We live in the era of specialized turkey gear. Turkey-specific guns, loads, and chokes make it possible to cleanly kill turkeys at 50-plus yards. But here’s the catch: The super-tight patterns that ...

The included fiber optic sight is perfectly capable of killing a turkey, but if you’re a turkey red dot convert, the A300 ...

Warm weather has roused turkey hunters from their slumber, sending them afield for dawn patrols on lonely roads listening for gobbles. Finding and patterning turkeys is helpful, but it's also ...

It wasn’t all that long ago when turkey hunters firmly believed the larger the shot size in their shells, the better the chance for bagging a hen or tom. That flawed thinking has changed. Today, ...

Patterning your shotgun is the only way to learn its effective range. Testing your gun with different chokes and loads can increase your hitting percentages by helping you find the ideal pattern ...

Like anything, you can take patterning a shotgun too far. A turkey hunter told me once he spent $1,000 one winter buying XX-Full chokes and magnum loads for his guns, then he patterned them all to ...

Before I ever got serious about patterning turkey guns, chokes, and loads, I believed the 12 gauge was the king of the turkey woods — and always would be. Like many turkey hunters, I killed my first ...

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THE key to a successful spring turkey hunt is knowing what your shotgun can and can not do. That will determine whether you walk out of the woods with a turkey over your shoulder. Knowing your firearm ...

The dirty little secret about shotguns is that some don't shoot straight. Another secret: Most people who own these guns don't realize they don't place shot where they're pointed. Why not? Because ...