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Why do turkey hunters miss/wound their gobbler?
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<blockquote data-quote="clwg97" data-source="post: 5295695" data-attributes="member: 18549"><p>I was a young and dumb kid once maybe 13 or 14... I was set up in the middle of a tree that had fallen over in the woods and the right side was the rootwad and had a bunch of dirt lifted up, and the left side was the tree top. I had a gobbler come in on my right side, I was carrying my grandpas 12 gauge 870 wingmaster with a fixed extra full turkey choke barrel on it. The gobbler came around from the right and dropped down in a little ditch and came out and locked up in full strut and wouldn't come all the way around front of me. I decided to try and shoot him left handed, I knocked him down and he got up and flew away never to be seen again. It made me sick to my stomach to think about it. I knew I had put pellets into him, but I had shot him about 8 yards and tried to do it left handed because I was too impatient. I have never tried it since and have had some hang up on my offhand side like that. Usually I will wait them out and they will work in eventually.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clwg97, post: 5295695, member: 18549"] I was a young and dumb kid once maybe 13 or 14... I was set up in the middle of a tree that had fallen over in the woods and the right side was the rootwad and had a bunch of dirt lifted up, and the left side was the tree top. I had a gobbler come in on my right side, I was carrying my grandpas 12 gauge 870 wingmaster with a fixed extra full turkey choke barrel on it. The gobbler came around from the right and dropped down in a little ditch and came out and locked up in full strut and wouldn't come all the way around front of me. I decided to try and shoot him left handed, I knocked him down and he got up and flew away never to be seen again. It made me sick to my stomach to think about it. I knew I had put pellets into him, but I had shot him about 8 yards and tried to do it left handed because I was too impatient. I have never tried it since and have had some hang up on my offhand side like that. Usually I will wait them out and they will work in eventually. [/QUOTE]
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