I went to 20 gauge last year. Wish I would've done it years ago. With TSS it's a no brainer, just second guessing myself and wondering if I should've went .410...Sub-gauge gobblers are where it's at nowadays. Let's show them off.
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I went to 20 gauge last year. Wish I would've done it years ago. With TSS it's a no brainer, just second guessing myself and wondering if I should've went .410...Sub-gauge gobblers are where it's at nowadays. Let's show them off.
35 yards is a chip shot now for a 20ga with tungsten. It's crazy what ammo change will do as far as making a difference.I hunted turkey at a time when I only had a 20 gauge shotgun with a standard "full" choke (which patterned on the open side, barely better than most "MOD" chokes.
I bought a total of 10 rounds of good, expensive, 3" shells, shot 5 in pattern tests, and took it hunting.
Saw a turkey and called it in to what I estimated was 20 yards. It took a while: I probably first saw it at 60 yards distance.
Took the shot.
Bird started flopping around, wounded.
I stood up and shot again. Saw dust kick up all around it. It still flopped around in pain.
There was a barbed wire fence between me and it, and I could not rush over there to blast its head off from spitting distance, so I fired again from the same distance and finally it quit moving.
Before I left the field, I paced the distance from the bird to the fence, and then to the spot where I fired from.
It was really more like 35 yards. My distance estimation was way off, and not suitable for the gun and choke that I carried that day. If it were really 20 yds, things would have worked a lot better.
When I cleaned it, I found only 3 good pellet strikes near the center of its body, and a few minor wounds.
Apparently my pattern was as wide as a hula hoop.
It's only a handicap if you lack skill.I prefer not to handicap myself
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