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Beretta makes some of the best chokes for sporting clays.
Gear

The Best Chokes for Sporting Clays of 2024

By John B. Snow

Krieghoff K-20 Victoria Review: A High-End Bird Gun Designed for Women
Guns

Krieghoff K-20 Victoria Review: A High-End Bird Gun Designed for Women

By Andrea Bogard

We tested the Spandau Arms S2.
Guns

Spandau Arms S2 Review: Field Testing a $500 Semi-Auto Duck Gun

By Ashley Thess

Side-by-side shotguns
Guns

The Evolution of Side-by-Side Shotguns in America

By Joe Genzel

A hunter looks through a red-dot sight on a duck gun.
Guns

Red-Dots for Wingshooting? Manufacturers Say We’ll Soon Have Optics on Our Duck Guns

By Natalie Krebs

We tested the Weatherby Orion SXS, an affordable side by side shotgun.
Guns

Weatherby Orion SxS Review

By Andrew McKean

A man wearing ear and eye pro shoots a new Browning A5 in 20 gauge.
Guns

New Shotguns of SHOT Show 2024

By Natalie Krebs

Best Guns for Home Defense
Guns

Best Guns for Home Defense

By Matt Foster

the best chokes for duck hunting
Gear

The Best Chokes for Duck Hunting, Range Tested and Reviewed

By Alex Robinson

Man shoots Savage shotgun.
Guns

The 15 Best Shotguns for Deer Hunting

By Tony Hansen, Curtis Niedermier

A good trap gun doesn't have to be expensive.
Guns

5 of the Best Trap Shotguns to Fit Every Shooter’s Budget

By Brad Fitzpatrick

Get your kids a shotgun that fits.
Guns

The 7 Best Shotguns for Young Hunters

By Brad Fitzpatrick, Joe Genzel

Remington Arms plant in Ilion, New York
Guns

RemArms to Close Historic Remington Gun Plant in Ilion, New York

By Katie Hill

A man fires one of the best semi auto shotguns.
Guns

The Best Duck Hunting Shotguns of 2024

By Joe Genzel, Alex Robinson

870 fieldmaster
Guns

Best Pump Shotguns of 2024, Tested and Reviewed

By John B. Snow

browning citori shotgun
Guns

The Browning Citori Is Still One of the Best Factory Over/Unders Ever Made

By Joe Genzel

Two hunters, man and woman, sit on a rock next to a limit of king ducks.
Hunting

The Favorite Shotgun, Choke, and Ammo Combinations of 5 Diehard Duck Hunters (and One Outdoor Writer)

By Joe Genzel

Sabots shoot flatter than rifled slugs.
Gear

Rifled vs. Sabot Slugs: Are You Shooting the Right Whitetail Load this Deer Season?

By Payton Miller, Joe Genzel

The SX4 is a highly functional shotgun.
Guns

Shotgun Review: Winchester’s Super X4 Is the Best Affordable Semi-Auto

By Joe Genzel

8 of the Best Pump Shotguns for Less Than $500 (and One High-End Model)
Guns

8 of the Best Pump Shotguns for Less Than $500 (and One High-End Model)

By Curtis Niedermier

The Burgess Folding shotgun.
Guns

The Best Folding Shotguns for Survival and Self Defense

By Payton Miller

The buffering in TSS shot.
Guns

Tungsten Super Shot: An Inside Look at How the Deadliest Birdshot of All Time Is Made

By Nick Charney

Joseph Fanizzi is a three-time NSCA sub-junior champion. He shoots Beretta's gas-operated A400 Xcel.
Gear

The Best Shotguns for Sporting Clays, Tested and Reviewed

By Joe Genzel, Dana Farrell, Alex Robinson

There are a handful of affordable side-by-side shotguns out there, including the CZ bobwhite.
Guns

4 of the Best Side-by-Side Shotguns You Can Actually Afford

By Brad Fitzpatrick

Federal TSS performs better with more choke.
Gear

The Best Turkey Chokes of 2024

By Alex Robinson, Joe Genzel

Mossberg SA-28 Tactical Turkey in the woods
Guns

Mossberg SA-28 Tactical Turkey Tested and Reviewed

By John B. Snow

410 pump shotguns
Guns

The Best .410 Pump Shotguns for Hunting and Target Shooting

By Brad Fitzpatrick, Alex Robinson

Duck hunter holds one of the best 20 gauge shotguns.
Guns

The Best 20 Gauge Shotguns

By Joe Genzel

410 shotgun
Guns

410 Shotgun: Everything You Need to Know About the .410-Bore

By Joe Genzel

A semi-auto shotgun with a wood stock and three purple shotshells in the dirt.
Guns

