Every shot at a turkey is a unique and random event. You throw hundreds of pellets downrange, hoping a few find the head and neck. It’s a target, as one custom choke maker once described it to me, ...

Tungsten Super Shot is the hottest thing to hit the turkey hunting world since the pop-up blind, but still, so many hunters don’t understand its performance — or its limitations. In hopes of shedding ...

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 ...

When it comes to gear, turkey hunting can be as minimal or maximal as you choose. Many of the early, fabled turkey hunters needed little more than basic camo, a call or two, and a shotgun. Today, a ...

After extensive testing of 20-gauge ammo, we might retire our 12-gauge for turkey hunting. Modern ammo and high-performance choke tubes enable a 20-gauge to throw lethal patterns to and beyond ethical ...

BEAR GRASS, N.C. — As difficult as it is to bag a spring gobbler, veteran turkey hunters enjoy upping the ante and adding to the challenge. For many of those hunters, it means leaving their 12-gauge ...

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 ...

The hottest magnum 12-gauge turkey loads are incredibly effective, but they aren’t always necessary. At 30 yards, a 3.5-inch turkey load delivering a 2 ¼-ounce payload of Tungsten Super Shot is, well, ...

After extensive testing of 20-gauge ammo, we might retire our 12-gauge for turkey hunting. Modern ammo and high-performance choke tubes enable a 20-gauge to throw lethal patterns to and beyond ethical ...