Garden & Gun

Small-Bore Toms

Tas Gardner is a believer. It defies logic, says the Paris, Tennessee, attorney, but the proof is as solid as the weight of a wild turkey across his shoulders: Small-bore shotguns for wild turkeys—and yes, we’re talking about the diminutive .410—have hunters scrambling to find the new, wildly popular shotguns and shotshells as the spring turkey season approaches.

Gardner, who recently completed a U.S. Super Slam of killing a wild turkey in all forty-nine states where they exist, says

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