Page 2 of 6 - Winchester 12GA Long Beard Lok'd Reviews

I have been a turkey hunter for over 40 years & hunt up to 6 states per year. These shotgun shells are simply the best turkey shells on the market for the price, unless you want to go with TSS which is a whole different category of performance & cost. My only problem is that I have not been able to find them anywhere the past 2 years in size 6 shot.

Been shooting these 12ga 3" #5 2oz. Turkey loads for a long time with devastating results. I was disappointed to learn the 2oz was no longer available so I bought 3 boxes of the 1 3/4oz. I've killed turkeys from 5 to 59yds.i hope the results stay the same. I don't think they will disappoint. Looking forward to pattern results.

I will post photos of patterns, I shoot a winchester SX4 with Carlson .655 the snow bird was shot at 57 yards.

I've killed an absolute boat load of birds with these Loads....if you can't absolutely destroy one anywhere inside 60 yards, you probably need to either check you nerves or your equipment.........amazing knockdown power !

Performs even better than expected! 25 straight gobbler kills from 5 yds out to 65 yds! My Remington 870 Super Mag with my Gobblin Thunder choke loves these loads!

Unlike previous data charts the velocity and energy levels at varying distances is not presented.

I had a delay fire while turkey hunting. The gun went click first as I pulled it down to pump it went off weakly. This is dangerous and cost me a turkey. I'll provide pictures of the inside of the shell the primer is completely rusted over and it burnt the outside of the shell.

Had a delayed fire while hunting this morning. The gun went click first then as I pulled it down to pump it it went off. It sounded weak as well. After looking into it the inside of the primer was rusted over and I'm sure the powder was wet to. This was very scary. I'll add photo of the primer and the burnt shell. These shells should be water tight.

I have been using XR 3.5” #6 (magnum) out of a Stoeger M3500 Turkey and Carlson’s XR .650 choke for the past two seasons. Killed 3 birds ranging from 10-45 yards. Every bird was stone dead. My only complaint is not being able to find it ANYWHERE today.

The first year I was very impressed. But the following year (last year) I could have hit the side of a barn?I'm shooting a Mossberg 835 ultramag Indian Creek .675. The first year I killed three birds,last year 0. I missed 2 birds the first was at 34 yards. I aim at the waddles he was facing me an it was like I was shooting blanks. I didn't find a feather I did find my wad an there was very little of it left. He was standing in front of a huge hemlock tree and I didn't find any pellets in the tree or saplings in and around the area? The second bird I'll admit I was very nervous because of what had happened the week before. This Tom comes in from my left side in full strut,drumming,an spitting! He mounted my decoy really neat hunt that ended in a miss at 20 yards! I looked for the bird for over an hour. I knew there was no way I missed. But I found my was an it had white powder in it with pellets still packed in this white powder? These are shells that were purchased this year. So these are not old shells,well they might be but I bought them this season. I guess I have no choice but to change shells,they had a great shell from Federal but they stopped making them. It NO FUN putting in all of the work, scouting,hours in the woods to have it all end in failure that you could not in control of!!