Though I shot my first turkey with a Remington 870 made in the late 1950s that my dad passed down to me, I’m sold on the idea of hunting turkeys with a shotgun set up specifically for the pursuit. What’s equally important is using a turkey-specific sighting system that’s more substantial than one or two beads on top of a ventilated rib. However, I’ll bet it’s not for the reason you probably think.
The most fun you can have in turkey hunting and, perhaps in the entire outdoors, is calling a turkey in close. The rush of having a bird inside of 10 yards is nearly indescribable.
Personally, the closest bird I’ve ever shot was at four steps. I was shooting my Thompson/ Center Encore Pro Hunter with its 12…
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Turkey & Turkey Hunting (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2018