Finding the perfect chokes for duck hunting isn’t all that difficult. It can be a little more involved than using the modified choke that came with your new shotgun. Not to say that choke won’t work ...

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 ...

Most duck hunters head to the patterning board after buying a new shotgun to see how their gun shoots and identify where the shotshell pellets are striking paper. You might think the results are ...

North Florida's general spring turkey hunting season opens next Saturday at dawn, and runs daily through April 26 (except in Holmes county, where it ends April 5). So now's the time to be getting your ...

Without it, you might be missing shots or worse, wounding animals without a clean kill. Patterning not only improves your performance but also ensures ethical hunting by making your shots more ...

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 ...