Duck gun for turkeys

[Gerald]

I second the Winchester Long Beard shells.

I tried several different shells and only got about 70 pellets in a 10" dia circle at 40 yards. This is not very good, but shot that for several years and killed a few turkey.

Then 2 years ago, I hit a turkey at about 40 yards, but it flew off.

I then bought some 3.5" Long Beards after reading several good reports.

Here is the results with the same gun and choke that only got ~ 70 pellets in the target.

I also made one "change" to my shotgun before shooting the Long beard shells. I polished the barrel. I have read that doing this can make a big difference [5% to 25% depending on how dirty the barrel is] in how the gun patterns. My shotgun barrel was very shinny when I finished.
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