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trebling1958---
Please continue to offer your fine insight, anecdotal evidence and sage advice. This goes for all of you.
I am learning and enjoying and am certain that a great many others are as well.
Best,
John
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I might mention that most of us in the SouthEast have little choice on our turkey hunting guns. Tennesse law for instance states 20ga or larger with #4 shot or smaller, "NO Rifles Allowed", only other option being archery, now I have no quarrel with those who enjoy it, (more power to you Chuck) but Sticks & Strings, are just not my things. Therefore, if I hunt a turkey, Shotgun it is.
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Rumor has it a 20 guage 3 & 1/2" cartridge is in the works.
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A 3" 16 ga. would be much more practical than a 3.5" 20 ga. IMO, but I shoot 7/8 or 1 oz 2 9/16" shells in my 16's and these suit my purposes just fine!
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jOe, glad to hear you are staying in touch with reality....how many cases do you have on order? And agian, thanks for being SOOO constructive in your comments. "T" shot? Cameron, DUCK!!!! Mark WTF is LG.....never thought I'd say THAT! 
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John,
My friend is driving up from S. ID tomorrow for the turkey opener on Sunday. One and the same I mentioned earlier that hunts almost exclusively with a 20. If I can do my part by calling one in for him, and he does his part by shooting it, I'll try to post particulars as far as range it was taken, pellets on target, etc.
Again, he shoots 1 1/4 oz #4 lead reloads from a full choked 870 he's hunted with for thirty five years.
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The 3" 16ga was indeed man'fd at least as early as sometime in the 18xx's. Some yrs back, early 1970's as best as I recall, I was at a gun dealers & a man brought in a fired empty 3" 16ga he had picked up in the woods, a "Plastic" Rem Express, no less. Operating from memory but I recall the load marked on tube was 3de-1½oz #7½. Fortunately they didn't catch on. Why ruin the perfect upland gun, when we already have the 12's??
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775...I don't any have intentions of taking a knife to a gun fight.
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I think some imagine their favorite guns in the spring turkey woods.
The real trick of the sport is calling - can't call worth a hang you say? Well bring a pea shooter, it'll make no difference then!
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HJoe, I would suggest 9x19 'Polizei-Selbstlade Pistole' with Federal Classic 115gr 'Hi-Shok' JHP.  The 1911 or one of it's clones is too slow into action, and single action 6-shooter? Lets just say; nostalgia can be deadly! 
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