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Why do turkey hunters miss/wound their gobbler?
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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5294260" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>For me, it was simply because I was too inexperienced to know to pattern my shotgun. When I started turkey hunting back in 1989 at the age of 18, I just wrongly assumed that a shotgun would kill anything you aimed at. And it did good job of that on the first 3 or 4 turkeys I shot. Then I rolled one over, he got back up and started running... emptied the autoloader and recovered him.. then another that rolled and went unrecoverable. Then another rolled and I emptied the gun at him and he kept running after 5 shots. Fortunately, I chased him into a woven wired fence and clubbed him with a log to recover him.</p><p></p><p>A few more kills, a few more 'misses', and I just couldn't figure out why my results were so unpredictable. Until I finally patterened my gun... perfect donut pattern with the center of the pattern completely blown out. Tried different chokes, different shotshells, and never found anything that produced a satisfactory pattern... retired that 3in 12g and switched to a 3.5in 10g and never looked back for the next 20 years... until 5 or 6y ago.</p><p></p><p>My other misses were on birds that were too close. But those were clean misses, .. no harm no foul.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5294260, member: 2805"] For me, it was simply because I was too inexperienced to know to pattern my shotgun. When I started turkey hunting back in 1989 at the age of 18, I just wrongly assumed that a shotgun would kill anything you aimed at. And it did good job of that on the first 3 or 4 turkeys I shot. Then I rolled one over, he got back up and started running... emptied the autoloader and recovered him.. then another that rolled and went unrecoverable. Then another rolled and I emptied the gun at him and he kept running after 5 shots. Fortunately, I chased him into a woven wired fence and clubbed him with a log to recover him. A few more kills, a few more 'misses', and I just couldn't figure out why my results were so unpredictable. Until I finally patterened my gun... perfect donut pattern with the center of the pattern completely blown out. Tried different chokes, different shotshells, and never found anything that produced a satisfactory pattern... retired that 3in 12g and switched to a 3.5in 10g and never looked back for the next 20 years... until 5 or 6y ago. My other misses were on birds that were too close. But those were clean misses, .. no harm no foul. [/QUOTE]
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