Mossberg’s sole hunting shotgun introduction at 2025 SHOT Shot was a bit of a surprise in this age of straightwall deer rifles. The company announced a trio of Model 500 Slugsters, including a ...

Slug hunters have more options than simply dragging their turkey gun into the deer woods. Check out a few options built specifically for deer hunting. by Ralph M. Lermayer "Shotgun slugs are a fact of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several Coastal N.C. hunting areas do not allow centerfire rifles for hunting deer. As I hunted in pouring rain at one of them, Bladen Lakes Game Land, I pondered whether my muzzleloading rifle would ...

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 ...

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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 ...