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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5316338" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>For sure.</p><p></p><p>Also, most shotguns do not have the tighter tolerances between receivers and barrels as do most rifles. If your optical sight is receiver mounted on either a typical pump action or autoloading shotgun, you may never actually get it perfect due to the "play" between the receiver & barrel.</p><p></p><p>When fine-tuning your turkey gun with the hunting load, it may be better to hold the gun exactly as you typically would when shooting at a turkey while hunting.</p><p></p><p>As with rifle rounds, shotgun patterns do not impact the same spot(s) with each round fired. You may be doing well just to get pattern centers consistently hitting either 2 or 3 inches left to 2 or 3 inches right from from one round to the next. Same for the up & down, and there is considerable trajectory drop from 40 to 55 yds. All this just adds to why it may not be high-odds to take those longer range shots, even when the gun "patterns" ok, say at 50 yds.</p><p></p><p>If you want to see a real revelation, pattern test your 40-yd sighted in gun at 60 yds, but do so on different days under different conditions. Your pattern center may be all over the place, and not at your aim point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5316338, member: 1409"] For sure. Also, most shotguns do not have the tighter tolerances between receivers and barrels as do most rifles. If your optical sight is receiver mounted on either a typical pump action or autoloading shotgun, you may never actually get it perfect due to the "play" between the receiver & barrel. When fine-tuning your turkey gun with the hunting load, it may be better to hold the gun exactly as you typically would when shooting at a turkey while hunting. As with rifle rounds, shotgun patterns do not impact the same spot(s) with each round fired. You may be doing well just to get pattern centers consistently hitting either 2 or 3 inches left to 2 or 3 inches right from from one round to the next. Same for the up & down, and there is considerable trajectory drop from 40 to 55 yds. All this just adds to why it may not be high-odds to take those longer range shots, even when the gun "patterns" ok, say at 50 yds. If you want to see a real revelation, pattern test your 40-yd sighted in gun at 60 yds, but do so on different days under different conditions. Your pattern center may be all over the place, and not at your aim point. [/QUOTE]
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