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im stickin with 3s! like an old mentor of mine said if you cant get within 30 yds you aint much of a hunter anyway! 
LGE-VM510 NetFront/3.5.1 (GUI) MMP/2.0
LGE-VM510 NetFront/3.5.1 (GUI) MMP/2.0
you start to loose knock down power with in a foot of your gun ..now a days with the turkey loads they make ..will put down a bird at 60 to 70 yards easy ..dead coyote 3.5 will kill a coyote at 80 yards.. so why would it not kill a turkey at 80 yards ??? and the 40 yard deal was made up way back when the turkey loads may of killed a bird from that far ..and yes everyone likes to get the toms close to them but in reailty it does not always happen like we like it to ..and any turkey hunter knows that ..i have shoot turkeys at 65 yards with no criples. heres one that i shot at 65 yards ..Please!!!!! Forget about the 50 yard shots! First of all, The standard is a minimum of 100 pellets in a 10 inch circle at any range. Once you reach 40 yards the energy level drops off so much that killing a bird is really an iffy proposition. If your using heavy than lead loads you have a little more wiggle room. With lead loads your #6 loses energy way too fast to be extending beyond 40 yards, if you drop to #4 you won't have enough pellets left to give you a good pattern. I used to receive the gobbling survey from West Va, they always had a lot of good survey questions and one I remember was at what range did you kill your bird, and if you didn't recover a bird, what range was that?
Avg kill-26 yds
Avg wounding-38 yds
What we are talking about is not unlike bowhunting, with all the advancements there are a lot of deer shot beyond 30 yards.....but there are a lot wounded also.
You will cripple far more than you kill shooting at 60+ yards with lead. It's tough keeping your pattern together for that long. Sure you can body slam them at 60 yards with hevi shot coyote, but IMO that defeats the entire purpose.you start to loose knock down power with in a foot of your gun ..now a days with the turkey loads they make ..will put down a bird at 60 to 70 yards easy ..dead coyote 3.5 will kill a coyote at 80 yards.. so why would it not kill a turkey at 80 yards ??? and the 40 yard deal was made up way back when the turkey loads may of killed a bird from that far ..and yes everyone likes to get the toms close to them but in reailty it does not always happen like we like it to ..and any turkey hunter knows that ..i have shoot turkeys at 65 yards with no criples. heres one that i shot at 65 yards ..
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look at his head thats with 3.5 in 5s 65 yards so yes it can be done ..but everyones is different ..oh and by the way i worked on this bird for 2 weeks before i took a long shot..
Ha its funny u said this just the other day was shootin my gun with some 3-1/2 and the next day part of my tooth that i had root canaled last year fell out!!! I'm sticking with 3 inchYea, those 3 1/2's will knock the fillings out of your teeth. I shoot a 2 3/4 mag with no regrets.![]()