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 these combos shoot actually work against you if ...

On Monday, an employee at Mack's Prairie Wings in Stuttgart showed me .410 TSS patterns on turkey targets from 15-42 yards. At 15-25 yards, the TSS obliterated the turkey's head.