In general, upland hunters use too little choke and waterfowlers use too much. Waterfowlers fixate on tight patterns at 50 yards even though their goal is to shoot ducks and geese over decoys at less ...

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The right choke for pheasant hunting will help you put enough pellets in a ringneck’s vitals to drop the bird immediately. Pheasants are big, tough birds, often shot going away, at distances varying ...

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, ...