Hornady Heavy Turkey loads

[Daveb]

Someone referred to this ammo as garbage. I have been happy using the Heavy Coyote BB loads on Coyotes and am new to turkey hunting. Thought I would give these a try as well as some Win Long-beards. Am I wasting money trying the Hornady?

[Happy]

No. If it works for you then use it. I believe the turkey loads were what were being referenced. I never tried them personally but their marketing pictures of patterns where abysmal.

[Yoder409]

. Thought I would give these a try as well as some Win Long-beards. Am I wasting money trying the Hornady?

Yes.    Yes you are.

If you were gonna try the Win LBX shells, too.........   Save your time with the Hornady loads.

Very few instances where I'd tell someone NOT to try a turkey shell.   But this is one of them.

[TauntoHawk]

With turkey loads pattern is everything if you were making a list of efficient patterning loads they'd be pretty far down is probably what was ment by the post. The longbeards will shoot better I can almost garentee that

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[hobbes]

If you want conventional copper plated lead, Id recommend Winchester Supremes and forget the Hornady.  Winchester Lonbeards will out perform both, but can make it easy to miss close shots.

[Old Gobbler]

I wouldn't call them garbage. ..but I certainly would not call them advanced compared to other offerings , but if you patern them and know your limitations it will kill a turkey

I've seen a few posts about them when they were introduced,  and folks were having a difficult time trying to get them to pattern well

[Johnnemily]

Longbeard xr 15 a box at Wally World best lead load u can buy and that cost isn't much when u consider the money your spending on turkey hunting itself imho

[joey46]

If I'm not mistaken they used the old federal flight control wad that hates a ported choke. If you do buy them try a standard non-ported modified or full and go from there.  I haven't seen these on the self anywhere for a year or two.  Good luck.  BTW - I do like Hornady rifle ammo but this shotgun load may not have been their best effort.

[slicksbeagles1]

I tried them and did not like them there are better options

[Bowguy]

I agree w most of what's here I've never seen them pattern great. If you patterned it and stayed within its effective range pattern wise it'll kill a bird. I'd just not recommend that load. It's not one of the better ones imo

[Turk1]

I believe BB size shot is illegal in most states!

[Bowguy]

I believe BB size shot is illegal in most states!

I don't think anyone here uses bb for turkeys. Quite the opposite. He said bb for coyotes and I don't think the other B.B. references were actually meaning size.
No maybe I'm wrong the op might be asking about his coyote shells

[howl]

You can probably find posts of results by someone else with the same model gun you have. Save time and money.

[Spitten and drummen]

just get the long beards and dont look back. They pattern awesome in MOST guns and plain kill turkeys. Heard nothing but bad about the Hornady turkey loads.

[renegade19]

I bought a couple boxes because the price was very cheap.  They did not work well for me and I won't hunt with them.  Your gun, you never know.