Description
The Stevens 320 Turkey Thumbhole is a purpose-built turkey gun at a price that leaves room in the budget for decoys, calls and a full season of shells. It pairs a 22-inch vent rib barrel with an extra-full turkey choke, a drilled and tapped receiver and an OD green thumbhole synthetic stock.
Turkey hunting is a shooting discipline more like rifle work than wingshooting: you aim at a head and neck rather than swinging on a moving bird. Everything about this shotgun is set up for that.
Stevens 320 Turkey Thumbhole Barrel and Choke
The 22-inch barrel is short enough to swing in a blind or from a seated position against a tree, and the vent rib keeps heat shimmer off the sight picture. It is chambered for 3-inch shells, which covers essentially every dedicated turkey load on the market.
An extra-full turkey choke ships installed. That tight constriction is what turns a shotgun pattern into the dense, small circle you need to put enough pellets into a turkey’s head and neck at forty yards.
Thumbhole Stock and Receiver
The thumbhole stock is the reason to choose this model over the standard 320. It puts your hand into a near-vertical grip, which supports the gun the way a rifle stock does and makes holding on a stationary target far steadier than a conventional shotgun grip allows.
The alloy steel receiver comes drilled and tapped, so mounting a red dot or a low-power scope is a bases-and-rings job. On a turkey gun that is close to essential, since precise aiming beats bead-and-swing at the ranges these shots happen.
Specifications
- Model: Stevens 320 Turkey, thumbhole
- Manufacturer item number: 23250
- Gauge: 12 gauge
- Chamber: 3 in.
- Capacity: 5+1
- Action: pump
- Barrel length: 22 in., matte black with vent rib
- Choke: extra-full turkey, installed
- Receiver: matte black alloy steel, drilled and tapped
- Stock: matte OD green synthetic thumbhole
- Controls: ambidextrous
- UPC: 011356232502
Why a Pump Gun for Turkey
Turkey hunting rarely calls for fast follow-up shots, and pumps are simpler, cheaper and less fussy about ammunition than semi-autos. A pump also functions identically in freezing weather and after a season of rain, mud and dust in a vest pocket.
The ambidextrous controls on this one are worth noting. Left-handed hunters usually pay a premium or make do with a right-hand gun; here the safety and slide release work from either side.
Patterning Matters More Than Anything
No turkey gun shoots the same pattern with every load. Before the season, put the Stevens 320 Turkey Thumbhole on paper at 40 yards with two or three different shells and count pellets in a ten-inch circle. The difference between the best and worst load in a given gun is routinely two to one.
That single afternoon does more for your success rate than any accessory purchase. It also tells you your real maximum range rather than the one printed on the shell box.
Why Buyers Choose It
Dedicated turkey guns from the major makers often cost two or three times this much for the same practical capability: short barrel, tight choke, camo finish and an optics-ready receiver. Stevens delivers all of it at an entry-level price.
It also works outside the spring woods. Swap in a different choke tube and the same gun handles deer with slugs, or small game and clays with a modified tube.
Who Should Buy It
This shotgun suits the turkey hunter who wants a dedicated gun rather than re-choking a field gun every spring, the hunter buying a first shotgun on a budget, and the left-handed shooter who appreciates genuinely ambidextrous controls.
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