Winchester 3" #6's... A couple shots were even further than that... but I hesitate to write down the numbers... the hunting situation was actually pretty unique... when we flushed a flock the would sail off into the clear-cut... one or two of the birds would land in the top of one of the sgraggly spruce left standing by the skidders... we discovered that if we approached the grounded flock the tree top birds would raise the alarm and they would all flush out of range... so as luck would have it, one of our 870's still had a turkey choke screwed in from the spring turkey season... using high brass 3" #6's in our 12 gauge 870's, we would snipe the treetop birds from 60-70 yards (sounds like a long shot eh? It did to me too, except that every single one went down dead with one shot)... after the look-outs were down, we could approach within 15-20 yards and flush and wing shoot the remainder (obviously removed the turkey tube for an improved before wing shooting)... I'll say this for the sharpies... you better keep your eye on the exact spot the fall and get there fast... those suckers are camoflaged when they land belly down, and if they are wounded, they burrow like field mice! All-in-all, good times had by all! I checked Epps for another of those guns... the mannlicher idea caught my imagination and I will do one if I run into one of them... Epps had one that was marked as "sold" which was probably yours... they are holding two guns for me now, that I am picking up next week.
