I was just wondering what type of technique do you all use to judge distance in conjuction to cleanly harvesting your bird?Do ya just look at it and guess or is there something you do to know the yardage.I know one guy who uses a rangefinder and I kinda like the idea.Obviously in some situations things happen so fast that you wouldn't be able to use it but those early mornin gobblers that your set-up on waiting to come out of the roost it would be pretty handy.The reason I ask this is I've been fortunate to hunt turks for quite sometime and I thought I would never take a shot that over extended my gun barrel and I'll be if I didn't do it once but twice last year!Boy not only was I disgusted with myself but embarrased too!I was hunting a new place that I never hunted before and I've since found out it is very difficult to judge distance in open and flat woods.I was hunting in a walnut orchard that was like hunting on a football field with rows of trees.The trees weren't big enough to set-up in front of and the grass was less than a inch high so the only place we could set-up was on the edges of the orchard.All I know until my buddy told me the trees were all 10 yards apart I had a real difficult time judging distance in those conditions.I'll tell you another thing too when you sit down distance can be decieving too.Ever shot a bird and as you were going to get it tell yourself "wow that was further than I thought"I know I have.How do you fellas judge your distance?

Edited by - bobgobble2 on 01/27/2002 10:39:48