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Originally Posted by Robin Lewis
After attending for a few years the rules changed. Shooters could not use their own shells and when they paid for a position at the line, the "official" would give them the shell they had to shoot. It seemed that someone was caught putting something in their shot shell that held the pellets together longer, placing more concentrated pellets on the plate.... giving them a better chance to win.
The talk around town was that people would put molasses, or some kind of thick goo in the shell. I have no idea if its local BS or not, but to this day, when I get back "home", they still hand out shells at turkey shoots.
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A guy I worked with attended a lot of turkey shoots. They were shooting Federal paper shells. He wanted an advantage over the 1 1/8 ounce #9 shells and asked if I could help. I loaded 1 1/2 ounces of #9 for him, and you could not tell by looking at the paper Federal. He would pocket the shell given to him and put my load in. Needless to say, his gun was quite loud and had a lot of recoil compared to the others. I don't know if he won but I'm sure they caught on to him.
The new Winchesters have a resin holding the shot at the back of the shot column, supposedly to keep them cushioned and keeping the shot from being deformed. I killed a turkey with the 3" shells this spring. But they only have 1 3/4 ounce compared to the 2 ounce maximum you can get in the 3". I watched a video on you tube and the Winchesters beat the Hevi-shots at 60 yards, even though less shot. Shell construction, wad, shot size, buffer do make a difference. I've found a lot of the large gauge guns shoot bigger size shot better than they do the smaller shot for some reason I don't know. I can get as many 4s in the target as I can 6s at the same distance.
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