Wanna see me whiff twice on a Turkey? Ya it happened, but the third shot standing offhand was probably my most EPIC hunting shot ever in my life and I caught it all on video.
The FX Redback is an outside-of-the-box approach to airgun hunting gear and the 8-shot capacity helped put a bird in my freezer and taught me the valuable lesson of being patient and waiting till the Turkey gets into your decoys. This video was super fun to make and I hope you enjoy it too!
If you don’t live in an Airgun arrow legal state for hunting, I’ve got a crazy Airgun mod for YOU! I modded this Airgun to double as a shotgun!
For arrows, it’s one of the most powerful arrow airguns I’ve ever shot, but with the shotgun mod I came up with, I’d call it a 20 yards and closer Turkey gun. 20 yards should be a chip shot right? Well with the new Serpent Arms Airgun shotgun shells they hold a crazy tight pattern out to 20 yards and at 8 yards the pattern is the size of a golf ball.
Turkey hunting with airgun shotguns is all about headshots as their heart/lung are so small and shotgun shot at this power level has a hard time penetrating all that feather. Head and neck shots put them down right away and if you don’t hit them in the right spot, they just keep on running. But who misses at that close of range with a shotgun?
If you want to see some of the best hunting fails get on YouTube and look up Turkey hunting fails and misses. The Michael Waddell Whiff Turkey hunting video was one of my favorites so I knew even some of the greatest hunters miss sometimes. (Foreshadowing)
Some of the funniest shenanigans happen with Turkey and you just have the laugh and learn when it happens to you, because it will. I’ve missed a few in my hunting career with archery equipment, but never a shotgun, but there is always a first for everything I guess.
If you want to watch me WHIFF at a running Turkey TWICE and then drill it with a standing offhand shot on the third attempt, this video will be entertaining for you. All I can say is thank GOD for the FX Redback follow-up shots and that I didn’t need all 8.