The A400 Xtreme Plus is more than just a soft-shooter. We looked at what you get for the money with every one of the guns we tested, and we picked a Great Value award, too.
The question is not how much to spend, but how to get the most out of whatever money is in your waterfowl gun budget.
We know that waterfowl guns have to be versatile enough to tackle birds from 10-ounce teal up to giant Canada geese and 20-pound tundra swans. Our test team- F&S editor-in-chief Colin Kearns, Outdoor Life editor-in-chief Alex Robinson, OL editor Joe Genzel, and myself-has hunted all over the U.S., and in a few other countries. We’re here to help-especially if helping means taking 17 shotguns to Texas for a September teal hunt that doubled as a test for the best duck hunting shotguns. That means 50,000 or more new or reactivated hunters went afield last year, and many of those may be looking for a new duck hunting shotgun for this fall. People stuck at home last year went hunting, causing waterfowl hunter numbers to buck their downward trend and increase.