Make sure your shotgun is shooting the best possible patterns before upland and waterfowl seasons open. Here’s a step-by-step guide Like anything, you can take patterning a shotgun too far. A turkey ...

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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 ...

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 ...

“Hunt turkeys without patterning your shotgun and you may only kill time.” So reads the opening line in Winchester’s “Shotgun Patterning For Your Turkey,” a booklet designed to encourage and inform ...

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** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** The fighting shotgun has a long ...

The late Bob Brister, who started writing for Field & Stream in 1965 and became shooting editor in 1972, had a serious obsession with learning all he could about the inner workings of shotguns and the ...