The Southern Celebrates 25 Years
This April, when the community of shotgunners gathers for its rites of spring at Deep River Sporting Clays, in Sanford, North Carolina, the Southern...
Game & Gun Gazette
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...
Beretta 486 Parallelo El Tartarugato
Is the round-bodied side-by-side the slimmest, sexiest gun ever built? First introduced by John Robertson in the 1890s and, according to author Donald Dallas,...
A Doubles Shooting System
The Robert Louis Company, an innovator of laser-practice shooting systems, exists at the intersection of technique, training and technology. Recently the Newtown, Connecticut-based company...
Mouthful of Feathers
It’s hard to put a label on the book Mouthful of Feathers: Upland in America. There’s the title, for starters. Apparently, “upland” is the...
Holland & Holland’s Clothing & Accessories Collection
Back when Chanel acquired Holland & Holland, some of the London gunmaker’s more conservative clientele viewed the company’s clothing designs as more appropriate to...
A New Work on Woodward
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...
Chapuis Produces First Scaled .410
Last summer I traveled to Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France, to visit Chapuis Armes (see “Vive le Chapuis!” Jan/Feb). Chapuis is one of the last remaining gun...
Fausti Classico WLM Hammergun
Italian hammerguns are rare, since the Val Trompia’s fine-gun trade didn’t fully evolve until after the development of the hammerless design. But one maker...
Purdey’s New Blades
Guns and knives have a long history. James Purdey and James Wilkinson were once rival gunmakers in Regency London, and both eventually earned royal...
Chêne Launches Youth Wader Exchange Program
When the duck-hunting founders of Memphis-based Chêne Gear set out to make the best waterfowling waders possible, they began with the simple belief that...
Engraver Winston Churchill Dies
On July 31 an icon of 20th Century American engraving, Winston Churchill, died after a long illness. He was 83. Churchill was from seasoned...