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, ...

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 ...

Last turkey season I made the switch from 12 gauge to 20 gauge and killed gobblers near and far. I loved carrying the lighter platform through the woods and by pairing my gun with the best 20-gauge ...