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 ...

Seemingly simple, selecting the proper turkey load is anything but a grab-and-go proposition nowadays. Instead, it requires ...

Since there’s nothing more discouraging than watching a ringneck or pintail turn on the afterburners and disappear without as much as a ruffled feather, now is the time to check the pattern on your ...

Warm weather has roused turkey hunters from their slumber, sending them afield for dawn patrols on lonely roads listening for gobbles. Finding and patterning turkeys is helpful, but it's also ...

It is an unfortunate fact that the vast majority of shotgunners head into the field each fall without first proving their scattergun’s real-world performance on a patterning board. This ...

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, ...

THE WASHINGTON TIMES Turkey hunters, take note. Roy Rhodes, a former world duck calling champion and winner of a national turkey calling championship, now wants to help shotgunners hit their mark more ...