Vital Zone Target — Wild Turkey

The only sheet here whose zone is not behind a shoulder. A turkey's body is feathers over a small cavity and absorbs shot without a clean kill, so the head and upper neck are the aiming point and the rest of the bird is not.

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Sheet · A4 portrait, 210 × 297 mm

How to use it

  1. Print at 100% and check the 100 mm bar before using any dimension.
  2. The circle is wider than the neck on purpose. It is the pattern that has to land there, not the outline of what you are hitting — which is why turkey is patterned rather than zeroed.
  3. Pattern at the range you will actually shoot. A load that puts enough pellets in the circle at 25 m may not at 40.
  4. Body shots are not ethical on turkey. If the head and neck are not clear, there is no shot.

Dimensions on this sheet

MeasurementValue
Vital zone127 mm (5")
On this sheet19.1 mm
Body, full size900 x 1000 mm
Scale1:6.7

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