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

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 ...

Since there’s nothing more discouraging than watching a ringneck or pintail turn on the afterburners and disappear without as much as a ruffled feather, now is the time to check the pattern on your ...

When I was 10 or thereabouts, my father introduced me to quail and rabbit hunting on my grandmother’s farm north of Carl Junction. On a calm, sunny November morning, we flushed two coveys of quail and ...

Whether or not you believe in breaking in a shotgun, there’s one universal rule: clean it before and after using it. Even ...