Last spring, I mentored a veteran waterfowl hunter in the turkey woods whose waterfowl wisdom is vast and surpasses my own. I figured turkey hunting would be a cinch for him, but when he started asking questions about his first turkey hunt, they opened my eyes.
This is my 37th year of turkey hunting. I’ve delivered seminars around the country on turkey hunting the West, wrote a book on the subject and have called in countless toms over the decades, both when hunting and photographing them. If you’re new to turkey hunting, these are my answers to the 10 most frequently asked questions I hear from novice gobbler chasers.
1 WHAT SHOTGUN DO I NEED?
The most common questions I get are on shotguns and loads, usually in the form of, “Will the shotgun I have work?” My answer is always, “If you can shoot it accurately and with confidence, it’ll work.”
Turkey guns, chokes and loads