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

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** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** The best way to determine how a ...

With the opening day of spring gobbler season about six weeks away, now is a great time to prepare for those upcoming days in the turkey woods. Quiet camouflage clothing, good hiking boots and an ...

In the long-gone days of lead shot, choosing chokes for waterfowling was simple: the fuller, the better. A few hunters picked Modified for over-decoy shooting, but more often than not, in those days ...

April is coming, and many turkey hunters are salivating over new choke tubes and the hottest new turkey loads. Turkey hunters aren't unique to the syndrome. It affects waterfowl hunters and target ...

Warm weather has roused turkey hunters from their slumber, sending them afield for dawn patrols on lonely roads listening for gobbles. Finding and patterning turkeys is helpful, but it's also ...

The dirty little secret about shotguns is that some don't shoot straight. Another secret: Most people who own these guns don't realize they don't place shot where they're pointed. Why not? Because ...

Aftermarket chokes have proven to increase shotgun pattern density at the target. But it’s not that common to see pheasant hunters using these specialized steel tubes that are engineered to take ...

A lot of turkey hunters think that the whole key in being successful is to learn how to call superbly and that’s all they focus on. In my turkey seminars, I teach that calling is about 20 percent of ...

With the nice spring days we have had recently, I have sure noticed the turkeys out and about and the toms are strutting. I know the archers are in the field now, but I’m getting anxious for the ...