In the long-gone days of lead shot, choosing chokes for waterfowling was simple: the fuller, the better. A few hunters picked Modified for over-decoy shooting, but more often than not, in those days ...

A shotgun’s payload of pellets flies downrange in an expanding, lengthening swarm. The choke in the gun’s muzzle determines the height and width of that swarm. “Choke” is the taper in the last inches ...

It was like watching four guys use hollow Wiffle Ball bats to try hammering nails into a 2-by-4. A river of white-winged doves poured through the sky a few miles outside Uvalde, the birds headed from ...