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  • You don't want to shoot more than 50 yards with a twelve-gauge, I personally try to keep in within 30 yards because I like to guarantee a clean kill (provided I don't miss).

    Turkey Hunting Basics 2009

  • You don't want to shoot more than 50 yards with a twelve-gauge, I personally try to keep in within 30 yards because I like to guarantee a clean kill (provided I don't miss).

    Turkey Hunting Basics 2009

  • I tried to swing the twelve-gauge toward him and lay down a masking shot before he let off the AR-15 he had raised to his shoulder.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • I knelt on one knee in the leaves and pine needles, the cut-down twelve-gauge tilted at a forty-five-degree angle.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • He sat atop a quarter horse that was at least sixteen hands high, his back erect, a cut-down double-barrel twelve-gauge propped on his thigh, the saddle creaking under his weight.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • I tried to swing the twelve-gauge toward him and lay down a masking shot before he let off the AR-15 he had raised to his shoulder.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • I flung the rock in a high arc so that it fell through the canopy and landed on a solid spot outside the tree line, indicating that perhaps I had bolted from behind the water oak and was coming up hard on their flank, on the high ground, the sawed-off twelve-gauge pump about to spray buckshot all over their position.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • He sat atop a quarter horse that was at least sixteen hands high, his back erect, a cut-down double-barrel twelve-gauge propped on his thigh, the saddle creaking under his weight.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • I started to turn around, my left hand working the pump on the twelve-gauge, but it was too late.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • I ran into the bedroom and pulled my cut-down twelve-gauge from the back of the closet.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

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