So The Warden is driving over to Lincolnton to run an errond, and she passes this place where the local American Legion is setting up for their turkey shoot which they have every Saturday from tomorrow towards the end of December. She immediately calls me and says "They're setting up for a turkey shoot. I want a turkey. Go win me one." Well, I've never really been interested in turkey shoots because they seem like they're blind luck. The way I understand it, you use shotguns, shoot at a paper target, and who ever has a hole closest to the crosshairs wins. Is this correct? If I do decide am ordered to try it out, the only 12 gauge I have is a home defense set up, I have visions of being mocked mercilessly by large, bearded men wearing overalls and holding their pee-paw's old, worn out 870 named Bo-Whoomp.
Two words: slug, reflex sight. Well, that's three words, I guess. About 15 years back, my brother went to a similar shoot at a local gun club, and took his iron-sighted AR-15. The other shooters, equipped with bolt and lever action guns topped with nice optics, were ribbing him about bringing such a gun. Then they had the contest: the shooter had to take three shots at a simulated deer target being pulled across an opening 100 or so yards downrange. My brother--hardly an expert shooter--took his turn and when the deer appeared, he tracked it and BAM BAM BAM fired three very quick shots. He won the event.
Sometimes a turkey shoot works like this: whoever gets the most pellets of a certain size - #6 #4, whatever (since they're using a shotgun) in the designated area wins.
So, did you win? I can honestly say I've never gone to a Turkey Shoot. My first thought when I saw the thread title.
I didn't go. It's going to be every Saturday until towards the end of December, so I've got time. I might go this weekend just to watch.
I just participated in a turkey shoot. It was part of my son's trap and skeet team's practice. We used a club provided Beretta AL391 20ga from 25 yards. The goal was to eat a hit to as close to the center of the bullseye. I lost by about 1/8th of an inch. The winner was the mom who had never shot a shotgun before. About as frustrating as that kid with a cane pole and bits of bread catching all the fish while you don't get squat. Here is my target.
Turkey shoots are essentially random, since they use a shotgun on full choke. So I've never associated them with any sort of precision marksmanship.
All the turkey shoots I learned about growing up with with a rifle. Shoes - they had one advertised for the Singleton Community Center around here.
The one here's with a shotgun like Frontline described above. Last Saturday I just put on my outdoorsey clothes, grabbed my shotgun, walked out the door in a manly fashion, went and got a turkey at Bi-Lo, came home and said, "I won". That's a strange place to be shooting firearms. It's right in a residential area.
