Patterning your shotgun is the only way to learn its effective range. Testing your gun with different choke and loads can increase your hitting percentages by helping you find the ideal pattern spread ...

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 ...

Turkey season opens in just 75 days, and now is a good time to start preparing. If you are new to turkey hunting or if you plan on using a different turkey load or a different choke tube than usual, ...