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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 ...

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 ...

It is an unfortunate fact that the vast majority of shotgunners head into the field each fall without first proving their scattergun’s real-world performance on a patterning board. This ...

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 ...

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 ...