Features

Vintage Duck Guns

Waterfowling with classic smoothbores

by Matthew Every

Auroras of Autumn

Notes from an Alberta duck blind

by Robert Parvin Williams

Chasing Shadows

Climbing for dusky grouse in New Mexico

by Chad Love

Blind Faith

Veterans find meaning in waterfowling

by Russell Worth Parker

Departments

From the Editor

Witnessing the making of a duck dog

The Opener

Bobbing on the bay for big-water divers

Game & Gun Gazette 

A new Readers & Writers Adventure. Hound & Hare’s next chapter, Rigby’s resurrection, Hunt.Vet and more

Gun Review

The Grulla 216RB: a carved beauty fir for the fied

by Greg Carpiniello

Field Gear

What’s new for waterfowlers

by The Editors

To the Point

Lessons learned from a slow day in the blind

by Tom Huggler

Scattershot

The Gun Rack

The Browning Citori 825

by Joe Genzel

Shooting

Tips & tricks for dropping more ducks

by Phil Bourjaily

Shot Talk

Demystifying chokes and making recommendations

by Tom Roster

Hunting Dogs

The ways in which dog training has changed

by Tom Keer

ON THE COVER: 

A black Lab with a green-winged teal photographed by Tom Martineau/ wildfrontimages.com (see p. 86).