Turkey hunting w/ 22-250?

[YoteSmoker]

I purchased a fall turkey hen/tom license on-line last night and despite having an 870 super mag 12 ga am tossing around the idea of using a rifle instead, for the challenge/fun aspect, which is legal here in colorado. I know their head is always moving around but I think I could make a neck shot pretty easy or at least at the base of the neck. My rifle is a single shot and shoots the 60 grain v-max and hornady h.p. very accurately. What I noticed shooting a lot of prairie dogs with it this summer is that the v-max really blows them up (duh) while the h.p. passes through with little to no expansion, like a 22lr bullet on small game essentially. I am not considering using a 22lr of course, due to me witnessing one hit in the breast run/fly off hit by a CCI stinger when I was a little kid. Anyway, does anybody have experience or advice? I've also considered using my 209x50 since I will be hunting deer/bear with two weeks later in September....but that might not be enough fire power on a tough tom

 

[1Shot]

If you are planing on eating the bird use your shotgun. Even a FMJ from a 22-250 hit in the body all you have is mush. From the school of been there and done that with a 220 Swift. The thing with a shotgun is being able to call them in close enough to shoot them and having them not spot you.

 

[JD338]

Yote,

Keep your shots in the head and you will b fine.

JD338

 

[Ridge_Runner]

ok, will probably catch hell for this, but it works have done it more than a few times.

A shot with anything bigger than a 22 if placed just above and behind the leg on a broadside turkey will kill them before they get out of sight.
The open space between where the breastbone ends and the end of the spine will blow out the tissue holding the guts in (the space where the anus is where all that holds the intestines in is skin, where you cut them open during cleaning) they flop around some but when the intestines fall out they die quickly.
Have used this shot with calibers ranging from the 223 to the 350 rem. mag. all with the same results....... a dead turkey.
RR

 

[wildman]

+1 on what ridgerunner wrote :grin:

 

[Antelope_Sniper]

R_R, bird on the table, not going to argue with that!