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I never hunted turkey but I understand that full choke on them is the way to go. Is that because they are usually 40 yards away?
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No. Shooting a turkey is totally unlike shooting any other bird. With an ordinary bird, you are using a shot size and pattern made to surround and penetrate the bird's body. Those birds are shot at while they are flying. An equavalent sized bird to a turkey would be a goose and that would be shot at with BB or #2 sized shot (i.e. relatively large pellets).
With a turkey, you use a VERY dense pattern of relatively small shot (#5 or #6) and you aim for the head. Turkeys are called in and shot while they are on the ground.