I'm new to turkey hunting also. Went out and bought a pair of Mossberg 500's, one for me and one for my son. Shot it twice and went back to the store and bought a limbsaver butt-pad, didn't shoot it again for three days. I started out patterning Federal, 3", 5's and 6's at 30 yards with the full choke, nice tight pattern. Patterned out again at 40 yards and wasn't very impressed. I added a Carlson, ported xtra full, turkey choke and tried out the Remington Heavyweight #5's. Very few pellets off thepaper at 40 yards, shooting at the Primos turkey targets. We'll be trying out everything we've been learning this coming weekend. Can someone tell me how to keep my thumb out of my eye?

The calls aren't that hard to figure out, slates and boxcalls seem to have a slightly smoother learning curve than the mouthcalls, but I really like the sound of the mouth calls. I picked up a Knight and Hale slate, and a Primos Wetbox boxcall, because it's supposed to either rain or snow, or both, while we're out there. I'm sure glad that you can now buy reasonably priced, camo, quiet, raingear now.