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, ...

Turkey hunters are fanatical about finding the perfect turkey loads. While turkey shotguns haven’t changed too much in the last few decades, loads—including 12-gauge, 20-gauge, and .410 bore—have ...

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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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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — Good news this spring is that I have found five turkey loads that pattern extraordinarily well out of my shotguns. The bad news is that I had to test 14 different loads to find them. For ...

This is why you should pattern your shotguns. Last week, I tested a selection of popular turkey hunting loads, including two flavors of Winchester's popular Long Beard XR 12-gauge loads. The ...

On a recent visit to Omaha and Lincoln, I experienced sticker shock. No, I wasn't looking at new cars. Rather, I was surprised at how much ammunition prices had gone up from several month earlier when ...

Turkey hunters can be like any other breed of outdorspeopole, running the gamut from bare-bones minimalists to gadget-crazed trend setters. Of course "spending up" is everywhere in the great outdoors ...

My ideal turkey gun would be light and handy, it would be compatible with a red dot sight, it would have nice ergonomics to promote accurate shooting, and it wouldn’t rock me too badly when I pulled ...