Features
Fowl Foolers
Fresh faces in fakes for this season
The Big 10
The pros and cons of the 10-gauge
A Little London Big-Bore
Watson Bros. has perfected a 12 that handles like a 20
Fresh Fowlers
Scouting out the latest waterfowling guns
Load Your Lanyard
What's new in waterfowl calls for '05
Pearls on a String
Reveries of birds, dogs & the uplands
Fowling Boats
Craft for big water, small and in between
Out in Rain, Back in Rain
Wet & wild quail hunting on Georgia's SouthWind Plantation
Sniping!
(Pictorial) It's triggered by fall's first frosts: the early migration of snipe from up north. Sprightly birds sifting down into marshes and wetlands and flooded pastures. Here today, gone tomorrow-providing fleeting gunning for the passionate few who pursue them. It's work, really, this sniping. A bog-trotting,
- Photography by: Clair Kofoed
Partridge of the Pacific Northwest
Chukar & Huns in the open ups & downs
Gunning with Los Gauchos
Mixed-bag hunting in Argentina with Los Gauchos Outfitters
Departments
From The Editor
Waterfowling is a sport of extremes. Take, for example, an opening day almost 20 years ago on a small creek outside Vergennes, Vermont. A friend had gotten word that wood ducks were working a stretch of oak-lined water, and he'd invited a group of us to join him for the season's first effort. It was
Letters
The Crucial Quail I enjoyed Vic Venters' articles on modern quail management in the South ("Quail Hunting's New Good Old Days," May/June & July/August) very much. As a point of interest, shortly after the first article came out I had occasion to attend a conference in Washington, DC, on "Markets and
Gunspeak
The Irresistible Round-Body Zeus
Wingshooting News
A New Parker Bros. Unveiled
Quail Forever Forms
New Quail Conservation Group Launched
Guest Gun
A Letter to a Friend
B. Rizzini Announces New Side-by-Side
There soon will be a major new player in the ever-changing side-by-side shotgun market. B. Rizzini has announced that the BR 550 model will be available in 2006 as a complement to the company's successful over/under line. The new gun will be officially released in early February at the SHOT Show in Las
Remembering Bob Brister
Bob Brister's Long Shadow
American Engraving Gets a Boost
It's a simple fact: Very few of the finest shotguns made in the world today feature the work of American engravers. Currently, the market seems to emphasize the talents of artists from England and Europe, where shop-apprentice training traditions and the proximity of engravers to gunmakers have built
Fine Gunmaking
Evolution of the Sidelock, Part V
Hunting Dogs
Avoidance Training
Field Gear
What's New for Waterfowlers
Book Review
Four for the Fall
Snapshots
With 2006 being the 100th anniversary of the all-American .30-06 and the 70th anniversary of the Winchester Model 70, the craftsmen at the American Custom Gunmakers Guild have pooled their resources to build a stunningly beautiful rifle for the group's annual custom gun raffle. This is the 21st collaboration
Shooter's Cuisine
Michael Gray
Going Places
Deer Creek Lodge
Guns of the Concours
A Turnbull Parker
- By: Roger Sanger
- and Steve Helsley
