In the world of shotguns there are some large topics of dissension: lead, choke selection, gun fit, and shot size selection to name a few. But one surprisingly controversial topic is the subject of ...

Patterning your shotgun is the only way to learn its effective range. Testing your gun with different choke and loads can increase your hitting percentages by helping you find the ideal pattern spread ...

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Spring and summer are a great time to improve your shotgun skills for the upcoming hunting season, and I can’t think of a better way to do this than with a steady diet of trap, skeet, and sporting ...

If you’re skipping the step of patterning your shotgun, you’re leaving accuracy and consistency up to chance. Patterning is the process of testing how your shotgun distributes pellets on a target at ...

When I was 10 or thereabouts, my father introduced me to quail and rabbit hunting on my grandmother’s farm north of Carl Junction. On a calm, sunny November morning, we flushed two coveys of quail and ...