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

With shotgun shells harder to find this summer, dove hunters are having to scramble before the Sept. 1 opener. Target loads are easier to find and could give hunters better down-range pattern. In my ...

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 ...