Like anything, you can take patterning a shotgun too far. A turkey hunter told me once he spent $1,000 one winter buying XX-Full chokes and magnum loads for his guns, then he patterned them all to ...

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Dove season begins on Sept. 1, and here’s an important piece of advice to improve your shooting this season — don’t choke. I don’t mean that in an insulting fashion, though it’s easy enough to choke ...

It was just a casual conversation on shooting shotguns that made me realize how much misinformation is out there regarding choke tubes and shot shell patterns. Although this topic has been kicked ...

There are plenty of shotgun and shotshell “truths” that simply aren’t, well, true. Many of these falsehoods are perpetuated by well-meaning folks that have not done the pattern work, don’t fully ...

Turkey shotshell loads of almost-magical tungsten shot, once available only to those who loaded their own or knew exactly who to ask, are now available to hunters everywhere. Factory loadings are on ...

The shotgun was mankind’s first gunpowder-fired weapon, and even today, it is arguably our most versatile firearms system. Its many advantages are obvious. With a shotgun, you have the ability to ...