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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.
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