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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).
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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).
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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