School me on 410's

i love the 410. My oldest bought 1 . Now everybody in the family has killed 1 with it. Like carrying a red ryder
Plenty of kill in it out to 50yrds. We don't use it to say we did it w a 410
We use it because there is almost no boom
No kick
And really no reason to use anything else to kill a turkey ..
my 8 yr old killed 1 at 43 w it .
I killed 1 at 48
We've killed over a dz w it
Haven't missed or lost any w it
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That's my primary turkey gun.
I have a Tri-Star viper g2. Jeb's xx choke shooting rogue ammo. Topped with a Burris ff 3. It will more than do the job.
I got my son a 301 the factory choke with apex 9.5 shot does pretty well. I put a code black turkey choke in it and it tightened it up pretty well. The bad thing about 410's are they can be finicky from gun to gun , load to load and so on .
My suggestion to you would be watch blue collar outdoors on YouTube. All they do are pattern testing. They have a lot on 410's.
I would get some quality TSS hand loads. Weather it be rouge, apex or whatever you like or can afford. I'd probably try the factory full or x full first with some cheaper TSS , I've heard the hearters brand from Bass pro is decent.
TRU Glo makes an aim point called a gobble stopper, that's what I put on my son's 301. It's cheap but it works. You'll more than likely need/ want an optic shooting TSS. Point of impact and aim suck on most shotguns.
The sickness of Turkey Guns are you always want to try different loads or chokes to try to get the pattern better.
If you can get a good even pattern out to 35/40 yards that consistent and your happy with don't go any further.
I'm the world's worst about trying to always improve my pattern. I have to restrain myself every season not start buying new loads and chokes.
Good luck.
 

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