Any fellow THF'ers get drawn for the Turkey hunt this April? If you have been before or have any advice on this hunt please PM me.

I need to find some 12 gauge non-toxic turkey loads. If you have any for sale please pm me as well. I am in Dallas.

When I was in Bass Pro the other day they had TSS turkey shot shells in 12, 20 and 410. You could also use a premium waterfowl rounds.

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1019776962?pid=698687

Midway USA has nontoxic TSS Turkey shot in stock.

Thank you very much Erny. I found some non-toxic at Scheels - they were shot size 9 but Tungsten. Got them in case I don't find any others.

You have to be careful with that TSS - they had tons of it there however they don't state non-tox and on the side they have a lead warning. On the TSS they have in stock at Scheels it was 5,6,7 - 5's are copper coated lead, 6's are lead, and 7's are tungsten - pretty misleading if you ask me but it looks like the link you provided is non-toxic.

It was Federal TSS 3rd Degree that I am referencing. I got a call back from Federal - TSS is non toxic but TSS 3rd dgree is 60%lead and 40%TSS.

I'd take the time to walk as much of the 11,700 acres as I could find a map for. When I was still living up there pre April of 2016, I joined a Bluebird Restoration Program to learn all I could about the where the critters were. From my foggy memory .....I'd go past the bridge just west of the HQ and past the north-south road if the gate is open, park where possible and hike as far west & south as possible looking for sign. There is a trail that runs south from the main road before you get to the HQ parking area that had several small feeder trails off of it too, mostly to the west the further back you get where the ground get almost hilly.

I would not waste my time north of the low water crossing, just north of the HQ unless you can figure out how to get as far east as possible past, only if the gate on the right just before you hit the low water crossing is open. We planted bird houses back there in quite a few places but that area was usually not open to the public back then.

Hagerman...God what a place and one of the few places I miss most from my 11 years of living on the water @ Texoma days 1/2 way up the peninsula, facing Little Mineral Arm. Even the BH sez she'll try to move back somewhere close enough to fish off the bank in front of the old house when I'm gone. Our last time to fish up there was when the movers were packing the tiny house, and walked down the hill to the busted up ramp just south of the Elks Club property line. I put almost 35/40lbs of striper fillets in the freezer that afternoon...and ran a dozen or more strangers off the locked boathouse in the creek to the south. Onje thing I don't miss is having to sit on my front porch with a shotgun and my overhead Porch light on me ...to keep the drunks & stoner's from driving across my yard.
Ah Texoma has it's +'s & -'s for sure.
Ron