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 ...

As a walk-in hunter, I have a problem, and it’s one I suspect many of you may share: I don’t have quite enough hands. That is, not enough to carre a bucket, a gun, a mojo pole, decoys, and a blind bag ...

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 ...

Welcome to the confusing world of shotgun chokes. Well, it really isn't that confusing unless you care to delve deeply into the subject and most hunters simply do not. But, there are some basics you ...

The down side to full and extra or super full chokes is that at close range they shoot very tightly, so if you are not right on your target, you miss. With an improved cylinder choke, as in the case ...

There are plenty of shotgun and shotshell “truths” that simply aren’t, well, true. Many of these falsehoods are perpetuated by well-meaning folks that have not done the pattern work, don’t fully ...

This article, "Tops In the Blind & Field: The Remington 870," appeared originally in the September 2003 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and ...

The shotgun has played an important role throughout the history of firearms. From matchlock and flintlock “fowlers” to today’s wide array, shotguns can be considered multitask tools because they can ...

If you’re a duck hunter and don’t know the name Fabarm, you’re not alone. In fact, I would venture to guess most waterfowlers have never seen one of these gas-driven semi-autos in the blind. But its ...