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 ...

The right choke for pheasant hunting will help you put enough pellets in a ringneck’s vitals to drop the bird immediately. Pheasants are big, tough birds, often shot going away, at distances varying ...

Without it, you might be missing shots or worse, wounding animals without a clean kill. Patterning not only improves your ...

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 ...

The authors small munsterlander pointer after a good day of shooting. Jarrod Spilger For many years, I wasn’t a quail hunter. Quail were merely an afterthought, a chance encounter while pheasant ...

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Asking what the best sporting clays choke is a lot like asking a group of hunters what’s the best breed of bird dog. You’re going to get a lot of heated opinions, which may or may not be based in fact ...

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 ...