The Best 16-Gauge Shotguns. Plus, Why the 16 Is the Most Versatile Gauge

By Brad Fitzpatrick, Joe Genzel

remington 870
Guns

5 Pump Shotguns That Could Replace the Remington 870

By Joe Genzel

New Shotguns from Shot Show 2023
Guns

New Shotguns from Shot Show 2023

By Joe Genzel

turkey hunting gear
Gear

Turkey Hunting Gear Essentials

By Adam Moore

favorite guns
Guns

Favorite Guns of 2022

By John B. Snow

The Benelli SBE 3 28 gauge is one of the best duck hunting shotguns.
Guns

28 Gauge Benelli Super Black Eagle 3 Review

By Alex Robinson

Oregon Prepares to Freeze Gun Sales in “De Facto Gun Ban”
Guns

Oregon Prepares to Freeze Gun Sales in “De Facto Gun Ban”

By Dac Collins

duck hunting
Hunting

How to Get Out of a Wingshooting Slump

By Alex Robinson

A set of 20-gauge Red Labels.
Guns

The Ruger Red Label: America’s Last Working-Class Over/Under

By Colton Heward

Aftermarket chokes can provide more effective patterns.
Guns

The Best Chokes for Pheasant Hunting

By Joe Genzel

Straight walls could supplant slug guns.
Guns

Will Straight-Wall Deer Rifles Kill the Slug Gun?

By Brad Fitzpatrick

Gun fit is critical.
Guns

How to Find a Shotgun That Fits You

By Bruce Buck

Fabarm XLR5 Chesapeake
Guns

Fabarm XLR5 Chesapeake Review: Italy’s Next Gas-Driven, 3-Inch Auto-Loader

By Joe Genzel

A Henry Atkin side-by-side.
Guns

How the Most Expensive Shotguns in the World Are Made

By John Taylor

DU guns
Guns

The Coolest Ducks Unlimited Dinner Guns of All Time

By John Gordon

Punt guns were used to kill large rafts of ducks during the market hunting days.
Guns

The Biggest Shotguns of All Time

By Joe Genzel

Take more premium shots on the dove opener.
Hunting

How to Take High Percentage Shots on the Dove Opener and Hit More Birds

By Joe Genzel

The Benelli Super Black Eagle 3 28-gauge.
Guns

The Best .410 and 28-Gauge Semi-Auto Shotguns

By John Gordon

The .280 has never let the author down.
Guns

A Western Big Game Hunting Guide’s 9 Favorite Guns

By Colton Heward

Mossberg 940 Pro Tactical Review: A Personal-Defense Firearm That’s a Capable Competition Shotgun
Guns

Mossberg 940 Pro Tactical Review: A Personal-Defense Firearm That’s a Capable Competition Shotgun

By Payton Miller

There are two types of recoil shotgunners need to be concerned with.
Guns

Shotgun Recoil: Here’s What Hunters and Shooters Need to Know

By Bruce Buck

Nash Buckingham's Bo Whoop.
Guns

If These Nine Shotgun Writers Could Only Have One Gun, Which Smoothbore Would They Pick?

By Joe Genzel

The Beretta A390 and SBE3 left eject.
Guns

Benelli vs. Beretta: Which Italian Shotgun Maker Is Your Favorite?

By Joe Genzel

The 105 CTi was a great concept that fell flat.
Guns

The Remington 105 CTi: A Semi-Auto that Almost Revolutionized Shotgun Design

By John M. Taylor

There are plenty of falsehoods being perpetuated by those that know very little about shotguns.
Guns

Shotgun and Shotshell Facts: The Hard Truths Behind Smoothbores and the Payloads They Shoot

By Joe Genzel

Two Remington sub-gauge Wingmasters.
Guns

5 Classic Shotguns You Must Buy at Your Local Gun Shop

By John Gordon

Benelli shotguns.
Guns

The 4 Benelli Shotguns That Inspired the Super Black Eagle

By Joe Genzel

Mossberg 940 Pro Turkey.
Guns

Mossberg 940 Pro Turkey Review

By Alex Robinson

Remington 870 Fieldmaster
Guns

Remington 870 Fieldmaster Review: Torture Testing the Shotgun That Will Replace the Express

By Joe Genzel

The Model 12 was designed by T.C. Johnson
Guns

10 Classic Shotguns Every Wingshooter Should Own

By Joe Genzel

Gunnving boxes were equipped with reloading supplies.
Guns

Everything You Need to Know About How the Shotshell Wad Works

By John M. Taylor

Brister invented this tow behind pattern board.
Guns

Three Things We Know About Shotgunning Thanks to the Legendary Bob Brister

By Joe Genzel

The SL5 was built for turkey hunters.
Guns

Shotgun Review: Sauer’s SL5 Is an Inertia-Driven Auto-Loader Built Specifically for Turkey Hunters

By Joe Genzel

The Stoeger M3000 Patterns well, but has some functionality issues.
Guns

Stoeger M3000 Shotgun Review

By Joe Genzel

The Benelli M1 Super 90 was one of the best shotguns ever built.
Guns

Benelli M1 Super 90: A Classic Duck Hunting Shotgun

By John Gordon