Most of the older, major-trademark American shotgun manufacturers, including Parker Brothers, A.H. Fox, Ithaca and L.C. Smith, offered a lineup of single-shot trap models in addition to their more ...

Trap is a simple game. The shots aren’t difficult, and the targets are the same everywhere you go. All you have to do is not miss. Then, you get into a shoot-off with everybody else who didn’t miss, ...

I grew up on a single barrel shotgun. I don’t claim to be the only one, but I am among those ranks. In my neck of the woods kids usually graduated from a BB gun to a .22 rifle (open sights) and then ...

Trap guns are as specialized as shotguns get. There’s not much you can do with them other than break trap targets, but they are supremely adapted for that role. Long and heavy to point surely and soak ...

The first production Ruger Red Labels were 20 gauges, not 12s (though both gauges were announced at the same time). Two years later, Ruger launched the 12-guage followed by a 28 in 1994. From its ...