You cannot shoot a shotgun without loading it first, and you absolutely have to know how to load and unload a gun if you’re going to use it safely. Not every shotgun loads as intuitively as you might ...

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Like anything, you can take patterning a shotgun too far. A turkey hunter told me once he spent $1,000 one winter buying XX-Full chokes and magnum loads for his guns, then he patterned them all to ...

Well, that may have backfired a little. Democratic VP hopeful Tim Walz tried to showcase his hyped-up firearm skills at a hunting event Saturday, but detractors quickly seized on his apparent ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was the subject of social media scorn after he was caught on video struggling to load his shotgun during a pheasant hunt. "Tim Walz claimed he carried ‘weapons of war in combat ...

After posting footage of the real-life Halo M90 top-loading shotgun, viewers asked a simple question: why don’t we use top-loading shotguns in real life? This video digs into that question — examining ...

The business end of sending a slug through a shotgun barrel has seen serious upgrading since scatter-gunners first loaded a single chunk of lead into a shotgun shell. At the middle of the last century ...

I think a lot of people under appreciate the difficulty of making a reliable self-loading shotgun. Between the rimmed case, wadcutter-type cylindrical shape, varying shell length, and massive ...