Shotgun patterning target with infographic for shot string and lead pellets

How To Pattern A Shotgun

Want to hit more birds—clay or feathered? Then you need to spend some time at the patterning board. Patterning your shotgun is as important as sighting-in your rifle before going afield. Here’s why.

Product Preview: Winchester Pattern Board

The best way to determine how a shotgun will pattern a given shotshell load at different ranges is to actually shoot a few through the gun and analyze the results—however, Winchester’s new Pattern Board app is not a bad second option.

Pre-Season Shotgun Patterning, Part 1

Patterning your shotgun now can be the key to a fast start in the season's first skeet, trap and sporting clays tournaments.

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