Make sure your shotgun is shooting the best possible patterns before upland and waterfowl seasons open. Here’s a step-by-step guide Like anything, you can take patterning a shotgun too far. A turkey ...

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A shotgun’s payload of pellets flies downrange in an expanding, lengthening swarm. The choke in the gun’s muzzle determines the height and width of that swarm. “Choke” is the taper in the last inches ...

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, ...

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