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Maximum range?? Given the right conditions what is your maximum range you will attempt a shot?
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Probably 40 yards, give or take a yard or two. I've rarely had to take a shot that long though as most shots that I've taken over the years have probably averaged around 20-25 yards or so. That seems to be the optimum range for me anyway.
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Are you using a 3.5" or 3" shell?
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I usualy use some hot 2 3/4" reloads that I have been loading. Have never seen the need for anything hotter, and have never shot a bird over 30 yards. In fact I have killed 2 birds with 2 3/4" factort trap loads.
I think this is an old thread but I shoot a 20 Ga Mossberg with a undertaker choke. I have a scope and have the cross hairs centered in the group. I have taken a gobbler at 40 yards but 35 is what I consider my max. On the forty yard shot I misjudged the range but the turkey went down right there. I use No. 4 shot but may change to No. 5 to increase pellet numbers.
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For many years I hunted turkey with an old Double Barrel Stevens loaded with #5 Remington 3" Nitro Express. I always limited my shots to 35 yards and never had a problem knocking one over.
Now I hunt them with a black powder shotgun and limit my shots to 25 yards because it is a 20 gauge (.62 caliber smoothbore).
All this is going to change though. I just ordered a 12 gauge extra full choke barrel for my Thompson Center New Englander. They claim this is an easy 40 yard gun. Time will tell.
With what you're shooting I would think a 35-40 yard shot would not be impossible. Best thing to do is set some card board boxes up and check your pattern at different distances. Also hang a tin can inside the box, like what you get vegetable in. If the shot penetrates that can, it will kill a turkey, or at least penetrate him. You have to place the shot.
Now I hunt them with a black powder shotgun and limit my shots to 25 yards because it is a 20 gauge (.62 caliber smoothbore).
All this is going to change though. I just ordered a 12 gauge extra full choke barrel for my Thompson Center New Englander. They claim this is an easy 40 yard gun. Time will tell.
With what you're shooting I would think a 35-40 yard shot would not be impossible. Best thing to do is set some card board boxes up and check your pattern at different distances. Also hang a tin can inside the box, like what you get vegetable in. If the shot penetrates that can, it will kill a turkey, or at least penetrate him. You have to place the shot.
