A good compromise is #5 copper-plated lead pellets loaded in a 12-gauge 3-inch magnum shot shell. With this setup, you'll be good out to 40 yards, and perhaps 50 if your gun is patterned tight. If you want better range and lethality, you'll need to consider using tungsten shot.

Specs

Shooters might use shot as small as #9 for very small birds like quail, or as large as #2 for large birds like geese and swans. For comparison, there are 585 #9 lead pellets in an ounce versus only 90 #2 pellets in an ounce. For turkey hunting, shot sizes 4, 5 and 6 will all work.

For a 12 gauge, it's hard to beat the 3” #5, 1 ¾ oz load spitting at 1200 fps. I have personally killed more turkeys with this particular load than any other of the good long-range turkey loads. I've seen it drop turkeys at nearly 50 yards with a bead sight out of a stock Mossberg 500.

40 yards Your effective shooting distance (how far you can be from a turkey and likely kill it with a single shot) will vary with the level of your shooting skills and the type of equipment you're using. A good rule of thumb for shotgun shooters is 40 yards.

Tungsten is considered a rare metal, and it's not easily sourced. Therefore, a single TSS turkey shell can cost almost as much as a box of 10 lead turkey loads. That being said, while lead loads are still legal for turkey hunting, lethal, and far less expensive, those aren't the only factors to consider.

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40 yards A good rule of thumb for shotgun shooters is 40 yards. Anything further than that and there's a good chance you might not hit the head and neck with enough pellets to kill the bird. Any closer than 20 yards and your pellet pattern may not have time to open up enough for maximum effectiveness.

“In terms of ensuring that the breast meat is delicious and moist and the dark meat is cooked through, I think you're going to get the best results from a 14-to-15-pound turkey, max.” Our advice: Go for a smaller turkey. We promise, there'll be enough to go around.

The full choke comes with the most severe and impactful restriction and effectively shoots squirrels, turkeys, and other game from 40 to even 70 yards since the pellets hold together even longer. For even denser patterns at a distance, hunters may use an extra full or a special turkey choke.

A turkey shoot is an opportunity for an individual or a party to take advantage of a situation with a significant degree of ease. The term likely originates from a method of hunting wild turkeys in which the hunter, coming upon a flock, intentionally scatters them.

Established in 1985, the Khan Arms Company is a part of one of the greatest gunsmithing tradition in Turkey located in Üzümlü/Konya, where the center of Turkish shotgun clusters are.

Shotguns for turkeys also have tight chokes and longer barrels, but they tend to have some sort of method of mounting a scope to the top of the receiver. Many turkey hunters use a red-dot sight or low-power scope to improve the odds of putting a pellet into the head.

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