© By Othmar Vohringer
The essence of turkey hunting is up close and personal. A turkey hunting buddy of mine had to experience that just last week. One of the most common reasons for hit turkeys escaping or been missed altogether is caused by miss judging the distance and the urge to shoot to far.
With turkey hunters constantly seeking to gain longer shooting distances, to make up for the lack of calling skills or simply because they don’t want to work harder to get the bird closer, an increasing number of hunters will do anything to beef their gun up to obtain an extra few yards in shooting distance. Hence the use of 3 ½ -inch super magnum loads stuffed into 12-gauge and even 10-gauge guns equipped with super tight chocks, all in an effort to be able to “reach out there and touch ‘em”.
