies building ultra-modern muzzle-loaded rifles also added a few similar ignition system front-loaded shotguns as well. and especially wild turkeys is the company's powerhouse Magnum 10-Gauge Double (top shotgun shown directly above). but my choice for hunting most upland game. The company currently offers a couple of very nice 12- and 20-gauge models. Today, the only manufacturer offering muzzleloading shotguns of traditional design is Davide Pedersoli & Co., of Brescia, Italy. and which could be loaded for taking a wild turkey. During that period, there were a half-dozen great front-loaded shotguns available. The height of modern day "traditional muzzleloading" was durng the late 1970's and early 1980's. the hunter pretty much had to insure that a big gobbler was well inside of 20 yards before pulling the trigger. no matter how much powder and shot one stuffed into one of those shotguns. However, when hunting a game bird as large as a wild turkey. to facilitate loading wads through the muzzle. and were built with true "cylinder bore" barrels. Those early smoothbore reproductions really did a great job of duplicating the shotguns of the mid 1800's. about the same as what an Italian made percussion double copy was selling for back then. Moore I used to take my first muzzle-loaded tom. but there were a lot more shootable originals to be had, like the excellent condition circa 1850's Wm. with a muzzleloading shotgun with absolutely no choke in either barrel!īack in 1973, there weren't many reproduction muzzleloading shotguns on the market. After all, I had just taken the first gobbler I had ever called in myself. I can remember feeling as if I was the "Greatest Turkey Hunter" of all. And as I packed the 24-pound Eastern gobbler out of those woods.
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It was an easy shot for the, then, 140 year old shotgun. looking for the hen that had made those sensual yelps.
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I followed the big bird with the bead of the shotgun as it marched right in to within 15 yards. as the mature gobbler quickly made its way through the open woods. A minute later, I spotted the tips of the fanned tail.
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and pulled the right hammer back to full cock.
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rested the forearm of the shotgun on an upraised knee. and the tom cut me off with a thunderous gobble. A couple of light yelps from my Lynch box call were immeidately answered. and as I eased down in front of a huge oak tree. I moved to within a hundred yards of the turkey. At first light a gobbler sounded off a quarter-mile down the same ridge I was hunting. 4 shot - using traditional card and fiber wads. I had each barrel of the shotgun loaded with 90-grains of FFg black powder. Moore side-by-side muzzleloading "11-Bore" percussion shotgun thrown over my shoulder. with an original 1850's English built Wm. So, those tracts of National Forest is where I headed the very next spring . and I tagged my first gobbler - shooting my ol' 12-gauge Remington Model 870 pump shotgun. which I got to know fairly well before John called in four toms. We spent a lot of time on National Forest land. and we just happened to be hunting the area near his boyhood home. John was also the head turkey biologist for the State of Missouri. John Lewis, who is widely recognized as the "Father of Modern Wild Turkey Management". The previous spring, I had spent several days wandering the high hardwoods covered ridges with Dr. That 1973 hunt took place in the Ozarks of Southern Missouri. I well remember my first morning of hunting wild turkeys with a muzzle-loaded shotgun.