MS-Interesting about # 8 shot.
Would work in my old Smith-Foxes and M-12 Heavy Duck guns.
Tom Kelly would agree about patience and what works.
The twin trigger of a double gun allows for instant selection of a possible different loaded shell.......
Cut my teeth on a 16 ga "Elsie".
Back trigger, left/full barrel
Front trigger, right/mod barrel
As a kid, nobody explained the L/F, R/M thing to me, but I wasn't trying to do anything but kill squirrels. Choke didn't mean a whole lot.
My Elsie got the job done, that's all that counted.
Only later in life after experiencing some disappointments pass shooting ducks did my Dad explain the "pattern density kills, not shot size" theory.
With a box of Rem Hi-Velocity #9's, I began clearing the skies of ducks with my little hunting group. They sneered at me shooting #9's, but when the smoke cleared, I won the "rounds per duck" pot every time. They continued to shoot Rem 2.75" Nitro Mag 4's with shot buffer. ????
The theory is pretty simple.
Turkeys don't have high carbon steel bones. It doesn't take but ONE pellet to the brain or to disrupt the CNS (central nervous system) to collect a turkey.
The more pellets I can put on target, the higher the probability of a fatal pellet strike.
