Thursday, July 19, 2018

Shooting Illustrated Special Edition: Best Home-Defense Shotgun Features

 
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Shooting Illustrated Reloaded
Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2018
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Unless you grew up on an Argentinian dove field with an eight-shot Benelli in your clutches, you likely don't move and reload as fluently as you should while shooting a shotgun. Read More

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People used to call the original 16-shot Henry "a rifle that you could load on Sunday and shoot all week." What would they have said about the new Kel-Tec KSG-25 shotgun... Read More

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