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 ...

At my gun club’s range the other day, one of the other members let me shoot a couple of his straight-wall deer rifles . He told me that before he found the right bullets, he had lost a couple of ...

Welcome to 2024! I had a question for a reader who had moved to Nebraska recently. He asked if slugs were allowed and effective for hunting deer. It did not say in his note where he was from, but ...

Lancaster County deer hunters who use firearms hunt in Chester County for the same reason Lancaster County archery hunters hunt in Chester County: big bucks. Chester County has long been regulated as ...

Before I ever got serious about patterning turkey guns, chokes, and loads, I believed the 12 gauge was the king of the turkey woods — and always would be. Like many turkey hunters, I killed my first ...

It all happened very innocently in the B&J Shooting Supply gun shop in Albany, when my friend Dave Rooney of Saratoga Springs handed me a used, scoped, Browning BPS 20-gauge slug gun with a cantilever ...