The right choke for pheasant hunting will help you put enough pellets in a ringneck’s vitals to drop the bird immediately. Pheasants are big, tough birds, often shot going away, at distances ...

410. I think that 80 to 90 hits is solid performance. Below 80 hits, you’ll see fairly large gaps between pellets and risk wounding a bird, so you’d have to shoot at closer ranges when hunting.

Like many turkey hunters, I killed my first birds with lead loads and simply ... Photo by Alex Robinson This combo put 439 pellets in a 10-inch circle. That would be overkill in most normal hunting ...