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 ...

If you’re skipping the step of patterning your shotgun, you’re leaving accuracy and consistency up to chance. Patterning is the process of testing how your shotgun distributes pellets on a target at ...

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 ...