What is the going price charged for a turkey shoot? The club that I belong to is going to hold one, but it has been years since any of us have shot one and I am trying to figure out what a decent price is.
I haven’t been to a turkey shoot in a long time but it was about $3 a shot. You could never beat the guys that had their barrels worked on and there were no kind of restrictions. The final straw was when somebody aimed their .22 rifle back toward town in the air and fired a shot. I left immediately and haven’t been to one since.
My stepdads dad was heavy into turkey shoots. He hand machined chokes and sold them, made plenty of money doing it. Not nearly as much as he made on side bets during matches, he won a boat off a guy once. Old timers around here are serious about it. I can think of at least 3 weekly ones within 15 minutes of my house.I haven’t been to a turkey shoot in a long time but it was about $3 a shot. You could never beat the guys that had their barrels worked on and there were no kind of restrictions. The final straw was when somebody aimed their .22 rifle back toward town in the air and fired a shot. I left immediately and haven’t been to one since.
You and either 9 or 11 other folks shoot at a standard target one time each (10 or 12 separate targets) and the closest hole to the bull or the biggest hole over the bull wins a frozen turkey or ham or half of the monies in the pot. My pops gave me his old double that does really well in the hunting gun shoots and I have an 835 custom barrel that does ok in the rifle sights shoot.WTH is a turkey shoot?
You're not from around here... Are ya' ?WTH is a turkey shoot?
You're not from around here... Are ya' ?
I've always thought a Vang Comp modified gun would work well in a turkey shoot. Lengthened forcing cone and back bored. Someone I knew that shot them said it's basically a very large caliber pre-fragmented rifle.
inserting a gauge in a back bored gun would not tell them anything as the amount of choke is the constriction from the bore size not the diameter of the choke IE a xtra full is .040 with a normal 12 ga bore of .729 that would make it .689 now on my backbored gun .735 bore 12 ga the same xtra full chole would measure .695 or some where between the normal choke size of a IM and a full choke tubeLinwood Lions starting 25 october, off I85 @ lexington airport/ high rock lake exit, south about 1 mile
90 ft
stock guns,
32" barrel length and can't remember choke bore limit... they have a gauge to insert in muzzle.
IIRC, 3 dollar/ round
have turkey rounds, ham round, maybe a money round.
some decent hotdogs also....
A local volunteer fire department used to hold them fairly regularly several decades ago. The prize went to the pellet closest to the center of the bulls eye. The shoot provided the ammo so nobody could cook up a special load. Anybody could fire any shotgun at the shoot so that someone with a real whizbang tight choke had no advantage.
jus reportin what they do, how you want to cheat is up to youinserting a gauge in a back bored gun would not tell them anything as the amount of choke is the constriction from the bore size not the diameter of the choke IE a xtra full is .040 with a normal 12 ga bore of .729 that would make it .689 now on my backbored gun .735 bore 12 ga the same xtra full chole would measure .695 or some where between the normal choke size of a IM and a full choke tube
its not a problem because I don't do turkey shoots !!!!!!!jus reportin what they do, how you want to cheat is up to you
they also supply the ammo....
oh, and i understand the concept of backboring.
Linwood Lions starting 25 october, off I85 @ lexington airport/ high rock lake exit, south about 1 mile
90 ft
stock guns,
32" barrel length and can't remember choke bore limit... they have a gauge to insert in muzzle.
IIRC, 3 dollar/ round
have turkey rounds, ham round, maybe a money round.
some decent hotdogs also....