Half a century ago, when a Montana kid just started hunting, 20-gauge shotguns were considered appropriate for women and kids. Grown men primarily used 12 gauges, because “everybody” knew any shotgun with a smaller hole in the muzzle wasn’t enough for tougher upland birds such as pheasan...
If your version of an all-around shotgun is a mix of dove, pheasant and spring turkey hunting, along with a bit of clays to keep yourself in form, a twenty gauge is ideal. Gauges do not mean all that much, it is payload and velocity that do the work on game. Over the last sever...
situation with family or work. Even with a substantial amount of concentration on gauges, and sway correction required by the blast of passing trucks, and the GPS, and road signs, and the current pulse of passengers, there are open stretches where I can mentally wander into scarcely trodden ...