Before I ever got serious about patterning turkey guns, chokes, and loads, I believed the 12 gauge was the king of the turkey woods — and always would be. Like many turkey hunters, I killed my first ...

“I am your density. I mean, your destiny,” said George McFly in Back to the Future . When it comes to shotgun pellets, density is destiny. The denser the shot, the better it retains velocity, the ...

A new line of shotgun shells from a Mississippi manufacturer is allowing hunters to do things many never thought possible, and it could extend the time for hunters to kill wild hogs on public land.

Every shot at a turkey is a unique and random event. You throw hundreds of pellets downrange, hoping a few find the head and neck. It’s a target, as one custom choke maker once described it to me, ...