There are plenty of shotgun and shotshell “truths” that simply aren’t, well, true. Many of these falsehoods are perpetuated by well-meaning folks that have not done the pattern work, don’t fully ...

But its absence in marshes across the U.S. has more to do with availability—not reliability—of the Italian-made smoothbores. For instance, the Fabarm XLR5 Chesapeake I just finished testing was one of ...

Whether brandished by Lee Marvin in “The Professionals” or wielded by William Holden in “The Wild Bunch,” the Winchester Model 97 Riot Gun is the “bad boy” of smoothbores, but ...

Nonetheless, smoothbores remain a supplemental revenue source to the company’s bread-and-butter rifle business. Early on, several shotgun types wore Savage’s famed (and now discontinued ...

Blackpowder pistols and cap and ball revolvers are lots of fun to shoot, but they take a backseat to all the shooters competing in the classes for rifles, smoothbores and muskets. With a little ...