No rifles might be a safety consideration in the heavily timbered and brushy eastern forest? There isn't anything wrong with calling an old gobbler close, making a good identification and then making a clean headshot with a shotgun. I could kill more birds with a rifle than with a shotgun in the early season before the vegetation greens up. After that it probably wouldn't matter. The hunt happens before the shooting starts.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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