tss users

Sounds like y'all have a culture based on having your heads up your own backsides. Where we have common sense, we use shot to limit lethality.

Considering turkey hunting regularly tops the HRSI totals for hunters shooting other hunters and has since well before TSS existed the whole “we use common sense” doesn’t exactly hold water when your argument is that you use less lethal shot to reduce the chance of killing someone because you failed to properly ensure it was clear down range before firing.

The much better alternative is to just not shoot when you don’t know what’s behind the target like the vast majority of hunters do while rifle hunting. Most turkeys are killed on the ground so it should be easy to set up with a proper backstop.
 
One of the reasons we use shotguns for turkeys is to have projectiles which lose lethality quickly. We don't want someone 100 yards down the bottom catching pellets when we shoot a turkey.

A T9 is supposed kill a gobbler to at least 70 yards. A T9.5 puts divots in my aluminum ladder from 100 yards. I'd be concerned about what a T7 might do that I did not intend when I fired the shell.

Good news, you can put your fears to rest as TSS is not lethal to people past 30 yards.

“This PSA is brought to you by the jackass that shot someone in the head with a 3.5” 12 gauge shell worth of TSS at 30 yards and the guy lived.”


Notice in that article nobody was accidentally hit while shooting a turkey, every single person was shot by somebody thinking what they were shooting was a turkey.
 
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