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Originally Posted by Pete Lester
Your joking right?????
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Pete,
I'm talking about crippling. We've all killed stuff at great distances, but fifty on large game birds is chancing it. The NWTF reccomends 40 yards as the maximum ethical distance to take turkeys. Now crows I'd go sixty plus in the short ten.
An expert shot may kill every time at flying game at fifty yards with one and an eighth ounces of number 4s, but I can't and don't like to cripple. I've got no 10 Parkers with what I consider an extra full choke. Most around .035. I took a 3.5 inch Spanish ten double out Saturday with .045 in the left barrel. It shoots an ounce more shot than the average short ten load. How far is that good for? Fifty? Sixty? Off a bench yes.
I'll stick with my
opinion of forty and less is the ideal distance on game animals with a short ten full choke. When one tries to shoot at forty, one ends up shooting much farther every time. It's only natural to misjudge distances in the excitement of hunting.