A New Guide to Sporting Shotguns
Among contemporaries who write professionally about wingshooting and shotgunning, there are few as widely experienced, as widely traveled and as thoroughly knowledgeable about the...
Vic Venters is the senior editor of <em>Shooting Sportsman</em> and has been a contributor since 1989. He previously served as the magazine’s Gun Review Editor and wrote the Gun Craft column. He is also the author of <em>Gun Craft: Fine Guns & Gunmakers in the 21st Century</em> and is co-author of <em>The Best of British</em>. His views on fine guns as collectibles have been quoted in <em>Worth </em>Magazine and <em>London’s Financial Times</em>. Vic graduated from the University of North Carolina with a B.A. in history, and he completed two years of graduate studies at Louisiana State University in journalism and the history of the American South. He lives near Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife and son.
Among contemporaries who write professionally about wingshooting and shotgunning, there are few as widely experienced, as widely traveled and as thoroughly knowledgeable about the...
If you’re looking to learn specialized techniques for competitive clay shooting, Wingshooting: The Art & Science is not the shotgunning guide for you. Nor...
James Woodward & Sons is the last of London’s great sporting gunmakers to receive book-length historical treatment—and heretofore for sound reason. Although reverentially regarded...
Some pointers for Guns bound for Britain Meanbh-chuileag is the Gaelic name for a flying insect that has the fastest wingbeats of any in...
An interview with Purdey Gunroom Manager Dr. Nicholas Harlow.
Photographs by Simon Buck It was July in Norfolk, and Mark Fitzer stood in a sun-bleached field of wheat and pointed to a clump...
The end of an era and the beginning of another
A.A. Brown & Sons builds its first over/unders
W.W. Greener, one of the most famous and influential English gunmaking firms of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, is for sale.
Shooting Sportsman asked several of his longtime friends to comment on the qualities that defined his character.
The Westley Richards ‘droplock’:
a stroke of gunmaking genius.
Britain’s most successful independent gunmaker eyes retirement