The new 3500 Predator/Turkey threw impressive patterns in our test. Phil Bourjaily We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Stoeger’s new 3500 Predator/Turkey is meant to be a two-season gun, ready for spring gobblers, winter coyotes, and anything else walking around that needs a heavy load of shot. As a 3 ½-inch 12-gauge, the 3500 Predator/Turkey can throw a lot of pellets at any problem. It would make a good deer gun, too, if you shoot deer with buckshot, and you could probably make a reasonable dent in a zombie horde ..read more

Phil Bourjaily We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Over/under shotguns are a rare sight in the turkey woods. And with its coat of Mossy Oak Greenleaf camo and its 20-inch barrels that keep its overall length to a stubby 37-½ inches, Mossberg’s new Silver Reserve Turkey is a gun that won’t be seen so much as heard. O/Us have their advantages for turkey hunting One is that two barrels give you a choice of chokes, so you can be ready for the long shots with an XX-Full turkey tube, and have an open-choked barrel ready ..read more

Keep your finger off the trigger until you’re ready to fire. Mossberg We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Gun safety is the most important part of being a gun owner and something sportsmen and women have always taken very seriously. I recently spent a week at Gunsite in Arizona preparing for a hunt I’ll be taking later this year. The instruction was second to none, but what really struck me about my time there was how safe the range was. The instructors there may fire thousands of rounds per year, but they never ge ..read more

A group of shooters on a sporting clays course. NSSF We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Clay birds make the best reactive targets of all. They come at you, fly away, cross, drop, bounce on the ground, and you never tire of seeing all the different ways they break: into big pieces, little pieces, or hanging puffs of dust. Trap, skeet, and sporting clays are the three most popular target games in the United States. All three help you become a better field shot, and all three can become addictive in their own right ..read more

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Every firearms owner needs a gun cleaning kit. After all, you don’t want to ruin a perfectly good gun just because you didn’t take care of it properly. While you could build your own, you can also find sets that come stocked with all the essentials. Like this Allen Company universal gun cleaning kit, which our experts dubbed one of the best out there. Right now, it’s on sale for 50 percent off. That means that you can snag the 66-piece kit for just $49—half of its original price ..read more

The Browning 725 Field .410 shotgun is a great turkey gun. Browning We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › The .410 shotgun is an American standby. Countless hunters and shooters got their first whiff of gunpowder as kids by pulling the trigger of a .410. It’s a classic and handy gun to keep close by for pest control, target shooting, and small game hunting. Still, finding the best .410 shotgun for you can be tricky because it’s a specialized gun that doesn’t fit into the same niches as the other gauges. The .410 has ..read more

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Whether you want to add a new firearm to your collection or stock up on ammo, Cabela’s is one of the best places to shop for both online. And right now, the outdoor retailer is having a huge sale on guns and ammo ahead of the 2024 hunting seasons. Get as much as $680 off shotguns, handguns, and rifles from top names like Glock, Savage Arms, and Winchester. Plus, save up to 45 percent on ammo for all of the above. Below we’ve scoured the site to find some of the best deals going o ..read more

The lineup of the best 20 gauge shotguns you can buy this year. Field & Stream We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Smallbores are in right now, and 20 gauge shotguns are having another moment. This current trend should last for a long time, too. New ammo for 20 gauges makes them almost as capable as a 12 gauge. As more hunters turn to the 20 gauge as their main gun, gunmakers are offering more choices, including dedicated models for waterfowling, turkey hunting, upland hunting, and clay shooting.  There’s ..read more

Field & Stream We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › While it was difficult to pinpoint a specific shotgun trend at this year’s SHOT Show, there’s something for every scattergunner in 2024—and some surprises too. Mossberg leaned into the trend for red dot optics on wing-shooting guns, which I never saw coming. On the other hand, I’ve been wondering when Browning would offer a 20-gauge A5, and now we have one, and people should love it. There are several target guns on this list—the Franchi Affinity Sport/Trap, th ..read more

Field & Stream Archives We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › For more than 100 years Field & Stream has been the wellspring of hunting and fishing knowledge. Since our wisdom is boundless, and can take a while to absorb at full length, we’ve distilled it into encyclopedia form. It’s a quick read, and at the end of it, you’ll be not only better informed, but a better person as well. A AND I DO NOT WALK ALONE Beginning in 1972, Field & Stream began a generational shift of its field editors. Many of them we ..read more