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Shotgun Life is the first online magazine devoted to the great people who participate in the shotgun sports. Our goal is to provide you with the best coverage in wing and clays shooting, including places to shoot, ways to improve your shooting and the latest new products. Just because a clay target is called a “bird” doesn’t mean it has a brain, wings or instincts. For someone stepping from a skeet field into pheasant field it can be a humbling (and expensive) lesson to learn that the techniques and temperament acquired with clays shooting don’t automatically make us great wingshooters. Someti ..read more

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