Shooting Sportsman, September/October 2018
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Features
Sharptails of the Badlands
Hard-earned ‘chickens’ in North Dakota
By Tom Davis
Fausti Turns 70
Celebrating a gunmaking milestone
By Silvio Calabi
By-Coastal Pheasants
V1 Ranch offers upland hunting near the Pacific
By Gary Kramer
An Engraver of ‘Bests’
The mysterious Purdey engraver Aristide Barré
By Douglas Tate
Mountain Trifecta
Up-and-down hunting for the Northwest’s ‘forgotten’ grouse
By E. Donnall Thomas Jr.
Departments
From the Editor
An invitation to explore our digital efforts
Letters
More celebrations of setters and a gun-cleaning question
The Opener
A rare opportunity at a wide-open woodcock
Game & Gun Gazette
Purdey’s new Trigger Plate gun, West Nile Virus, Gordy & Sons brush pants and more
Gun Review
The Fabarm Elos D2: one beautifully balanced shooter
By Bruce Buck
Field Gear
A selection that serves in the uplands
By The Editors
Going Public
Minnesota’s Walk-In Access program
By Greg Hoch
Going Places
Something for everyone at Alabama’s Pursell Farms
Miles Demott
To the Point
The great debate: pointing dog or flusher?
By Tom Huggler
Scattershot
Great advice for the sporting life
Gear Guide
All-in-one collars for locating & training
By Greg Mcreynolds
Shooting
Remembering a “proper”-dove-shoot introduction
By Chris Batha
From the Bench
Bringing back a J.D. Dougall hammergun
By Delbert Whitman Jr.
Shot Talk
A bevy of new loads from Kent Cartridge
By Tom Roster
Hunting Dogs
The cruel realities of canine cancer
By Marty Grabijas
Conservation
Getting fired up about prescribed burning
By Miles Demott