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 ...

Josh Honeycutt poses with a Kentucky longbeard he killed after much time spent in the field scouting and patterning longbeards. For me, turkey hunting takes a backseat to one other game animal: ...