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 ...

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 ...

Federal’s Flitecontrol was (shown on the right) produced this excellent 60-yard pattern on a Shoot-N-C turkey target. The Flitecontrol wad increases effective range over traditional wads (left) and ...

If the hunter—we’ll call him Craig —had been reading the paper, he would have known that different shotgun loads can make a big dilerence in accuracy and patterning in your turkey gun. That tip was ...

A lot of turkey hunters think that the whole key in being successful is to learn how to call superbly and that’s all they focus on. In my Turkey Seminars I teach that calling is about 20% of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are officially smack dab in the middle of our spring gobbler season. Perhaps you are one of the lucky ones who tagged out early and now get to enjoy things like some much-needed sleep, going to ...

In the world of shotguns there are some large topics of dissension: lead, choke selection, gun fit, and shot size selection to name a few. But one surprisingly controversial topic is the subject of ...

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 ...