Features
The A-10 American
Connecticut Shotgun’s wonder over/under
Hunting the Hare-Footed Grouse
Ptarmigan pursuits in the wind-scoured lands
Friends Reunited
Bringing a pair of Boss hammerguns together again
Dixie ’Doodles
Reuniting with woodcock in the Lone Star State
Bay of Cans
Celebrating canvasbacks on Chesapeake Bay
Below Willoughby Falls
Ebbs & flows in the Northeast Kingdom
Backyard Clays
Setting up your own shooting ground
Huntng for Shooting Accessories
Who came first, the shooter or the hunter? In my experience they arrived about the same time. The BB gun I carried as a kid while tramping Michigan pheasant fields with my father was the same one I used for plinking soda cans.
Departments
From the Editor
The joys of shooting and our Special Sporting Clays Section
Letters
Giving jointing its due, a pattern book & fun firsts
Game & Gun Gazette
Readers & Writers Adventures, She-nanigans, sharptails, etc.
2011 Readers & Writers Adventures
It's time to start planning for this fall's hunts, and Shooting Sportsman has a great selection of Readers & Writers Adventures to choose from. From mixed-bag hunting in South Dakota and Oregon to a classic Southern bobwhite hunt in Georgia, there are trips for all tastes and budgets. Check them out!
Remembering Ed Muderlak
The first time I met Ed Muderlak in person was at the Grand Ole Opry Gun Show in Nashville in 1995. I’d talked to Ed numerous times after he’d joined the Parker Gun Collectors Association in 1993, and I can truthfully say I don’t think I ever finished a conversation with him without having learned something new.
She-nanigans at the Homestead
This May there will be an opportunity for 100 women to travel to the prestigious Homestead Resort, in Hot Springs, Virginia, to take part in a ladies-only shooting weekend called Shotguns & She-nanagins. Hosted by Elizabeth Lanier of Lanier Shooting Sports, this inaugural, all-inclusive event is designed to foster and encourage women’s participation in the shotgun sports.
The Sandhills Sharptail Shootout
If you yearn for a challenging, genuine, wild-bird hunting experience, then The Sandhills Sharptail Shootout, hosted by the town of Mullen, Nebraska, is for you. The Sharptail Shootout is an amateur sporting competition in which up to 20 five-member teams, limited to one box of 25 shells per team, see how many prairie grouse they can harvest in one day with the fewest shots.
Shooting
The proper way to introduce women to shooting
Fine Gunmaking
The art and career path of engraver Sam Welch
Hunting Dogs
Defy Murphy’s Law: Guarantee the outcome
Shot Talk
Assessing sub-gauge-shot quality through pattern testing
Going Places
Clays, hunting and more at West Virginia’s Greenbrier Resort
The Major
Of hedging bets and scratching backs
