I’ve gone round and round and shot them with everything from 2 3/4 20g and 16g all the way up to 3 1/2 12 and even one with a 10 gauge. By far my favorite is 2 3/4” 12 gauge and I’m setting my kids up with a soft shooting Remington 1100 with just that shell this year. No fancy turkey loads, #6 heavy field. These days I mostly hunt with whichever shotgun I find in my safe that needs to go for a walk with me!
Those loads will kill more turkeys than I want to breast out.
I used to think I needed the tightest pattern with the heaviest load out there but then I started noticing I killed a schittload of birds under 30 yards and a field load of about any type will work just fine.
BTW, I still shoot those heavy loads as I am sitting on about 20 boxes of them!!
