Features
Crafting in Basque
Tracing the path of gunmaking in Spain
Picking a Pro
Honest advice on vetting a dog trainer
Guns of Scotland
Touring three top shops in the space of a day
Fielding Emergencies
On being prepared to properly deal with injuries
The New Wave of Electronics
What's new in the world of e-gear
Quail Hunting's New Good Old Days, Part I
Bobwhite restoration success and fresh hope in the South
Beaver Moon
A stolen duck hunt from a beaver-lodge blind
The Pigeons of Paraguay
Picazuro, plague, pest-a pigeon by any name (or in any language) means great shooting. On Paraguay's Gran Chaco plain, it's Columba picazuro-a hearty, hard-flying bird that draws the ire of local farmers but the attention of appreciative wingshooters. Spring in Northern climes is fall south of the equator
- Photography by: Clair Kofoed
Departments
From the Editor
There's a stream about 20 minutes from the house where we've spent many a duck opener for the past dozen years. It's small water, with an occasional riffle but mostly slow current slipping through deep, dark pools. The grassy banks support alders, spruce and oaks, which hover over the flow plunking acorns
Letters
Reflections & Corrections As an "outdoor" and gun writer for 35 years, I will tell you that the magazine is simply the best of its genre. As a longtime subscriber, I do have reflections on a few subjects. First, I miss Michael McIntosh's and David Trevallion's Techicana column but applaud Steven Dodd
Concours Heads to Chicago
The Gold Medal Concours d'Elegance of Fine Guns is heading to the Chicago area. The twice-annual event is held in the fall with The Vintage Cup, at Orvis Sandanona, in Millbrook, New York, and in the spring at locations farther west. GMC IX will take place on Saturday, May 14, in conjunction with the
The Historical Novel Takes Up a Parker
A review of "Knight of the Trigger"
The GMC's NRA-Benefit Sweepstakes
Last year's Searcy .470 is back up for grabs. At the Vintage Cup banquet last September, NRA President Kayne Robinson drew sweepstakes ticket No. 0563 for the Searcy double rifle that had been donated to raise funds for the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action. Gold Medal Concours founders Roger Sanger
Charles F. Waterman - 1913-2005
Charley Did It All
The "Yooper" Side-by-Side Classic
It may not be the biggest among side-by-side shooting events, but it's one of the most beloved among participants. The Upper Peninsula Side-by-Side Classic is the shoot that people talk about long after their black-fly bites have healed, perhaps because it is so totally isolated that everyone who's attended
National Side-by-Side Festival Changes Venues
The Vintagers' second fling at a big Midwestern shoot and exhibition has moved to an impressive new venue and added new fields of competition, including an old-school take on skeet and the English variation of two-barrel trap. Because of the quality of the facility-Northbrook Sports Club, in Hainesville,
Fine Gunmaking
Evolution of the Sidelock, Part II
Shooting
Upper Management
Shot Talk
Technical Questions
Hunting Dogs
The Twilight Years
Gun Review
B. Rizzini's Round Body Game Gun
Snapshots
If you wish to win the World Side-by-Side Skeet Championship in Illinois in May (see p. 14), you likely will have to better the score of Hal M. Hare. Hare recently was named to the National Skeet Shooting Association's 2005 All-American International Skeet Team based on tournament performance and overall
The Major
The Best-Laid Plans Gang Aft Aglee
Going Places
Marco Polo Partridge
