anybody done this before?
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It has to be terrible, lead at least has some give. I had a friend break a tooth and TSS concerns me.
The way I look at it, you either made a bad shot or you didn't clear your gobbler very well ... IMO...... :OGturkeyhead:
I cut all my birds into strips for fajitas or poppers so I don't have any issues
Neither taste good and yes lead shot does have some give but like Greg said you may not have cleaned it very well. I'll take TSS over anything else on the market right now and I used both.
Not TSS..........but a Federal Heavy 7 pellet.
Gave a couple sets of leg quarters to my mom's boyfriend and he did them his secret way in a Crock Pot. Long story short............apparently a pellet hit a twig or was just a flyer. I bit into one back on my 6-year molar. cracked it beyond saving. A couple years and a nice (?) price tag later I have a dental implant where my 6-year molar used ta was.
You bite into a lead pellet it sucks. But there's some give. Tungsten alloy pellets forgive NOTHING. I've gone to running turkey meat under a cheap, old metal detector. 7's are pretty small. 9's and 9.5's are POWERFUL small.
Quote from: Yoder409 on December 31, 2022, 01:59:51 PM
Not TSS..........but a Federal Heavy 7 pellet.
Gave a couple sets of leg quarters to my mom's boyfriend and he did them his secret way in a Crock Pot. Long story short............apparently a pellet hit a twig or was just a flyer. I bit into one back on my 6-year molar. cracked it beyond saving. A couple years and a nice (?) price tag later I have a dental implant where my 6-year molar used ta was.
You bite into a lead pellet it sucks. But there's some give. Tungsten alloy pellets forgive NOTHING. I've gone to running turkey meat under a cheap, old metal detector. 7's are pretty small. 9's and 9.5's are POWERFUL small.
Responding to the OP, yes, I've bitten into TSS and luckily didn't chip a tooth but it was surprising I didn't. As far as it being a bad shot or something: shoot a pattern at paper and while the core will be uniform I'd just about bet my a$$ there's a straggler somewhere outside the pattern. #9 is tiny, tiny. Good luck with that.
But Yoder! This is brilliant! I'll have to try that metal detector idea this spring!
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Yes. You will find the route from your molar to your brain very quickly!
Yep. We have a hand held metal detector my kid has. Works great. Pin pointer.
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Quote from: Cowboy on December 31, 2022, 04:32:31 PM
Yep. We have a hand held metal detector my kid has. Works great. Pin pointer.
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I picked up a garrett propointer just for this purpose and it would not detect #9 tss put into the middle of a snack stick. I had to have the bb in my hand with the detector directly on it for it to pick it up.
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Hey VT, I have no experience with metal detectors - but have bit down on tss. I reload tss for my gun that I bought from Hal, but my wife shoots federal tss. We have a shot trap and I use a magnet to recover Hal's shot. I've found the federal tss is not magnetic.
Would that make it harder for a metal detector to find?
I've had to replace two toilets after passing TSS that I had swallowed previously. Serious penetration. :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
From what I can tell, tss shoots through birds, clears brush, passes through trees and ends up lodged into a dirt mound the next county over so unless I pop some raw like a tic tac.. I'll never know
It's not uncommon to find an occasional pellet in your dinner. It's happened to me a couple of times with doves and ducks and I'm fastidious in the kitchen when cleaning and fabricating game birds. It is easier to miss a pellet in those darker fleshed birds and in the leg and thigh meat of turkeys too I suppose. Never had a problem with turkey breasts however.
Quote from: Tail Feathers on December 31, 2022, 09:07:34 PM
I've had to replace two toilets after passing TSS that I had swallowed previously. Serious penetration. :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
Okay there it is, Tail Feathers is now relegated to using the Outhouse!
Quote from: Guskie on December 31, 2022, 08:58:42 PM
Hey VT, I have no experience with metal detectors - but have bit down on tss. I reload tss for my gun that I bought from Hal, but my wife shoots federal tss. We have a shot trap and I use a magnet to recover Hal's shot. I've found the federal tss is not magnetic.
Would that make it harder for a metal detector to find?
