The previous pellet gun turkey hunting threads are locked so I am starting this one because there is a ton of mis-information on this subject.1st off every state should legalize Pellet Gun Turkey Hunting.In California all small game is legal to take with your .20 or larger pellet gun.Check out my hunts on youtube under "Pellet Gun Turkey Hunting TV." I have found Pellet Guns to be more deadly than archery as long as you stay within 20 yards or so.I wounded several birds w my bow that I never found but I have never wounded one with my Pellet Gun.If you want to get more kids into hunting you need to legalize now.Also you can hunt closer to houses and neighborhoods without disturbing anyone where you could never use a shotgun.

"If you want to get more kids into hunting you need to legalize now.Also you can hunt closer to houses and neighborhoods without disturbing anyone where you could never use a shotgun." This makes a WHOLE lot of sense - California logic?

I grew up in rural Tennessee and only live in California because it is where my wife is from. But this is common sense man. Hunting turkeys with a pellet gun is more fun for a kid and just as deadly or more so than with your bow or shotgun. One of the gobblers I killed last year had shotgun pellets all in its chest when I ate it. Also,what is about other hunters attacking other hunters. We need to band together and fight the real enemy. If it is legal in your area to go with a cross bow and that wets your willy then I applaud you. As hunters we should support all legal and ethical hunting and Pellet guns are way more effective than even 5 years ago. Open up your mind or hunting will dissapear everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So it doesn't make sense to use a pellet rifle in areas where you can't use a shotgun. Some of us don't have the whole countryside to hunt and may only have permission in an area with houses. Maybe our kids are into Pellet Guns and love to hunt squirrels and such. What is wrong or illogical with that. You sir are one of those hunters that puts a bad name on hunting because you criticize the very thing you claim to promote. This is legal and ethical and will be approved in every state eventually so get used to it and deal with it.

I'm only making an edumacated guesstification here but I assume he thinks it's unethical to use a weapon on an animal that could only have marginal killing impact. In other words will it kill the turkey with a well placed shot...heck ya but what if its off even just a little bit. If a turkey can absorb a bad shot from a shotgun then that makes a pellet gun unethical IMO. Your right hunters need to stay together and keep what I believe is our right alive.

Thanks for the comments and I am telling you guys from experience of killing 4 birds with this Pellet gun that this is a very deadly and clean way to kill a turkey.Turkeys can't absorb head shots like chest shots.If you are even just a little off it equals to a clean miss with no wounded bird. If you are a little off with your bow it equals a wounded bird so why is Pellet Gun Turkey Hunting so unethical in a shotgun hunters eyes. Jealous. Bow hunting for Turkey is legal in every state and yet each year many birds are wounded but as we know it can also be very deadly. I found it is totally different with Pellet Rifles as I have missed several times but never wounded one and all the birds I hit all dropped in their tracks. The main thing is you have to stay within your effective range of 0-20 yards and that is what makes it so much more exciting. Shotgun hunters kill birds with just a couple of teeny tiny pellets to the head anyway and my .22 pellet is probably more lead in the head so why discriminate against a proven deadly method approved legal for hunting.

Texas airgun laws currently don't make any sense anyway. Texas will allow exotics, ferals, and non game species to be hunted with an airgun, but does not allow airguns for game animals, even small ones like squirrels. So this means you can hunt an Axis Deer with an airgun, as well as hogs, but you can't shoot a squirrel with one. Does that make any sense. Now I realize that the airguns approved in Texas for hogs and Axis deer are larger caliber but think of squirrel and turkey brains and you realize you don't need a 40 or 50 caliber airgun to kill it cleanly and ethically with one shot to the head from 10 yards out of a blind. On a squirrel you don't even need a head shot. A body shot with a .22 caliber pellet gun is deadly almost every time on squirrels. Give kids more opportunities to get out there and get excited about hunting. Change the law.

Realize that the original question that was locked was a drive by spammer who spun a phoney question to be able to slip a link into the Turkey forum. They had no real interest in hunting Turkeys with a pellet gun and was not posting from Texas. But I guess maybe it spawned some interesting dialog.

I don't know about that!

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I'm not saying it is but it did go through my mind this was a setup trying to get someone to say something silly about hunting with unethical means. Only cuz of topic and post#.

No matter what you guys say about it I not only don't think that Pellet Gun Turkey Hunting is unethical, I truly believe that it is one of the most deadly turkey hunting methods there is when done right and I have proven it to myself 4 times now. Making it legal in every state is a victory for hunting IMO. The more weapons we can approve for hunting the more hunters we will have. California and other states have proven it legal and ethical and very deadly for a decade now. The rumor is some rich guys in Napa pushed it through so they could whack Turkeys off of their grapes which are worth a lot more money as wine and not turkey food. Shotgun blasts destroy more grapes therefore Pellet rifles are best. The guys in Napa use thier fancy German high powered Pellet rifles but all you need in CA is any Pellet Gun of .20 caliber or larger to be legal. Turkeys are like pests in Napa fattened up on grapes.

I call BULL$HIT on this whole argument! Pellet guns SHOULD NOT be allowed for anything larger than a squirrel! DUDE I have shot turkeys with a 30-06 and because I missed the kill zone which is the size of a tennis ball the bird FLEW away! you sir have LOST YOUR MIND! Oh and as far as turkeys eating grapes either off the ground or off the vine that's BULL$HIT too! I was part of a region wide study 10 years ago with the NWTF. we placed over 100 game cameras in the vineyards and after 3 months of continuous monitoring NOT one single photo of turkeys eating grapes. The damage to the grapes was actually being done by racoons, skunks & coyotes! SO you might want to CHECK your facts before you open your mouth.

