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Don't Stretch Your Barrel


When you hear a turkey hunting tale where the shooting range is 50 yards or more, you might want to take it with a grain of salt.
With today's super-tight turkey chokes and highly developed ammunition, we have added some reliable range to modern turkey hunting. Once, 30 yards or a bit more was considered the "average" practical limit for most guns and loads. Today, if you seriously pattern to find the right combination of choke and load, a reliable 40-yard turkey gun is quite possible.
However, most of even the best patterns begin to suffer at 45 yards and are skimpy at 50 -- usually too skimpy to be really reliable for a clean kill. Of course, you will continue to hear of kills at 60 yards and beyond because one lucky pellet happened to hit in the right place. Don't count on that happening on a regular basis, but do count on wounding a lot of gobblers if you try to shoot too far.

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