I'm not sure, but I THINK it might be due more to the size of the shot. When I had 2 or 3 bbs in my hand it detected them easier.
Was hoping it was going to work better for me because I have bit into hevi shot 7s before when cooking the breasts whole. Figured a $130 detector would be cheap insurance compared to a visit to the dentist.
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On two occasions, I thought i was going to have to make a trip to the dentist. One time I could see where a very small fragment chipped off my tooth. Both times tooth "healed" on its own. And then my girlfriend chipped a tooth! Didn't require much at the dentist, but they filled it in with something? I immediately bought the Garrett Pro-Pointer metal detector and now go over all the meat very thoroughly. Link to metal detector:
https://garrett.com/sport/pro-pointer/pro-pointer-at
I shoot 8.5s, and its still tough for the detector to pick them up sometimes. I figure 9s and 9.5s will just be that much tougher to find. The metal detector HAS found pellets I never would have otherwise.
For those saying "you ain't going over the meat good enough". Well, you obviously ain't killing as many turkeys as some of us do each spring. Unless you can only see his head when you shoot, you are liable to get a flier somewhere in him. Just the nature of the game with that many pellets coming down the barrel.
I have also taken to labeling my breasts accordingly to whether it should be "pellet free" or potentially have pellets in it. I keep those "pellet free" breasts for smoking and cooking large cuts. The breasts that are suspect to have some pellets get cut up in smaller pieces for fajitas, shredded turkey, etc. When I'm feeding others, I will only cook the "best" breasts.
Quote from: deerhunt1988 on January 01, 2023, 09:21:13 AM
I have also taken to labeling my breasts accordingly to whether it should be "pellet free" or potentially have pellets in it. I keep those "pellet free" breasts for smoking and cooking large cuts. The breasts that are suspect to have some pellets get cut up in smaller pieces for fajitas, shredded turkey, etc. When I'm feeding others, I will only cook the "best" breasts.
Good idea. :icon_thumright:
I am planning on buying a cheap hand held metal detector and give that a try. something like this
https://www.amazon.com/HOMPO-Metal-Detector-Pinpointer-Professional/dp/B07SDQ4Z3N/ref=sr_1_3?crid=37ZX2YQJTRSFS&keywords=hand+held+wand+metal+detector&qid=1672612966&sprefix=hand+held+wand+met%2Caps%2C219&sr=8-3
wow love the detector idea, 700+ 9 or 10 shot TSS pellets in my 12ga loads and 590+ in my 20 ga load so a flier is not out of the question
someone els could have peppered the bird before also
I like the metal detector idea, those 9's are hard to find for sure.
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Tss sucks to bite into! Of the 300+ birds shot with tss i have ate its going to happen eventually. My few times I have bit down on it it will definitely let you know it. Luckily I didn't chip or break any teeth. I cut my meat into smaller cubes for cooking and try to inspect each one but tss leaves such a small pellet trail eventually one will find its way to the plate.
I did it last Spring. Chipped tooth number 14. (upper first molar) Had to have my first crown. Still bothers me to eat on that side.
I still plan to shoot TSS this year though.
Nathan, I tried my Garrett pro pointer after a buddy said that would work, it didn't for me, found a pellet and ran my pro pointer over without a beep. unless it is user error, Nathan have you got a beep from TSS?
Quote from: 3bailey3 on January 16, 2023, 09:29:56 PM
Nathan, I tried my Garrett pro pointer after a buddy said that would work, it didn't for me, found a pellet and ran my pro pointer over without a beep. unless it is user error, Nathan have you got a beep from TSS?
Make sure the sensitivity is set to high. Hold the power button for a couple seconds once it is on, until you hear a three note beep. Then with each successive press of the power button, you will be changing the sensitivity and report noise (sound, vibrate). Sensitivity has 3 levels (1 beep = lowest , 3 beeps = highest). Sounds more confusing than it is. But it MUST be on the highest sensitivity (3 beeps). Also, try to detect the pellet along the side of the wand rather than the very tip.
Did you get a vibrate from the pellet? Just thinking that maybe your wand alert is only set to vibrate rather than beeping too.
yea I don't know if I had it on the highest setting, thanks for the info Nathan.