Well, you come on here asking for help and when you get an honest opinion you fly off the handle...

If you don't agree with what I say on here then go ahead and keep doing what you are doing...

But I have to ask, if you have all this experience and know plenty of others getting better patterns and killing toms way out yonder then why don't you simply ask them for their setup????

It reminds me of fellows coming on here wanting to know how much a bullet fired from a .270 will drop at 500 yards...

Only experience and working with your equipment will teach you these things...

There is much more to hunting than using the latest, greatest, most expensive equipment out there...There are ways to get a gobbler in close, so close that you may not want those super tight patterns...The two birds I killed last year were shot at 20 and 25 yards...I used a Browning B-80 with the Remington Nitros 3 inch mag #5 shot you can buy at WalMart...They were number 15 and 16 I have killed with those loads and both were jelly headed...My choke is a Hastings .640...

Frankly, my setup is over kill...This year I'm going back to my 12 gauge double that I got in 1967...I killed plenty of birds with that gun before there were screw in chokes...

And no, I have never and will never shoot at a turkey at 50 yards...

And I have never wounded a bird either...The two go hand in hand...