Carlson’s Long Beard Turkey Choke Tube 20 Gauge .568 Invector Plus

Description

Turkey hunting comes down to one thing: putting a dense, even pattern right where the bead sits. The Carlson's Long Beard Turkey choke tube is tuned to do exactly that in a 20 gauge Browning Invector Plus barrel. It runs a .568 constriction and an extended, ported body machined from 17-4 stainless steel, so it holds up shot after shot and shrugs off corrosion in wet spring woods.

What Makes the Long Beard Choke Different

The secret sauce here is a longer parallel section, roughly 25 percent longer than a standard turkey tube. That extended section gives the shot column more time to settle before it leaves the muzzle, which cuts down on pellet deformation and tightens the pattern well downrange. Carlson's designed this tube specifically around Winchester's Long Beard XR ammo and its Shot-Lok resin, and the two together throw nearly round shot for genuinely tight, long-range patterns. Hunters running these tubes regularly report dense counts in an 8-inch circle out to 50 and 60 yards, which is the kind of reach that turns a marginal shot into a clean one.

Fitment and Build on the Long Beard Turkey Tube

This one is threaded for the Browning Invector Plus system in 20 gauge, so make sure your barrel uses that pattern before ordering. The extended, ported design sticks out past the muzzle a touch, which makes it easy to swap by hand and helps tame some muzzle jump. It's meant for lead turkey loads, and Carlson's recommends keeping steel shot to no larger than #4 through their turkey chokes. Skip slugs, sabots, and buckshot in this tube.

Carlson's builds these in the USA and backs them with a lifetime warranty, so if something ever goes wrong they'll take care of it. One tip worth repeating: pattern your gun before opening day. Every barrel and load combo is a little different, and 15 minutes at the range tells you exactly what your setup does at each yardage.