Old School Turkey Loads

[MossRem]

Today, we have a lot of choices with regard to turkey loads and chokes.
How about 60 years ago...around the time my Granddaddy Smith and his brother in law Joe bagged their turkey? Here was your selection back in good old 1952...
Chokes: fixed factory full or modified. Or you could have a Poly-Choke put on your gun.
Loads: What'll it be? 4s or 6s? 2 and 3/4, or 3 inch? That's all there was unless you loaded your own shells.
Brands: Remington and Winchester. Don't know if Federal was even putting out shotgun shells back then.
I would have to believe that Granddad and Joe are probably up there in heaven, having a good laugh at our expense...mainly, at the "expense" of all the spending we do on turkey gear!
They hunted in detective hats and overalls they probably worked in that day. They made their own cedar box calls. Both had double barrel shotguns, most likely with 2 and 3/4 chambers.

They called it close, and they killed it dead. That about sums it up.

[MossRem]

I almost forgot to mention Peters shotshells....Remington with a blue hull! LOL
My father used to hunt quail. He always used to like Peters high base 16 gauge shells because he thought they hit harder than Remington or Winchester. Hated to break the news to him!

[FttFttVroom!]

I remember when I started hunting in the early 80's and I thought the Remington buffered Nitro Mags were the cats meow for turkeys....and they came 25 shells to a box!

[surehuntsalot]

I still have some "old school"ammo

[ccleroy]

Some of the baddest

[MossRem]

ACTIV! I used to have some of those! I couldn't get a good pattern out of ACTIV 6's to save my life...

[GOLD HUNTER]

i got afew old ones .......

[trkehunr93]

i got afew old ones .......

What the heck is the one in the bottom pick?    I've never seen a 7" shell.  That is crazy!!!

[GOLD HUNTER]

YEA AND TRY TO JUST SHOOT THAT PUPPY .............

[TrophyTracker]

Old School Tinkerer's Dream

[TrophyTracker]

Someone GAVE me this box full of shells a couple years ago. Still have most of them

[jarbo03]

Old School Tinkerer's Dream

Would love to have those hulls, lots of killer steel recipes for those ACTIV's.

[Michigander]

A 7'' shot shell !? Suddenly my shells feel intimidated

[fountain2]

awwwww man, i remember the 2x4 and 4x6 loads...thought they were awesome years ago....they looked cool anyways.  i want some now just to have.  i think i killed my first 2 with those loads..killed 2 in one shot with em. i think one of my neighbors actually mentioned some that he wanted to give me the other day....i need to follow through with that now that i think on it

[WildTigerTrout]

I have some old Rem Duplex 3" BB and #4. IMO they would make Coyote loads. Not legal here anymore for Turkeys.