2025–’26 Readers & Writers Adventures
With our hunting stories, we try to create visceral experiences. You can see the blur of flushing birds. You can hear the beating of...
Sporting Clay Gear for ‘Crushing It’
For clay shooters, there’s nothing better than “crushing it”—to be on a roll, figuring out target after target and watching them turn to dust....
Next-Adventure Gear
By their nature, hunters are a traveling lot—always in search of great sport and different experiences. As the new year begins, thoughts turn to...
Grounding Gear
Waterfowlers wait for it year-round: the fall flight, when ducks and geese filter south from northern breeding grounds. Typically in flocks and skeins, the...
Game On! Gear
For upland hunters across the country, the arrival of September means game on! From gunning for doves to walking the prairies for grouse, wingshooters...
Premiere Gear
With the opening of bird season right around the corner, summer is the time when wingshooters begin getting antsy. Many are anticipating not only...
Top-Dog Gear
What hunter doesn’t think that his or her gundog is the best? Such assessments are based on performance, of course, but they also factor...
Smashing-Good Gear
For the shotgunner, there are few things as satisfying as smashing a clay target. Figuring out the lead, speed and perfect break point, and...
Announcing the 2024–’25 Readers & Writers Adventures
We’re at it again. Never content to just publish articles about great wingshooting trips, we actually plan them and invite any and all to...
Tricked Out for Travel
"Travel” means different things to different people. For some it involves trekking around the globe via planes, trains and automobiles. For others it’s simply...
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...
‘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...