Any review, use, or dissemination of this e-mail message and any attached file(s) in any form outside of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives or the Department of Justice without express authorization is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain Sensitive But Unclassified information that may be statutorily or otherwise prohibited from being released without appropriate approval. NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attached files are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above in connection with official business. It is OK from a GCA/NFA standpoint, but he may want to consider liability/product safety before doing that. Subject: RE: Slam Fire/Pump Action Question Louisville Field Division/Louisville II (IO) Field Office Should you need any additional information or assistance, please do not hesitate to contact this office or your local WV office at 30.Д«ureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives To help redress that oversight, here are 25 great turkey guns from colonial times to the sporting guns of the present day.I contacted ATFвЂ™s Firearms Technology Branch to get an answer to your question per our telephone discussion this morning. That may explain why there is no one accepted вЂњclassicвЂќ turkey gun, or even a short list. Nevertheless there was a gap of about 50-75 years of the 20th century during which turkey hunting and turkey guns were unknown to the majority of American hunters. Restoration efforts in the latter half of the century brought them back in the numbers we have today. Turkeys were an important source of food and sport until overhunting and forest clearing in the 19th and early 20th century wiped them out of all but the most remote woods. _People have been shooting turkeys with guns since the first Europeans arrived on this continent and found the birds to be plentiful, tasty and not particularly (at first anyway) wary. The receiver comes grooved for an included scope base. The Xtrema2 makes this list with the original recipe Xtrema does not because one of its improvements over the first Xtrema is a greatly improved trigger pull, which is important to successful turkey shooting. The Xtrema2 is also very reliable and soft-shooting, especially if choose the Kick-Off optional recoil reducer. One of its best features is an action spring on the magazine tube, meaning you never have to take the spring out of the stock to clean it. 75 caliber flintlock nearly 6 feet long.Д«eretta Xtrema 2 Beretta Xtrema 2 BerettaвЂ™s Xtrema was its first 3 ВЅ inch gun. It's likely if a Pilgrim wanted to shoot a turkey he would used a 'long fowler,' a. The short, bell-barreled shotgun was more often used as a weapon of war and loaded with large shot. Blunderbuss The classic turkey gun of the Pilgrims was not the blunderuss (meaning that more than Marilyn Monroe's shorts are historically inaccurate in this picture).

To help redress that oversight, here are 25 great turkey guns from colonial times to the sporting guns of the present day. That may explain why there is no one accepted 'classic' turkey gun or even a short list. Turkeys were an important source of food and sport until overhunting and forest clearing in the 19th and early 20th century wiped them out of all but the most remote woods before restoration efforts in the latter half of the century brought them back in the numbers we have today. People have been shooting turkeys with guns since the first Europeans arrived on this continent and found the birds to be plentiful, tasty and not particularly (at first anyway) wary.

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