Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are still a ton of great Browning Auto 5 shotguns in the used market. No other shotgun feels quite like an original Browning ...

Browning’s introduction of the A5 semiauto in Sweet 16 should, I hope, raise the 16 gauge’s profile a little. With the Sweet 16, Browning did it right. Rather than put a 16-gauge barrel on a 12-gauge ...

During the latter part of the 19 th century and first half of the 20 th, the 16-gauge shotgun was a very popular bore size, especially for upland hunting applications. Often referred to by admirers as ...

It would be rash to say there's fresh interest in 16-gauge shotguns, but hunters that have these forgotten classics are fiercely loyal to them. We recently revisited the 16-gauge after my friend Jess ...

My first shotgun was an Ithaca 12-gauge pump action that my dad bought at Gary's Gun Shop in Sioux Falls. I used it for a year or two before buying my own, a new Browning BPS 12 gauge that served me ...

The classic pheasant gun is a 12- or 16-gauge repeater, chosen because ringneck pheasants are tough and often found in bunches. When the air is full of cackling roosters, as it commonly was back in ...

The shotgun always sat in the same place, a corner in the old farmhouse bedroom next to the closet. It was not a Sweet Sixteen by any means. It was plain Jane, more utilitarian like the tractors ...

DEWITT -- I've had some great goose hunts, but none was as cool as the Purple Hull Society's outing Jan. 31 at Roger Turner's farm near DeWitt. Jess "The Undertaker" Essex, a founding member of the ...