We put the best lead and TSS turkey loads to the test through patterning and ballistic gel evaluations. These are the loads that won top honors.

Every shot at a turkey is a unique and random event. You throw hundreds of pellets downrange, hoping a few find the head and neck. It’s a target, as one custom choke maker once described it to me, ...

We live in the era of specialized turkey gear. 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 ...