25 Cal on Wild Turkeys?

[Emu]

Please tell me about your experience on shot placement with 25 Cal on wild turkeys.

I know that for a head shot a 4,5 Cal would be enough.

I already have two wild turkeys with chest shot, but they were with 30 Cal and was more than enough, but I would like to know if 25 Cal would be suffient for a chest shot on a Turkey?

Thanks a lot.

 

[TNT19]

I have use my 25 to hunt alot of critters. I have hunted duck, geese etc. It's pushing 60 ft lbs and I have yet to need a follow up shot. I have shot the 25 gr, 33 gr, the polymags and the hornets with great success. For the ducks and geese the Hornets worked the best at 50 yard plus to penetrate the coat of feathers.

 

[Kgphotos]

I used a .25 Air Ranger to take a body shot on a turkey. I wanted to take a head shot but he wouldn’t hold his head still enough. He kept moving further away and finally at about 40 yards I just took an upper body shot. At the shot he ran maybe 15 feet and collapsed. I was shooting JSB Kings at about 47 fpe. 

 

[Jayson]

I used a .25 Air Ranger to take a body shot on a turkey. I wanted to take a head shot but he wouldn’t hold his head still enough. He kept moving further away and finally at about 40 yards I just took an upper body shot. At the shot he ran maybe 15 feet and collapsed. I was shooting JSB Kings at about 47 fpe.

Same experience here, but with a crown shooting slugs @ around 50 yards, they will not hold their head still enough for me, so I started plunking them between the lower wing and drum stick broadside, they hop up in the air and come down flapping, 32-34 grn, big hollow point nsa@ 850-900, sounds like your shooting a mud puddle, zero meat loss

 

[kayaker]

ducks geese turkeys wish my state would allow that I'd be in heaven we have a large supply of them !

 

[Houli]

Shooting a turkey in the body with a pellet rifle I consider to be the worst choice possible and highly discourage it. Turkeys are not hard to kill and can be easily taken with .177 caliber, personally I like the .22 cal. Have taken them up close and at extended distances with great success. Anything under 60 yards I'll take head shot, placing cross hair directly behind the eyeball. Anything beyond I choose to take a neck shot. A body shot usually ends up with a dead bird but too often the bird wont be recovered, given hours or a day and that bird will have died from the bacteria of the pellet wound. In such cases it would have been best to have chosen not to have shot.

Take the time to know your quarry, take the time to know your rifle, learn your calls and you can be a very successful and ethical hunter.

Emu, .30 chest shots will do the job but why, not your best choice. I know the birds don't stand still for long especially in the fall season, spring season is a different story and much more exciting! If you are needing a bigger target may I suggest the shot high between the shoulder blades when walking away. Take your time and choose your shot, this is one of the most exciting, rewarding animals (birds) to hunt with a pellet rifle! I no longer hunt with a shot gun.

May you enjoy the same pleasure, Enjoy!

 

[Guest]

I always thought that ducks fell under federal guidelines and could only be taken in flight with a shotgun.

iI have been wrong before.

Mitch