Either gauge may suit you, depending on exactly what you need a shotgun for. Here’s how they compare for various purposes: Deer can be taken with solid shotgun slugs or with large buckshot pellets.

After years of getting bigger, turkey shotguns are now shrinking as small-gauge options attract interest among hunters. That’s just as true in 2025 as it was in ’24, when we saw a raft of new ...

9s. It’s 269 pellets inside a 10-inch-diameter circle. Alex Robinson To put the Gordion’s 40-yard performance in context, it patterned as well as the 12-gauge shotguns that we used in our review of ...