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 ...

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 ...

Two years ago, my confidence was overflowing as I attempted for the fifth time to complete my Grand Slam by taking an Osceola gobbler near Daytona Beach, Florida. Armed with a Stoeger M3500 semi-auto ...

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 ...

The 12 gauge is the king of the turkey woods, and probably always will be. But the little .410 bore seems to be gaining more traction season after season. This is largely thanks to the popularity of ...