march/april 2026

March/April 2026

by Shooting Sportsman Magazine

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Features

A Sporting Selection

The latest, greatest sporting clays guns

by Phil Bourjaily

Ghosts of the Great Plains

Chasing praire chickens with Gobble-n-Grunt Outfitters

by Tom Sternal

Chukar Early On

The call of early-season chukar hunting

by Garhart Stephenson

Pheasants & Family

Chasing roosters and reminiscing

by Douglas E. Spale


Departments

From the Editor

The importance of having the right gun for wingshooting

The Opener

A mallard courtship flight for the records

Game & Gun Gazette 

Readers & Writers Adventures, The World Gunmakers’ Evening, the Federal Duck Stamp contest winner, etc.

Gun Review

The Browning Citori 825 Sporting: a contemporary clays crusher

by Greg Carpiniello

Field Gear

A collection of dedicated clay shooting vests

by The Editors

To the Point

Trying to go back again to a place made special

by Tom Huggler


Scattershot

The Gun Rack

The Syren Elos D2: a ladies’ gun for the field

by Joe Genzel

Shooting

A practical guide to picking a sporting clays gun

by Don Currie

From the Bench

Raising the possibility of repairing barrel dents

by Delbert Whitman Jr. & Reid Bryant

Shot Talk

The rise & fall of various shotgun gauges

by Tom Rooster

Hunting Dogs

How to avoid things that pro trainers hate

by Jessie Richards


ON THE COVER: 

It pays to be properly “in-vested” for clay shooting (see p. 95). Photo courtesy of Castellani USA.

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