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Know your gun before you go

Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Mar 16, 2000 Start Page:12.C Section:Outdoors Camp talk. Humbug, except that this one was a little more serious than the weeks just before the last deer season. It was spring – really late winter – and its a time akin to baseball’s Hot Stove League. You know about

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Safety should be first priority for turkey hunters

Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Mar 25, 1999 Start Page:1.C Section:Outdoors  Right about now there are thousands of Louisianians for whom Saturday morning won’t get here quick enough. They are turkey hunters, and Saturday’s season opener in State Areas A and C are as long-awaited a date as any on the hunting calendar.

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Forcing the issue *** Modifying cone improves shot patterns

Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Nov 9, 1997 Start Page:20.C Section:OUTDOORS   Skeet and trap shooters have known about its effects for years. Turkey hunters, a group that searches for longer, tighter shotgun patterns with the same zeal as Sir Gawain’s quest for the Holy Grail, believe it gives them an advantage in

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Talkin’ Turkey: Getting on target *** Preparing shotgun for season important task *** Forcing Cones

ttuAdvocate – Baton Rouge, La. Date: Feb 27, 1997 Start Page: 10.D Section: Outdoors   TALKING TURKEY SERIES All shotguns have a cone-shaped wedge in front of the chamber that “forces” the shot into gun’s barrel when the shell is fired. Hence the name “forcing cone.” Forged in the factory, most of these cones are

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Talkin’ Turkey: Getting on target *** Preparing shotgun for season important task

  Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author: JOE MACALUSO Date: Feb 27, 1997 Start Page: 10.D Section: Outdoors     TALKING TURKEY SERIES Editor’s note: This is the second in a weekly series of stories to help hunters get ready for the spring turkey season. Mention turkey hunters and all David Reynerson can do is

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