A shotgun’s payload of pellets flies downrange in an expanding, lengthening swarm. The choke in the gun’s muzzle determines the height and width of that swarm. “Choke” is the taper in the last inches ...

When a shotgun is fired, a column of round shot pellets leaves the barrel and spreads out into a “pattern.” As the pellets travel farther from the firearm’s muzzle, the pattern widens. At some point, ...

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Aftermarket chokes have proven to increase shotgun pattern density at the target. But it’s not that common to see pheasant hunters using these specialized steel tubes that are engineered to take ...

If you’re skipping the step of patterning your shotgun, you’re leaving accuracy and consistency up to chance. Patterning is the process of testing how your shotgun distributes pellets on a target at ...

THE WASHINGTON TIMES Turkey hunters, take note. Roy Rhodes, a former world duck calling champion and winner of a national turkey calling championship, now wants to help shotgunners hit their mark more ...