A few years ago I was hunting turkeys with decoys, using 1 1/8 oz. of steel #4 in a 12 gauge.
I was a long ways from home, and only realized belatedly that I hadn't put in my tighter chokes for my O/U. I had skeet 2 and IC... what I'd be using the previous fall for hunting mallards over decoys.
So, I made a point of setting the turkey decoys a little closer than usual, no more than 30 paces.
Long story short, on the first morning of the hunt two nice mature gobblers came right in, and I easily dropped the first with the IC barrel. The second Tom looped back to try to kick the downed bird to death, and I dropped him too. Here in parts of Montana you can harvest two Toms.
Though it wouldn't have been my first choice, these chokes and distances worked fine on big Tom turkeys with #4 steel.
