One of the most popular choices for home defense is double-O buckshot. This ammo features larger pellets, each roughly the ...

The 70mm payload launcher is still one of the most versatile tools in the law enforcement toolbox. Like the revolver, the shotgun is still the king of reliability and cartridge effectiveness. The ...

Shotgun gauges are determined by the number of lead balls of a given diameter required to make one pound of that size ball. In other words 20 balls of 20-gauge diameter are needed to make one pound; ...

In the late 19th and into the 20th century, the 10-gauge was in widespread use as an all-purpose shotgun for hunting ducks, upland birds, and small game, much as the 12-gauge is today. It had a 2 ...

Turkey hunters can be like any other breed of outdorspeopole, running the gamut from bare-bones minimalists to gadget-crazed trend setters. Of course "spending up" is everywhere in the great outdoors ...

April 3, 2009 Assault rifles are all well and good, but when you really need to tear a person to pieces, nothing fills the air with metal quite like a combat shotgun. And for those times when a ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — A few weeks ago I was hunting pheasants, trying to keep up with my Lab Bailey, as she worked a ditch filled with cattails, when an out-of-place color on the ground ahead of me caught ...