The shotgun has played an important role throughout the history of firearms. From matchlock and flintlock “fowlers” to today’s wide array, shotguns can be considered multitask tools because they can ...

shows that 12-gauge slugs dominate the hunting community, but in many ways 20-gauge slugs are a better choice. Recent advances in slug technology have trimmed the margin between the two. The smaller ...

Bigger isn’t always better, and recent advances in slug technology have hunters ditching the 12 gauge in favor of the svelte 20. The downsized slugs hit nearly as hard as their larger counterparts, ...

After a few thousand rounds and lots of shoulder pain, Randy Fritz might have come up with the next best thing in 20-gauge slug ammo. Randy Fritz told me the other day that he’s weeks away from ...

It has been years since I last spent time hunting whitetails. Although I was mostly an avid bow hunter, I did some shotgun slug hunting in southeastern Minnesota as well as rifle hunting in the ...

When considering the proper firearm tool for law enforcement, there isn’t a catch-all. Every tool has its positive qualities, like the portability of the handgun and the range of a bolt-action rifle, ...

Hunting deer with a shotgun is not the "hit or miss" thing it was a few years ago. There have been a lot of advancements in the technology of slug manufacturing which has resulted in increased ...

The business end of sending a slug through a shotgun barrel has seen serious upgrading since scatter-gunners first loaded a single chunk of lead into a shotgun shell. At the middle of the last century ...

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While visiting a friend’s Arkansas deer camp last year, I was amazed at the variety of guns being used by the 10 guys who were members of the camp. In fact, there were so many different variations, I ...

A new study has shown how effective citizen scientists are in accurately identifying species and gathering reliable ecological data. Using data from a project focused on slug species diversity in ...