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Why do turkey hunters miss/wound their gobbler?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bgoodman30" data-source="post: 5294383" data-attributes="member: 18480"><p>The worst thing I ever did in my turkey hunting career was picked up a wretched Mossberg 835 from a pawn shop because I was tired of the 28" barrel on my Benelli that doubled as a duck gun.. I missed a bird right out in the open and my buddy asked "did you pattern your gun"? Nope never had because I had never missed before... I patterned it that day and it was shooting a foot high.. Actually called a bird to 25 yards aimed low and missed again the same day.. Borrowed his 870 and killed one an hour later.. Then I went on a patterning binge with the 835 and 3.5 TSS and everything in between and that's when the flinch began... Honestly missed close to 20 turkeys after I bought that gun it about drove me crazy.. Not only did the 835 make me flinch but the misses started to give me target panic and I would rush the shot... I have probably missed for every reason there is.. After trying a Winchester SXS and problem persisting I settled on a Benelli 20GA with red dot and finally getting dialed in. I killed a lot of birds in between but I had to really work on it getting the right pattern, breathing, counting to 3, squeeze dead bird..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bgoodman30, post: 5294383, member: 18480"] The worst thing I ever did in my turkey hunting career was picked up a wretched Mossberg 835 from a pawn shop because I was tired of the 28" barrel on my Benelli that doubled as a duck gun.. I missed a bird right out in the open and my buddy asked "did you pattern your gun"? Nope never had because I had never missed before... I patterned it that day and it was shooting a foot high.. Actually called a bird to 25 yards aimed low and missed again the same day.. Borrowed his 870 and killed one an hour later.. Then I went on a patterning binge with the 835 and 3.5 TSS and everything in between and that's when the flinch began... Honestly missed close to 20 turkeys after I bought that gun it about drove me crazy.. Not only did the 835 make me flinch but the misses started to give me target panic and I would rush the shot... I have probably missed for every reason there is.. After trying a Winchester SXS and problem persisting I settled on a Benelli 20GA with red dot and finally getting dialed in. I killed a lot of birds in between but I had to really work on it getting the right pattern, breathing, counting to 3, squeeze dead bird.. [/QUOTE]
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