I am not aiming for vitals sir. Do you see anywhere on this thread where I said I take nothing but headshots DUDE!!!!!!!! I am strictly taking head shots and the fact that you are shooting an unapproved gun at turkeys and taking pop shots with your 30-06 tells me what kind of hunter you are. Not one I want to be in the woods with. You can't even realize what a deadly shot is or not. And as far as turkeys eating grapes they mainly eat them late in the season after they have matured and that is why they are so damaging. Do you live in Napa? Now, I call BS on you sir. And if you believe Pellet Guns should be allowed on squirrels you better not shoot one in Texas with your Pellet Gun because it is against the law in Texas. Probably because of idiot thinking like yours sir. Open up your mind and help hunting grow, don't kill it with your 3rd grade thinking.

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Go to youtube and put "Pellet Gun Turkey Hunting" in the search box. I have turned the comment section off because of idiot's like that last guy making DA comments that don't make any sense. How many times do I have to post that these are 10-15 yard head shots. What DA would use a 30-06 to shoot at a turkey to begin with. I would never aim for the body on a turkey with anything but archery equipment. And as far as the grapes thing I said that was the RUMOR I heard of guys in Napa but I know it is true from talking with Vineyard owners. I don't care if they eat the grapes or not. We have a serious turkey explosion out here in these towns and you can't hunt alot of these birds with shotguns due to the proximity of houses and Pellet Guns are the answer. Don't care what any of you think about it because it is legal, ethical, very deadly, more fun and challenging, and will be approved eventually in every state including Texas so learn to deal with us Pellet Gun Turkey Hunters because our numbers are growing by leaps and bounds. I have already started 10 new kids into the sport so deal with it.

HEY JACKASS go to the NWTF website and look up the study! THERE IS NO PROOF that wild turkeys are damaging vineyards it is all a bunch of BULL$hit drummed up by people like you and the wine growers! YOU SIR are DEAD WRONG! and as far as your statement about an UN-approved gun? well why don't you go and read the TEXAS HUNTING regulations! it is PERFECTLY legal to hunt turkeys in Texas with a RIFLE. So it may be legal in your "F"d up state of California to hunt with a pea shooter but it ain't legal here in Texas!

It will be legal soon enough. And as far as name calling on this fine forum, I thought that was beyond the limit. I am just trying to promote my favorite LEGAL form of hunting. Pellet Gun Turkey Hunting is approved in other states too. I knew I would run into guys like you that quit school in the first grade and have a brain the size of a turkeys but that does not discourage us sir. Your backwards thinking is part of the problem we have in this country regarding hunting. In my opinion, you sir are like cancer to hunting. Legal Hunters should not be attacking other legal hunters. ANd if what you say is true. that you can take pop shots at turkeys with your rifle that is a truly messed up law and the law should be changed. Why anyone would shoot a 30-06 at a turkey's vitals is beyond stupid. If you hit it there would not be hardly anything left. What kind of hunter are you sir? You can't even look logic in the eye.

Pellet firearms for turkey hunting should be banned everywhere. Pellet for squirrel in Texas ... Yes but not legal yet. Pellet for hares and rabbits in Texas ... Yes. In Texas you can use all forms of archery and firearms for turkeys during the fall season. California is a strange sanctuary state that legalizes pot but wants to ban guns. Do you hunt centerfire for larger game? I guess pellet rifles are next in line to be banned/registered in CA.

Guys be civil or the Mods will send you to banned camp. Remember there are youth hunters reading this forum also.

Any legal and ethical hunting is good and this is a proven deadly method. Not trying to replace any form of hunting just adding to it and making it different for other people who don't want to use a bow or shotgun. I agree that California is a weird state but at least they have the forethought to expand hunting opportunities for kids and adults that love Airguns. And make no mistake that hunting is strong out here in California. We have a lot more hunters than anybody can imagine and we are not going to let hunting die or have the anti's take away our rights. Approving Pellet Gun hunting is not the first step to banning all guns. It makes hunter numbers stronger and gives us more voices and gets more kids into hunting. How can that be a bad thing? God knows we need more future hunters or we are all in trouble and our hunting rights will be taken away if we don't band together and promote all legal hunting.

[ I was part of a region wide study 10 years ago with the NWTF. we placed over 100 game cameras in the vineyards and after 3 months of continuous monitoring NOT one single photo of turkeys eating grapes. The damage to the grapes was actually being done by racoons, skunks & coyotes! SO you might want to CHECK your facts before you open your mouth. [/quote]

You need to google some of the stories on the internet from the vineyard owners point of view recently, not 10 years ago in some bogus study. Turkeys may not be the main culprit in damage to grapes in vineyards but they sure can wreck a crop in late August and early September just before the harvest. You sir do not own a vineyard in California so I don't see how you could possibly know what is going on out here with the current turkey explosion and the crop damage. Come on out and I will take you to the vineyards and show you the damage they can do. Maybe you could even pop one with your 30-06. You would probably miss though. Sounds like you aren't a very good marksman.

Do not start another one of these threads.