Phil Bourjaily

3 weeks ago | fieldandstream.com | Phil Bourjaily

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn moreSmallbores 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.

3 weeks ago | fieldandstream.com | Phil Bourjaily

With the new ACE and the ACE-R shotguns, Retay USA wedges two variants of the same gun into the space between its top-of-the-line Masai Mara and its entry-level Gordion. The ACEs give you a lot of gun for just north of $1,000. Moreover, with the ACE guns, Retay has addressed a few of the quirks of their semiautos that put some buyers off.

1 month ago | fieldandstream.com | Phil Bourjaily

Trap is a simple game. The shots aren’t difficult, and the targets are the same everywhere you go. All you have to do is not miss. Then, you get into a shoot-off with everybody else who didn’t miss, and you don’t miss some more. Then you win. Being simple doesn’t make trap easy. It takes tremendous mental toughness to stay in the moment and focus only on breaking the next bird in competition.

1 month ago | fieldandstream.com | Phil Bourjaily

The recent introduction of a 3-inch magnum and the popularity of bismuth and TSS ammo have elevated the 28-gauge from a niche gun to America’s hot smallbore. Not long ago, the 28 was strictly a close-quarters upland and skeet gun. Now it’s turning up everywhere, from CRP pheasant fields to turkey woods to duck blinds. It’s light, cute, and doesn’t kick much. The 28 has a reputation, too, of punching above its weight ballistically.

2 months ago | outdoorlife.com | Phil Bourjaily

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › No other shotgun feels quite like an original Browning Auto 5 when it goes off. The entire barrel moves backward with the bolt, then forward as it picks up the next shell and returns to battery. That unique bouncing recoil sensation, the Auto 5’s many fans will tell you, is just one more way you know that you’re shooting the greatest semiauto shotgun ever made.