Friday, April 20, 2012

Pheasant Loads for Turkeys? Patterning your shotgun and testing different loads

With a box of turkey loads being fairly expensive for just a 10-round box, and with the recent developments in some of today's high-end pheasant loads, I share my thoughts on patterning your shotgun, and test Federal Premium Ammunition's Prairie Storm pheasant loads for use in turkey hunting.  Testing the pheasant loads in #4 shot, I pattern my Remington 870 turkey gun with the Prairie Storm ammunition and a number of other "turkey" loads - all the way out to 40 yards - and show you just what some of today's high-end pheasant loads can do!  ...costing the same amount of money for a box of 25 as a box of 10 for "turkey" loads, they might be a better economical fit for today's "cost conscious" hunter.