Features

The Golden Ticket

Golden retrievers: These dogs can hunt

by Tom Davis

Finding Rizzini

Journeying to Italy for an affirming factory visit

by Tom Sternal

Wings Over Uruguay

Mixed-bag shooting at Estancia Santa Clara

by Gary Kramer

Smitten by Snipe

The trickiest—and tastiest—thing in feathers

by Douglas Tate

Departments

From the Editor

When in need of dog-training help

The Opener

A ruddy duck’s bubbly display

Game & Gun Gazette 

The Sporting Shoppe expands; Pheasants Forever grants; new guns from Beretta, Westley Richards and H.J. Hussey; etc.

Gun Review

Fabarm’s Elos 2 Elite: the best-kept secret in shotguns?

by Greg Carpiniello

Field Gear

Tools for making dog training easier & safer

by The Editors

Going Places

Georgia’s Broomsedge Rod & Gun

by Scott Cummings

To the Point

The gundog as bird hunting’s “third rail”

by Tom Huggler

Scattershot

The Gun Rack

Browning’s A5 Hunter in 20 gauge 

by Joe Genzel

Shooting

How shotguns are made today

by Chris Batha

From the Bench

Properly prepping guns for storage 

by Delbert Whitman Jr. & Reid Bryant

Shot Talk

Bracing for ammo-price increases

by Tom Roster

Hunting Dogs

Training the double-duty retriever

by Jessie Richards

Conservation

Reviewing what’s new in avian flu 

by E. Donnall Thomas Jr.

ON THE COVER: 

Golden retriever Falco catching air with a pheasant. Photograph by Mark Atwater/upclosephoto.com.