Shotgunning
The Zen of Wingshooting
The Zen of Wingshooting All live in the moment when ducks are over decoys By Kyle Wintersteen My dog (and yours, I imagine) has this remarkable, downright enviable ability to live life [...]
Pattern Pros Service Helps Conserve Waterfowl
Pattern Pros Service Helps Conserve Waterfowl It’s often said that the greatest conservation move a waterfowl hunter can make is to hunt in the company of a well-trained retriever. A good dog is [...]
Barrel Length Ballistics
Barrel Length Ballistics Adding or decreasing a few inches of barrel can enhance wingshooting By Brad Fitzpatrick I once asked a skilled skeet shooter why he strictly shot guns with 30-inch barrels. Certain [...]
Perfecting Your Pattern
Perfecting Your Pattern Get your duck gun dialed in with these useful patterning tips.
11 Foolproof Excuses for Your Next Missed Shot
11 Foolproof Excuses for Your Next Missed Shot By Kyle Wintersteen, Managing Editor The brilliantly adorned January greenhead slipped in on cupped wings, then hovered like a helicopter over my edge [...]
Pattern Density vs. High Velocity
Pattern Density vs. High Velocity Would you rather have blistering speed or pack more pellets? By Kyle Wintersteen When non-toxic shot laws went into effect in 1992, the initial steel shells [...]
Wisconsin Wingshooting Course
Wisconsin Wingshooting Course Get on target this season by reviewing the fundamentals of hitting ducks and geese.
Don’t Let a Chill Come Over Your Shooting
Don’t Let a Chill Come Over Your Shooting By Kyle Wintersteen Your shooting might have been stellar in October, but when the mercury dips, everything changes. Don’t let fully plumed greenheads [...]
A Promise to My Shotgun
A Promise to My Shotgun Kyle Wintersteen, Managing Editor Dear Shotgun, Dad long ago instilled in me that if you shoot a gun, you clean a gun. A rusty shotgun, he said, [...]
How to Hit Teal
How to Hit Teal Kyle Wintersteen, Managing Editor SHOTSHELL MANUFACTURERS have no greater allies than blue-winged and green-winged teal. The diminutive ducks destroy shooting averages, confounding us with their unpredictable aerobatics. Yet [...]
Five Reasons You’re Missing Ducks
Five Reasons You’re Missing Ducks Kyle Wintersteen, Managing Editor In considering the teal’s acrobatics, the pintail’s agility and the raw speed of canvasbacks and mallards, is it any wonder that [...]