Brad---I hope there are a lot of turkey newbies and others that aren't real familiar with ballistics and patterning their guns that are reading this thread, as I think you have offered an awful lot of beneficial information for the average guy that hasn't done a lot except to go hunting thinking they are okay with what they have! Just grabbing a shotgun off the rack that you use for rabbits, etc. and sticking a turkey choke on it and going out doesn't hack it a lot of the time unless a gobbler is right on top of them. Then when a bird is out there at 40 yards and doesn't go down like a rabbit might at that distance they wonder why!!! My guess is that more often that not that many people who turkey hunt don't put the time and effort into doing what is necessary lijke you're talking about to assure a humane kill 100% of the time.