You see it all the time — shotguns from various manufacturers, big and small, billed as as tactical shotgun. They're usually all black with a full-length mag tube, but other than that, what makes a "tactical" model different from a field or target ...
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Guide to Olympic Shooting Events and What Team USA Is Up To
Shooting events don't get all the glory at the Summer Olympic Games — not the way mainstream sports like swimming, track, and gymnastics do. But if you watched the 2020 games in Tokyo, you know that shooting events are plenty of fun to watch. And the ...
Triple Barrel Shotgun: Novelty or Practical Firearm?
The shotgun market is one of the most diverse segments of the firearm industry. An over-under, side-by-side, single-shot, pump gun, semi-automatic (inertia or gas), and even the occasional lever action are all still options in the 2020s. But what ...
The Turkey Shotgun: What You Want in a Dedicated Gobbler Getter
Shotguns have a well-deserved reputation for being jacks of all trades. They are probably the most versatile firearms on the planet. When paired with the right ammo, a single good scattergun can drop everything from tiny upland quail to big burly ...
Credit Card Giants Back Away From Tracking Gun Purchases
The credit card industry has taken a huge step back from plans announced in September 2022 to use a new merchant category code (MCC) to track gun and ammunition purchases made with plastic in the United States. Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., American ...
The Over Under Shotgun Is Not As Old As You Think
The over under shotgun dominates the break-action category today. The majority of hunters and all but a very few target shooters prefer the narrow-sight picture of an O/U to the wider view down the barrels of a side-by-side. Over unders are ...
Best Selling Guns of 2022 on GunBroker: Numbers Are In!
Gun sales are a nebulous thing — they’re hard to keep track of, and that’s a good thing from a 2A perspective. Usually, we use the number of background checks run through the NICS system in a given time period to get a general idea of how many guns ...
The DP-12 Shotgun: A Wild Design That Works
Remember when you were a kid, and you used to draw all kinds of zany inventions that could never work in real life? Every so often, somebody’s bizarre contraption makes it into the real world. In the world of firearms, there might be no better ...
Vet-Owned Apex Ammo Drops New TSS Turkey Shells for Spring
Apex Ammunition is offering Mossy Oak Greenleaf Turkey TSS Blend, a new line of shotgun shells, just in time for spring turkey season. This new ammunition is available in 12-gauge 2 1/4-ounce and 20-gauge 1 5/8-ounce loads; both are 3-inch shells. ...
Hottest New Guns and Ammo from the 2023 SHOT Show!
It’s that magical time of year. The hordes descend upon the city in the sand that has no earthly right to exist: an oasis of light and sin in the middle of the desert that plays host to the hunting and shooting world — and all the coolest new guns — ...
Military Shotguns: The History of Scatterguns Issued by the U.S.
Winchester’s Model 1897 was one of the first modern U.S. military shotguns to be used in the World Wars. Called a “trench gun,” the Model 97 was a critical weapon American soldiers used to clear trenches during combat. The fighting was at close ...
New Mossberg Turkey Guns: Red-Dot Ready M500s, 835 Ulti-Mag
New Mossberg Turkey Guns: Compatible with Shield RMSc baseplate red dotsTop-mounted ambidextrous safetyMossy Oak Greenleaf camo Mossberg is expanding its hunting lineup to include three new turkey shotguns from the pump-action 835 Ulti-Mag and ...
10 Gauge Shotgun: Is There a Reason for it to Still Exist?
There are definitely a few reasons to get a 10 gauge shotgun before they're all gone, and yes, they truly are vanishing from the shotgun landscape like an endangered species. That's not to say every hunter should get one. Let's break that down a ...
The 410 Shotgun: Incredibly, Improbably Popular
The .410 remains incredibly, improbably popular. A lot of people use a 410 shotgun for a lot of things, most of which the little shell is completely unsuited for. The skinny .410 hull doesn’t hold much shot to begin with, and it often shoots terrible ...
The Small Arms U.S. Marines Used to Win WWI
From June 1917 to November 1918, U.S. Marines earned a reputation for being ferocious and unrelenting on the battlefield. Between the opening shots fired at the Battle of Belleau Wood and the routing of German forces in the Argonne Forest, Marines ...
