Features
W.R. Pape
The father of choke boring & a shameless self-promoter
A High-Arctic Adventure
Hunting ptarmigan and fishing for big brookies with High Arctic Adventures in northern Quebec.
American Gold
American engraver Eric Gold is making his mark
High & Low Blues
Searching the Montana wild for blue grouse
Snow Time!
In pursuit of snow and Ross’ geese in Saskatchewan
- Photography by: Bill Buckley
The Backup Dog
When the second-stringer steps up
- Illustrations by: Peggy Watkins
Food for Thought
Feeding dogs for peak performance
Doggone Good Gear
Reviewing a new anti-bark collar, a safety collar, an e-collar, a dietary supplement, a bird-launcher and a slick training vest.
Departments
From the Editor
Reaffirming our commitment to canines
- Photography by: Ralph P. Stuart
Letters
Yays & nays on skeet & clays, and another fan of female shooters
New Readers & Writers Adventures
Fourteen years ago an idea was born to bring together a few Shooting Sportsman writers with a few more Shooting Sportsman readers for a few days of bird hunting. Since then, through our Readers & Writers Adventures program, we’ve hosted hundreds of readers on dozens of exciting trips.
Game & Gun Gazette
Guerini USA Completes Custom Shop, Holloway & Naughton’s Ryder Cup Gun, A Class for Double-Gun ’Smiths, The Toy Box, A Hurculean Reference Work on Sauer, An ‘Experimental’ Beesley
Guerini Completes Custom Shop
This past February Guerini USA completed its Custom Shop and Service Center at its Cambridge, Maryland, headquarters, where it will offer a wide array of custom options for its popular Caesar Guerini line of Italian-made over/under shotguns.
Shooting
See the line—follow the line
Shot Talk
Innovative shotshells from Jay Menefee and Polywad
Conservation
Who cries for the heath hen?
Shot Talk
Performance-testing RST’s specialty shells
Sporting Clays
Shooting your best with both eyes open
Gun Review
Smitten with the sequel: the lovely & lively RBL-28
Guncraft
Demystifying British color case hardening, Part I
Book Review
Ridley, Anisfield, Milner and McIntosh
Prairie King Wingshooting
James Brion, owner of Prairie King Wingshooting, owns and leases 70,000 private acres of this gorgeous Nebraska country and offers hunting for a variety of birds and big game. His primary passion, however, is the greater prairie chicken.
The Major
Philly to Phoenix and then foiled by foibles
- Illustrations by: Loren Smith
