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Why do turkey hunters miss/wound their gobbler?
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<blockquote data-quote="Setterman" data-source="post: 5294291" data-attributes="member: 8139"><p>Great post Steve. I was a weird one as for the majority of my turkey career I rarely if ever missed. If they came to me they died. At that time I shot either an 870 or a Browning BPS both choked with a Kicks Choke tube that were fairly open by today's standards. I always shot beads and had no issues</p><p></p><p>fast forward from those years to 2013 when I purchased a SBE2 with the steady grip stock. i shot the same loads and choke combo and the gun patterned great. However I missed 5 birds in a row with it. I noticed after the final miss that a tree behind the gobbler about 3 feet higher than his head was wrecked. It was then I understood I wasn't keeping my head down with the different stock. I switched to a Fast Fire sight and haven't had many issues since.</p><p></p><p>when I switched last year to TSS I would've missed a bunch of I followed the recommended choke constriction so many choose. But putting it on paper and realizing I didn't need nor want a 60+ yard gun saved me some heartache.</p><p></p><p>I remain baffled why so many want a turkey gun that puts the entire pattern in a pie plate at 40 yards. And I also wonder how many of those folks shoot their gun at 15, or 20 yards. They'd be shocked at the golf ball sized pattern they're slinging.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Setterman, post: 5294291, member: 8139"] Great post Steve. I was a weird one as for the majority of my turkey career I rarely if ever missed. If they came to me they died. At that time I shot either an 870 or a Browning BPS both choked with a Kicks Choke tube that were fairly open by today’s standards. I always shot beads and had no issues fast forward from those years to 2013 when I purchased a SBE2 with the steady grip stock. i shot the same loads and choke combo and the gun patterned great. However I missed 5 birds in a row with it. I noticed after the final miss that a tree behind the gobbler about 3 feet higher than his head was wrecked. It was then I understood I wasn’t keeping my head down with the different stock. I switched to a Fast Fire sight and haven’t had many issues since. when I switched last year to TSS I would’ve missed a bunch of I followed the recommended choke constriction so many choose. But putting it on paper and realizing I didn’t need nor want a 60+ yard gun saved me some heartache. I remain baffled why so many want a turkey gun that puts the entire pattern in a pie plate at 40 yards. And I also wonder how many of those folks shoot their gun at 15, or 20 yards. They’d be shocked at the golf ball sized pattern they’re slinging. [/QUOTE]
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