Competition Guides & News 2026

Best Semi-Auto Shotguns for Clays and Waterfowl

Guide Shotguns

Best Semi-Auto Shotguns 2026: Clays and Waterfowl, Priced Live

- 1,254 live semi-auto listings , $164.99 to $3,649, median $1,039.99 . The pump median is $419.99 — the action roughly doubles the bill. - The "action tax" is not a fixed percentage. Charles Daly charges about 13% mo...

AmmoSpotter Research Desk · Oct 10, 2026 ·8 min

Guide Rifles & AR-15

Best Precision Rifles Under $2,000 (2026): What the Live Catalog Actually Offers

- We track 410 live centerfire precision-pattern bolt-action listings. 259 of them are under $2,000 , and the median of those is $1,179 — the budget is not the binding constraint. - The binding constraints are glass a...

AmmoSpotter Research Desk · Oct 8, 2026 ·8 min

Guide Handguns & Carry

Best 1911s at Every Price Tier (2026): 1,074 Live Listings, Tiered on Real Prices

- We track 1,074 live 1911 listings , from $249.99 to $8,614.99 , with a median of $1,049.99 . Over half the market — 566 listings — is priced at $1,000 or more. - The bottom of the category is not a bargain .45. The ...

AmmoSpotter Research Desk · Oct 7, 2026 ·8 min

Guide Optics & Sighting

MOA vs MRAD Explained: Which Scope Units to Buy in 2026

- MOA and MRAD are units of angle, not grades of quality. One minute subtends 1.047 inches at 100 yards; one milliradian subtends 3.6 inches at the same distance. - A quarter-MOA click is finer than a tenth-MRAD click...

AmmoSpotter Research Desk · Oct 1, 2026 ·9 min

Guide Shotguns

Shotgun Choke and Shot Size Chart: Constriction, Pellet Diameter and What Each Size Costs

Most choke charts are a table of constrictions someone copied off a Briley catalogue in 2009 and everyone has been reprinting since. They are usually correct and they are always incomplete, because they never answer t...

AmmoSpotter Research Desk · Sep 25, 2026 ·8 min

Guide Shotguns

Best 12 Gauge Target Loads for Clays 2026: What a Flat Actually Saves You

Clays is the only shooting discipline where you know, before you leave the house, exactly how much ammunition you are going to spend. A round of trap is 25 targets. That is one box. A hundred-target day is four boxes,...

AmmoSpotter Research Desk · Sep 25, 2026 ·8 min

Best .223 Ammo for Precision and Match Shooting

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Best .223 Match Ammo: Twist Rate First, Then Live Cost Per Round

Most .223 match-ammo advice starts with brands. That's the wrong starting point. Before you choose between Gold Medal, ELD Match and Black Hills, one number stamped on your barrel decides which of them can work at all...

AmmoSpotter Research Desk · Sep 21, 2026 ·7 min

Guide Gear & Accessories Hub

How Many Magazines Do You Actually Need?

Magazines are a rounding error next to what you spend on ammunition, and they cause a disproportionate share of malfunctions. That asymmetry is the whole argument: buying enough good magazines is the cheapest reliabil...

AmmoSpotter Research Desk · Jul 1, 2026 ·4 min

Competition

Best Semi-Auto Shotguns 2026: Clays and Waterfowl, Priced Live

Best Precision Rifles Under $2,000 (2026): What the Live Catalog Actually Offers

Best 1911s at Every Price Tier (2026): 1,074 Live Listings, Tiered on Real Prices

MOA vs MRAD Explained: Which Scope Units to Buy in 2026

Shotgun Choke and Shot Size Chart: Constriction, Pellet Diameter and What Each Size Costs

Best 12 Gauge Target Loads for Clays 2026: What a Flat Actually Saves You

Best .223 Match Ammo: Twist Rate First, Then Live Cost Per Round

How Many Magazines Do You Actually Need?

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