Palm Swells, “Tacticool” and Field Gun Performance

Palm Swells, “Tacticool” and Field Gun Performance

Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more “palm swells” on guns intended for field use. Whatever their merits or demerits on a target gun, they are mostly a hindrance to quick, reactive use on game, which seldom waits for you to call “pull” and seldom takes a certain,...
Improved Cylinder or Screw-In Chokes?

Improved Cylinder or Screw-In Chokes?

I generally regard screw-in choke tubes to be one of the greatest inventions since sliced bread. They lend a degree of versatility to shotguns that we could only dream of “back in the day.” I usually shun them on classic side-bys, but that’s probably just for...
Slow is Smooth. Smooth is Fast.

Slow is Smooth. Smooth is Fast.

A while back, I was quail hunting with a young friend who was struggling mightily with the little brown bullets. We were finding plenty of bobwhites in the piney woods of South Georgia, but my pal just couldn’t seem to get the hang of it. It wasn’t that he was a bad...