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<blockquote data-quote="utvolsfan77" data-source="post: 5317244" data-attributes="member: 14847"><p>My Mossberg 835 is a factory turkey special that came in a mossy oak camo hydro-dipped finish with a 24" barrel. One day while hunting during the 2014 spring turkey season, I had a coyote come prancing by at about 10 yards out. Knowing how badly I despise those poult/fawn killers, I was naturally curious as to what kind of punishment a 12 gauge 3 1/2" load of copper plated 5-shot would inflict upon a coyote. Apparently, I was also totally unaware of how much rearward pressure I had on the gun because when I squeezed the trigger and shot the coyote, we both did a bang flop! lol</p><p></p><p>I had patterned the gun earlier in the year and knew it carried more recoil than any of my other shotguns, but I'd never experienced recoil quite like that before. I'm a rifle guy and knew I had a good cheek weld but was unaware I had applied so much rearward pressure on that gun. When I squeezed the trigger, my cheek weld recoiled rearward so hard and fast that it felt like it fractured my jaw. And the top of my shooting hand flew rearward so quickly that I bloodied my own damn nose. lol Elmer Fudd would have been proud! </p><p></p><p>Needless to say, that's the last time I turkey hunted with that gun and it's been sitting in the safe ever since. Heck, I might need to pull it and the rifled slug barrel out of my gun safe and put it up for sale.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="utvolsfan77, post: 5317244, member: 14847"] My Mossberg 835 is a factory turkey special that came in a mossy oak camo hydro-dipped finish with a 24" barrel. One day while hunting during the 2014 spring turkey season, I had a coyote come prancing by at about 10 yards out. Knowing how badly I despise those poult/fawn killers, I was naturally curious as to what kind of punishment a 12 gauge 3 1/2" load of copper plated 5-shot would inflict upon a coyote. Apparently, I was also totally unaware of how much rearward pressure I had on the gun because when I squeezed the trigger and shot the coyote, we both did a bang flop! lol I had patterned the gun earlier in the year and knew it carried more recoil than any of my other shotguns, but I'd never experienced recoil quite like that before. I'm a rifle guy and knew I had a good cheek weld but was unaware I had applied so much rearward pressure on that gun. When I squeezed the trigger, my cheek weld recoiled rearward so hard and fast that it felt like it fractured my jaw. And the top of my shooting hand flew rearward so quickly that I bloodied my own damn nose. lol Elmer Fudd would have been proud! Needless to say, that's the last time I turkey hunted with that gun and it's been sitting in the safe ever since. Heck, I might need to pull it and the rifled slug barrel out of my gun safe and put it up for sale. [/QUOTE]
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