I think any kind of the new turkey sights would be great for the same reasons Wally said. I don't use them, myself, because I'm too cheap to buy them and I haven't missed a turkey in about 30 years. I prefer to get them at about thirty yards, where my pattern is real good and it's pretty hard to miss, even with just a front bead. One helpful hint is not to aim at the head. Aim about six inches down his neck. That gives you a little more leeway if your aim is off.
One of the toughest shots I ever made was on a gobbler eight feet from me. I didn't want to blow his head off so just tried to get a couple pellets in the top of his skull. I don't know if I could have pulled that off with fiber optic sights. That was a tough bird to call into range---took me about three hours. He wouldn't come until I crawled into the thickest thicket around and called from there. I could hear him coming but it was so thick I couldn't see him 'til he was about twelve feet away. Turned out he had some shot under his hide from somebody blasting at him from too far away a few days earlier and he wasn't about to come out into the open where that could happen again. He only felt comfortable where it was real thick. I had been trying to call him into a spot where I had about thirty or forty yards visibility and that was too open for him.
I've used that trick a few times since. Think about it. How many hunters ever call from a spot so thick they can't see more than twenty or thirty feet? But a hen will get into a spot like that and call if she feels like it.
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