Some hunters quit waterfowling when steel shot replaced lead thirty years ago. Early steel loads weren’t as good as those we have now. They were inconsistent in both velocity and ignition. Water got ...

Break-action shotguns were once the only waterfowl guns a sportsman would consider. When pumps and semiautos first appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they were seen as the guns of ...

The best semi-auto shotguns fire rounds reliably and cycle quickly. Even in lighter platforms, they soak up recoil and swing to birds and clays naturally. It’s no wonder that so many waterfowlers, ...

As the sun rose this morning, Green Country was 24 hours into its waterfowl season (25 if you count the time change). And, no doubt, some hunters already are looking back wondering how they managed to ...

The new shotgun incorporates the modularity of a tactical shotgun. All this week I’ve been hunting ducks with Beretta’s brand-new AX800 Suprema. This tactical-esque gas gun is being touted as the new ...

Duck hunters require the most out of their shotguns. We hunt in the toughest and in the soggiest, swampiest places. I’ve seen what a season of hard hunting can do to a brand-new gun, so I wanted an ...

April is coming, and many turkey hunters are salivating over new choke tubes and the hottest new turkey loads. Turkey hunters aren't unique to the syndrome. It affects waterfowl hunters and target ...

When most duck hunters think about Italian semi-auto shotguns, they think Benelli or Beretta. That’s fair enough. Those two gunmakers have produced superlative waterfowling shotguns for many years and ...