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Overcoming In-Season Obstacles with Your Duck Dog
SPONSORED CONTENT: EUKANUBA You’ve waited to hit your honey-hole spot for the perfect day. You know that you’re hitting the migration just right, and...
Holiday Gift Guide
SPONSORED CONTENT: SHOOTING SPORTSMAN PARTNERS Need holiday gift ideas for wingshooters? Shooting Sportsman has you covered with our annual Holiday Gift Guide. Our staff...
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Grouse Guns of the Old Guard
Lessons from wingshooting’s legendary scribes Bird hunters can be a finicky bunch, but grouse hunters are idiosyncratic on another level. Take, for example, the...
Landing Gear
There’s a moment in waterfowling when everything changes. It’s when the birds commit and lower their “landing gear” to set in. It’s also when...
To the Point: Cans Are Back!
Last December I blew my chance to kill a canvasback by not swinging through on the single volunteer that flashed past our decoy spread...
Wingshooting
Holiday Gift Guide
SPONSORED CONTENT: SHOOTING SPORTSMAN PARTNERS Need holiday gift ideas for wingshooters? Shooting Sportsman has you covered with our annual Holiday Gift Guide. Our staff...
The Best Ammo for the Best Hunt
There’s a long list of non-toxic shotshell options for the duck and goose hunter, and picking the right loads can be the difference between success and disappointment.
Five Must-Haves for Every Waterfowler
Having spent much of his life chasing waterfowl, Travis knows how important having the right gear is to being successful. Here are Travis’s Top 5 Must-Have Items that he takes with him on every hunt.
‘Up’ for the Uplands
Just as athletes get “up” for a game, wingshooters must properly prepare for hunting season. This involves not only getting ready mentally and physically...
Fine Guns
Fabarm Elos N2 RS Sporting
I own three Fabarm shotguns, and I’d like to own the one reviewed here: the Elos N2 RS Sporting in 12 gauge with 32"...
Arrizabalaga SLE Pigeon Gun
Arrizabalaga SLE Pigeon Gun is a testament to a modern incarnation of Old World craftsmanship that bodes well for the revival of the Spanish trade.
Weatherby Orion Sporting
How does a 57-year-old former boarding-school teacher end up taking over for the august Bruce Buck in the pages of Shooting Sportsman? I have...
Kevin’s Poli Plantation Over/Under
Kevin’s Poli Plantation shotgun is made by Poli, in Italy, to the specifications requested by Kevin Kelly to sell in his gunshops in Thomasville,...
Dogs
Overcoming In-Season Obstacles with Your Bird Dog
SPONSORED CONTENT: EUKANUBA Between dangers in the field and training-related issues while hunting, how do you handle and prepare for obstacles that may arise...
The Role of Antioxidants in a Dog’s Post-Hunt Recovery
SPONSORED CONTENT: EUKANUBA Even the most conditioned dogs get tired, but what you choose to feed your dog can have a positive impact on...
Progressive Conditioning for Sporting Dogs
SPONSORED CONTENT: EUKANUBA There’s only one way to get your gundog ready for hunting season, and that’s to condition when it’s hot. Conditioning is...
Breaking, Bad
Breaking is the opposite of steadiness, and one of the most irritating behaviors retriever owners typically deal with.