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Originally Posted by Dean Romig
That's an intriguing concept - "constrictor" loads. Is there such a load available, or a 'component' that will allow us to load our own?
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When I was a kid and my dad took me to the fire hall for the annual turkey shoot, I would hear storied along those lines. A turkey shoot back then was 25 paper plates stapled to a board some yards away from the firing line. Each plate had an "x", in light pencil, somewhere near the center of the plate. Shooters would buy a position on the line for a buck or two and fire their shotgun at their designated plate. The plate with a hole nearest the "x" won a turkey.
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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