While it seems “cool” to shoot a Turkey with such a smallbore shotgun, care must be taken by the individual hunter to make sure that they are hunting ethically and only take very close shots. Here in New Hampshire (and in Maine also) it is illegal to hunt wild turkeys with anything smaller than a twenty gauge shotgun, and no shot larger than #2. I personally think this is a well thought out regulation, aimed at assuring to the best of our ability, that we cleanly and as humainly as possible dispatch the bird. This question was brought up during my 13 tenure as a Fish and Game Commissioner here in NH and both the biologists and law enforcement divisions were in strict opposition to changing the regulation. I agreed.
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