Features
Bog-Trotting in Ireland
In search of snipe on the Emerald Isle
Quail of the Valley
Pursuing valley quail in their Western haunts
Wings in the Prairie Sky
I'm driving a rented Toyota Corolla on a narrow, two-lane highway crowded with rush-hour traffic. Ahead of me, weaving and bobbing like a prizefighter at nearly 80 mph, is a huge, red, crew-cab Ford pickup. At the wheel of this behemoth is my photographer friend Lee Kjos. The truck is crammed full of
Africa's Flushes of Adrenaline
Hemingwayesque safari-style shooting in Tanzania
DB's Candy, Pop & Pheasant Shoppe
Pheasant advice and philosophy served with a smile
Here-Today Woodcock
First Spread: It's October. The woodcock are in. Flights fresh from up north, en route to warmer climes. Hunkered among popple and alder and spruce-on soil moist enough for probing bills. Holding ground. Second Spread: They sit tightly. Picture-perfect for pointing dogs. Confident in their camouflage
- Photography by: Clair Kofoed
The Ruger Gold Label
A time coming, but worth the wait
Holland & Holland's 1950s 'Under and Over'
The pricey predecessor to today's Royal O/U
The Browning Cynergy
Speculating on whether looks can kill
Departments
From the Editor
OK, I'll admit it: When it comes to keeping my dog in shape year-round, I'm as lax as the next guy. Not that I don't enjoy running Auger; I do. It's just that when Maine's upland season closes, in late December, I lose a lot of incentive for being out there. The regulations say we could be chasing sea
Letters
Of Ducks & Snipe Really enjoyed "The Dirty Little War," by Steve Smith, in May/June. His descriptions of both pass-shooters and decoy hunters were dead-on, and his humor had me on the floor. By the way, he never admitted which side of the fence he is on. Also, as a card-carrying snipeoholic, I was glad
2004 Vintage Cup Preview
Last year the opening ceremony of the Vintage Cup spoke volumes about the event. First thing Thursday morning, a procession of early arrivals, sponsors, exhibitors and a core of devoted members of the Order of Edwardian Gunners marched somewhat casually up the hill of the main road at Sandanona to the
Field Tests
New Gloves from Galazan
Keith Erlandson, 1931-2004
Keith Erlandson, one of Britain's greatest spaniel gundog trainers and field-trial handlers, died March 14 at Froncysyllte, northern Wales, after what a friend described as "a horrible scrap with bone cancer." I met Erlandson and his wife, Audrey, at their hilltop home in the Berwyn Mountains
Gwynne Lundgren, of Oak Knoll Ranch
There's a note next to my phone: "Call Gwynne!" That's Gwynne Lundgren, of Oak Knoll Ranch, in remote west-central Texas-profiled in Going Places in July/August and in a feature in September/October '01 titled "A One-Gun Odyssey." I hunted with Gwynne again just three weeks before
Duck Sauce with a Kick
You knew that a lot of waterfowlers have saved every duck stamp they've glued to their licenses and that there's even a collectors' trade in old duck stamps and related art and objects. But did you know that some people collect hot sauce? Well, now you can have-or give-both hot sauce and duck stamp art
Anatomy of an Unveiling
It's a problem most manufacturers wish they had. How does one introduce an ultra-quality, very-limited-production, $90,000 shotgun to potential buyers? The obvious answer is "very carefully." Since this was Purdey, the coming-out party was upscale, low-key and impeccable. Nigel Beaumont, Purdey's
GMC VIII: The Best Guns Amid a festival of 'Best' Guns
The East Coast iteration of the Gold Medal Concours d'Elegance of Fine Guns returns to the Vintage Cup for Friday and Saturday, September 17 and 18. This will be the eighth exhibition and juried competition in which some of the finest and most historically important shotguns and rifles in the country
Detailing a Double Flint
In July/August Rick Pratt's Going Places column on Oak Knoll Ranch referred to Henry Blagden's Ehinger double flintlock gun and the fact that Blagden and recently retired Holland & Holland Director Roger Mitchell had used the gun to take big Texas turkeys at the ranch. This mention, along with the accompanying
Fine Gunmaking
F.lli Rizzini, Part I
Shot Talk
A Reloading Primer: Shot Testing
Sporting Clays
Preparation & Practice
Hunting Dogs
Shape Up or Ship Out
Field Gear
Gun-Cleaning & Upland Finds
Book Review
Upland Reading
Snapshots
In July the Manhattan gunroom of Holland & Holland moved 17 blocks to reopen as a smaller but purpose-built showroom with a greater emphasis on the company's core business of guns and shooting accessories. With the short migration downtown, there was a shutdown predicted of about a month, with the new
Shooter's Cuisine
Priscilla Martel & Charles van Over
Going Places
Burnt Pine Plantation
The Major
The Future Is Before Us
Guns of the Concours
Purdey Double Rifle No. 9568
- By: Roger Sanger
- and Steve Helsley
