What is a good round for turkey hunting?

**mrnyman** · October 9th, 2009, 03:14 AM

What is a good rifle round for Turkey Hunting?

Is .22 mag good enough out to say 40-50 yards?

Thanks, nyman

**BandanaBandit1** · October 9th, 2009, 01:01 PM

use a 12 gauge federal turkey load, great patterns youll get.

**Dextrimental** · October 9th, 2009, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by BandanaBandit1

use a 12 gauge federal turkey load, great patterns youll get.

+1 on this. I use them out of my Mossberg with excellent patterns.

Brad

**Feddog82** · October 9th, 2009, 03:05 PM

For fall turkey I have used many different caliber rifles with different results. When i first started using a rifle for fall turkey I used a .22 Hornet with great results at varying distances out to around 100yds. Then I got a .17 HMR and had about a 50percent 1 shot kill ratio out to about 100yds. I moved on to a .22 WMR and found this to produce 1 shot kills about 25 percent more of the time that the smaller .17 HMR. Now for 2 seasons I have decided to hunt a very large field area with a .223 and had fantastic results. Last year I took a large gobbler at 185 yards and he went right down. Much better performance from the .223.

**4XLT** · October 9th, 2009, 04:12 PM

though i dont hunt Turkey i have what i consider to be the perfect Turkey gun.. its an old Savage .222 over .20 guage.. also a great coyote round!

**MaxPower** · October 9th, 2009, 04:37 PM

I've bagged fall birds w/ 22 long rifle out to 100-120 yards. I was using Remington Yellow Jackets. I now have a 22 mag and plan on using 33 grn rem premiers. I've shot one w/ a 223 at about 60 yards and never got the bird, musta passed right thru. 55 grn sft pts