Hunters who are looking for a lighter shotgun to carry for spring turkey hunting season, may want to consider a .410. Recent advancements in shot shell technology have made small .410 shotguns a ...

Before I ever got serious about patterning turkey guns, chokes, and loads, I believed the 12 gauge was the king of the turkey woods — and always would be. Like many turkey hunters, I killed my first ...

Turkey hunters can be like any other breed of outdorspeopole, running the gamut from bare-bones minimalists to gadget-crazed trend setters. Of course "spending up" is everywhere in the great outdoors ...

Shotgun gauges are determined by the number of lead balls of a given diameter required to make one pound of that size ball. In other words 20 balls of 20-gauge diameter are needed to make one pound; ...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the 10-gauge was in widespread use as an all-purpose shotgun for hunting ducks, upland birds, and small game, much as the 12-gauge is today. It had a 2 ...

“We have a good supply of 12-gauge BBB to No. 6 shotshells and focus on 1¼-ounce loads in Nos. 2, 3 and 4 shot, and where we had 20 skews (different shells) of steel shot a few years ago, we have to ...

Editor’s note: As hunters and anglers, we don’t agree on everything. We’ve even been known to argue on occasion. That’s why this week is all about figuring out who’s right and who’s just plain wrong.