Vic Venters

Vic Venters

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.

British Gunmakers of the 21st Century
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The Bookshelf

Authors Donald Dallas and David J. Baker are heavyweights in writing about the history and development of the British sporting-gun trade in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Tall Timbers’ Bobwhite Quail Management Handbook
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Bobwhites by the Book

As wild-quail populations nose-dived in the Southeast in the 1980s, relative declines on even well-managed private plantations in north Florida and south Georgia proved that they, too, were not immune.

While There Were Still Wild Birds: A Personal History of Southern Quail Hunting
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Remembering Wild Quail

It’s hard to foster a budding young Babcock or Ruark on an ersatz diet of pen-raised quail. While There Were Still Wild Birds: A Personal History of Southern Quail Hunting, by Richard E. Rankin Jr., is one modern exception.

A Novella Approach
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A Novella Approach

Guns, shooting, and characters sketched from American gun culture—propel the narratives in each of three related novellas that comprise Bang Bang Tales, by first-time author Clark Stoneridge.

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The Bookshelf

Esteemed historian Donald Dallas brings to life the leading British riflemaker of the Victorian Age; A glossy second take that reflects the rapidly evolving face of sport shooting and hunting in 21st Century America. A look at some of our favorite Wingshooting Books.