After eight years of grousing, duck hunters are getting a reprieve from the steel-shot mandate. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has temporarily approved the use of bismuth shot as an alternative to ...

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All things being equal, to increase pattern density you need more pellets in the shell. And with practical limits on velocity ...

Thanks to modern metallurgy, waterfowl hunters have almost as many projectile options as deer hunters. That wasn't always true. A nationwide ban on using lead pellets for waterfowl hunting went into ...

Winchester still loads a modest-velocity 12-gauge Super X “Pigeon Load” for upland hunters, but in larger shot sizes as well as the traditional 7 ½ and 8. At 1220 fps to 1255fps, they are slow by ...