The Vortex Viper HD binoculars are the rare Goldilocks binoculars. They’re neither too small, as some highly portable compacts can be, nor too big as some of the mega-chassis 15-power binoculars are.

If you buy into turkey chokes and expensive, tight-shooting turkey loads, your gun needs a sight. Period. Otherwise, you will whistle dense, tiny, grapefruit-size patterns right past the heads of ...