Hunting Accident Roundup: Hunter Falls, Left Hanging by Boot
On Halloween night, a Texas bowhunter survived one of the most terrifying things that can happen to a hunter — he fell almost 20 feet from a treestand and wound up hanging upside down by his boot. It was a hunting accident that could easily have been ...
Sauer Graces SL5 Shotguns With Old School Fred Bear Camo
German firearms manufacturer J.P. Sauer & Sohn now offers its SL5 semi-automatic shotgun in three new waterfowl configurations inspired by legendary hunter Fred Bear. One features full-on Fred Bear Old School Camo, one uses the pattern on the ...
Legacy Sports Int. Announces Citadel LEVTAC .410 Lever Gun
Model: Citadel LEVTAC ShotgunPicatinny rail for easy optics installationBlack synthetic stockLarge loop leverModular metal M-LOK forendSwivel studs for easy sling attachment Why should people who dig rifles and carbines get all the fun of tricking ...
Clerk, 80, Uses Hunting Skills and a Shotgun to Stop Armed Robbery
Eighty-year-old Craig Cope credits his childhood hunting experience for the quick-thinking and stellar shotgunning skills that saved his California liquor store and possibly his life from a group of would-be armed robbers, and he has become internet ...
Rifles 101: How To Adjust and Zero Iron Sights
Although optics are all the rage now, many still like the simplicity and dependability of good old iron sights. They make a great backup as well. However, if the front and rear sights are not properly aligned your shot placement and overall ...
16 Gauge: What The Cool Kids Are Shooting
After decades of decline and neglect, the 16-gauge is getting a lot of attention right now; it’s the in gauge. I recently told a friend who is a double-gun expert that I was trying to talk myself into a 16, but I couldn’t find a reason. Stuck in a ...
Is the 20 Gauge Shotgun the New 12-Gauge?
You hear it all the time these days from waterfowlers and turkey hunters: “I don’t need a 12-gauge anymore.” “I’ve switched to a 20. It’s all anyone needs,” they’ll tell you. They are almost right. With the introduction of TSS turkey loads, improved ...
Why Hunters Pattern Their Shotguns: Dialing-In Your Turkey Killer
Many hunters go their entire lives taking the just let ‘er eat approach to shotgunning. And they never truly know where their shot is flying. These are the hunters who routinely whiff on gobblers that go scuttling off to roost another night. Then ...
Modern Turkey Loads: Worth The Money, Maybe
Turkey hunting can be described in one of two ways: awesome or brutal. Sometimes you get a tom to commit, and the deal goes down just like you planned. No matter how great your hide or calls are, birds will come in and get hung up in thick ...
The 12 Gauge Shotgun: The Only Gauge You Really Need
Indeed, at close range, there is no better gun than a 12 gauge shotgun for wolverines. Also, for wombats, wigeons, wapiti, wobble trap, or woodcock — and that goes for every other letter of the alphabet. Don: “Hey, Napoleon. What did you do last ...
The Most Expensive Shotguns of All Time
The concept of a shotgun is fairly simple by firearm design standards. At its most basic, a shotgun is a hammer, trigger, chamber, a smoothbore barrel or two, and a stock. It's kind of amazing to think that a contraption consisting of little more ...
28 Gauge and the Secrets of Its Supposed ‘Magic’
Within the limitations of its light payload, the 28 gauge shotshell drops small game birds and crushes clay targets with authority and minimal recoil. You can shoot the 28 gauge out of dainty, scaled-down guns that are a pleasure to carry. Grouse, ...
Shotgun Shells: The Most Important Developments of the Past 10 Years
You would immediately recognize shotgun shells from the 1860s as shotgun shells. They would have brass cases, but you could put one in your modern shotgun and fire it, as long as you didn’t mind cleaning the corrosive black powder and primer residue ...
Peters Paper Shotshells are Back! Remington Reintroduces the Legend
The legend returns! Remington has re-introduced the Peters Paper line of shotshells. As part of Remington’s revitalization under Vista Outdoors, the legendary line of shotgun shells is making its return. What Makes these Shells ...
Too Efficient at Maiming and Killing? Here Are the Top 5 Combat Shotguns
Americans began fielding shotguns on the battlefield during the final stretch of World War I and with great effect. German soldiers, who had regularly utilized chlorine gas on their enemies, found the wounds left by the weapons to be egregious and ...
