Features
2010 Shotgun Showcase
Highlighting the year’s new sporting guns
High-Plains Roosters
Wild Kansas pheasants with Craney Hill Kennel
The Ruggs Riders
Saddle-up hunting in Eastern Oregon
- By: Roger Sanger & Steve Helsley
Mainely Woodcock
Chasing timberdoodles in Western Maine
Letting Go
A duck-hunt reminder of things left behind
Lodges of Distinction
Pheasants & fine times in South Dakota
Departments
From the Editor
The Southern Side by Side Championship and our Rio Piedra Adventure
Letters
Barnegat builder, Hunter One-Trigger, a new featherweight favorite, etc.
Game & Gun Gazette
Summer gunning, Rigby’s, Tony Kennedy, a better barrel gauge, and more
Summer Gunning
The spring/summer lineup of double-gun and vintage shooting events
Shooting
A few things shooters could do without
Fine Gunmaking
Doug Mann: a custom stocker specializing in American doubles
Shot Talk
Pondering the unknowable questions from a curious crowd
Hunting Dogs
A training sequence & timetable for pointing dogs
Sporting Clays
Shooting the sporting side-by-side
Guncraft
Jointing “on the circle” as a true measure of “best” gunmakers
Field Gear
New boots, bags & more from the SHOT Show
Going Places
Alaska’s Crystal Creek Lodge for pointing dogs and ptarmigan
The Major
Random digressions on the plight of the common loon