First turkey Shoot (Not Hunting)

I've not attended any in years, but around here they had a rule that you had to let anyone shoot your gun. I guess it was to even the field if you had a really tight choke. Anyone else ever heard of that, or similar rules?

Many turkey shoots ban "sleeved" guns which can have a gradual choke from the chamber to the muzzle. Some are so tight that they would like the pellets to exit one at a time. They do give the user quite an unfair advantage as compared to normal shotguns.

other turkey shoots require you to use their ammo to keep you from taping the wings of the wad together

Congratulations! Glad you enjoyed it. That's an American-as-apple-pie shooting game. In the 'old days' it was done with a live turkey tied behind a log so only the bird's head showed from time to time, and the shooting was done with rifles.

Turkey shoots are pretty common in this area (NC, but I've seen them all over the southeast). Sometimes they are known as card shoots. Last one I participated in used a big steel plate downrange with a 4" square hole cut in the center. There were angle iron tracks welded on the back that held a piece of 1X6" board that in turn held ten 4" square card stock cards about an inch apart with an X printed on the cards, corner to corner.

There were ten shooters per relay, the folks (local volunteer fire department) running the shoot had a number of 'card boards' made up and ready, and the board was just slid over one slot for each new shooter, with a new board used for each relay. That made things go along at a pretty good pace and cut down on the waiting. Each target had its shooter's name and relay number written on it before the relay was called to shoot so there no confusion afterward.

Whoever got a pellet closest to the center of the X was the winner...

the turkey shoots i attend you have rounds, and everyone shoots at there own target and who ever is closest to bullseye wins.

Here in Ohio "turkey shoots" are big money. There are some teams that split the winnings. People will win 1500 or more on an afternoon.

My buddy Curtis is a licensed gunsmith here in Ohio. He makes significant money building, customizing, changing and re-changing turkey shoot guns.

The guns are not your average shotgun around here. A lot of folks start with a bolt action 12ga and have a specialty barrel screwed onto it. One of those barrels rolled off a bench and hit Curtis' foot a couple weeks ago and it is still very sore.

The chokes are very unique also. They have splined chokes and stepped chokes and different configurations.

The guns also have scopes on them.

The circuit around here, maybe Indiana, W. Va, maybe Pa is very cut throat, It is so bad that Curtis can't even shoot without the idjuts accusing him of holding back when he builds their guns.

I saw one that started life as a Stevens pump. The magazine tube was removed and replaced by an aluminum block attached to the front of the action that somehow helped with the barrel lockup into the receiver (the barrels are hard screwed in, no barrel extensions).

There was a slot milled into the left side of the action and a nob was fabricated to cycle the bolt. Of course it became a single shot. My buddy did not build this one.

I have seen turkey shoot guns that cost some very big bucks.

check these out:

http://www.turkeyshoot.net/Gunworks.htm

http://www.sumtoycustoms.com/index.php/photos/target-shooting