Make sure it’s not already loaded: Treat all guns as if they are loaded because sometimes they are. First, open the action, check the chamber, and check the magazine. Once you see the gun is unloaded, ...

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 ...

A shotgun shell can achieve anything from lightly peppering a clay target at close range to taking down a deer at 35 yards. And that huge variance in capability can all come out the business end of a ...

A man once asked me for advice about his goose gun. The recoil of 3 ½-inch shells caused the trigger guard of his gun to whack the middle finger of his hand, leaving him bruised and sore after the ...