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 ...

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 ...

Many things about successfully bagging a spring gobbler can be debated, but there is no argument that the single most important factor in consistently filling a tag is knowing where a turkey gun ...

The first wild turkey I took fell to a load of No. 6 lead out of a 2¾ -inch shotshell. The shotgun, a plain-barrel Remington 870, had a fixed, modified choke. I was new to spring turkey hunting. But ...

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 ...

A dedicated turkey gun must shoot an even, dense pattern, naturally point on target, and easily maneuver through the hardwoods. The Beretta A300 Ultima Turkey accomplishes all of these tasks and more, ...