Matching Game to Shotgun Caliber

Video Transcript

"We're here today to talk about hunting with shotguns. What we'd like to talk about now is selecting the proper shotgun for the game that we're hunting. As I just implied, the proper shotgun is based, directly, upon the game that we're hunting. The larger the game, generally speaking, the larger the distance that we'll be shooting, the larger the gauge of shotgun, that we will want to shoot. When we talk about large gauge shotguns, we're actually talking about a larger gauge being a smaller number. A twelve gauge shotgun is a bigger gun, a bigger shotgun, then, for example, a twenty gauge shotgun. What we've got in mind then is what type of game are we hunting? If we're hunting, for example, squirrels or partridge, grouse, same thing as partridge, wood cock, upland game birds, we'd be looking for a smaller type shotgun, a twenty gauge, four ten, perhaps, a sixteen gauge. If we're going to be hunting turkeys or deer or some of these other animals, we're going to be looking at shooting a twelve gauge. Very rarely do you hear of a ten guage or a twenty eight gauge so we won't even talk about those."