Some hunters quit waterfowling when steel shot replaced lead thirty years ago. Early steel loads weren’t as good as those we have now. They were inconsistent in both velocity and ignition. Water got ...

Late-season waterfowl hunting presents a pair of good-news/bad-news scenarios, depending on the weather. On mild winter days, any gun should do the job. That’s the good news. The bad news is that wary ...

Thanks to modern metallurgy, waterfowl hunters have almost as many projectile options as deer hunters. That wasn't always true. A nationwide ban on using lead pellets for waterfowl hunting went into ...