Shooting Sportsman magazine, May/June 2026 cover

May/June 2026

by Shooting Sportsman

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Features

Wired for Birds

The purpose-built German wirehaired pointer

by Phil Craig Koshyk

The Magical, Mystical 28-Gauge

What makes these guns so beguiling?

by Ron Spomer

Wild-Quail Country

Bobs & blues at Guitar Ranches

by Tom Sternal

Lost and Found

Finding true value in a duck hunt

by Jon Osborn


Departments

From the Editor

Celebrating the wirehaired “multi-tools” of the gundog world

The Opener

Into the Alaskan wild in search of ptarmigan

Game & Gun Gazette 

Purdey at the Royal Berkshire, Northern Wings & Clays, McCall Guns & Archery, the Galazan Automatic Generation 3, and more.

Gun Review

Rizzini’s Aurum Evo Classic over/under

by Greg Carpiniello

Field Gear

Gear to keep dogs safe, comfy and healthy

by The Editors

To the Point

To control a dog’s range or give it free rein

by Tom Huggler


Scattershot

The Gun Rack

The Mossberg Maverick SA All-Purpose autoloader

by Joe Genzel

Shooting

An intuitive approach to instinctive shooting

by Lars Jacob

Shot Talk

Copper shot: what it is and isn’t

by Tom Roster

Hunting Dogs

The worst-case scenario: when a dog gets shot

by Keith Schopp


ON THE COVER: Drahthaar Ines II vom Orion VGP “Nez” on point (see p. 56). Photograph by John Stewart Wright/@theartofbirddogs.

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