Given the quality of today’s modern, specialized turkey shotguns, hunters can kill a gobbler at distances unheard of two or three decades back. In fact, these guns beg to be topped with some kind of optic for better aiming — another thing nearly unheard of three decades ago.
I remember more than 20 years ago mounting one of the first commercially available red-dot sights, an original Bushnell Holosight, on my old Remington 870 that I used for everything from upland birds to waterfowl to gobblers. Since the gun had no mechanism for mounting such an optic, I had to rely on
















