Frustrated!

[wbralo]

Number 7's are deadly in my set up! A lot guys have great success with them.

[turkey_slayer]

Im not easily offended so I can take whatever advice or berating anyone wants to give to me because I can always learn from someone and Im sorry for the type-o guys I didnt realie that I said #4 I meant #5 HEVI #5 but just for good measure I went out today to gander mountain in Knoxville and bought some of those god awful expensive 4, 5, 6 load HEVI and a box of 2 1/4 ounce #5 Nitro and I will test these two to see if they will do better. I bought another choke to try out too with my moss 535 but it didnt fit. (hard to find chokes for 500 models in store) maybe I need to upgrade to a 835 or 935 but I would really love to move up to a SBEII for duck too...

If you have a box of Hevi 4-5-6 from enviro-metal I will eat the box it came in.  Be kind of surprisedifyou found Nitros at Gander too.

Starting to smell funny in here?

Where do I send this box?

Wrong Nitros. This is the Nitros everyone talks about. nitrocompany.com First thing I would do is ditch the decoys and make em come looking for me and fine tune your setup

[FL-Boss]

just spend some time working with you gun. Know your gun.  Shot some big poster board at 15 -20 yards with cheap ammo to check the point of aim.  Once you have the sights correct.. move back to 40 yards with those Mag Blends.. or HEVI #7 and let her rip.  Post result of the 40 yard targets...   

[surehuntsalot]

100$+ on completely unnecessary stuff.  everybody likes to rush out and buy new/different stuff when they don't kill the prey they're after, but no one likes to look at themselves at realize what the real problem is.  "40-50" yards is too far to shoot a turkey reliably, period.  i'd wager from the sound of things that at least one of your birds were farther then 50 yards anyway.  stop buying all that crap and get back to basics.  practice shooting your gun without flinching and get the bird 30 yards or less.

oh so very true

[firstflight111]

not to be a stick in the mud maybe it you there seeing and not wanting to come in . i quit running around in the woods and sitting on the ground , and started just sit in my big blind and call them to me . most of the time there under 20 yards .we shoot the at 3 yards out to 40 yards . our kill rate went way up and the big tom most of the time just walk right out from behind you right next to the blind .

[MouthCaller]

not to be a stick in the mud maybe it you there seeing and not wanting to come in . i quit running around in the woods and sitting on the ground , and started just sit in my big blind and call them to me . most of the time there under 20 yards .we shoot the at 3 yards out to 40 yards . our kill rate went way up and the big tom most of the time just walk right out from behind you right next to the blind .

I bought a ground blind for the first time a few days ago but Im still waiting on it to arrive. Let me ask you this is your blind up all the time or do you pack in it and out because Ive seen a lot of people post about leaving it in the woods for a few days before hunting it.

[redleg06]

Shooting some dove loads instead of any of these turkey loads should tell me if the sights are off which I dont think they are...

every load may pattern differently.  Use the cheap stuff to get you in the general area and if it's "pretty close" with the cheap stuff then switch over to the actual shells you plan to hunt with and make sure they are dead on.