Things Trainers Hate
When you hire a professional hunting dog trainer, you’re investing trust in someone you expect to help make your dog the best it can...
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The Dedicated Sporting Gun
For new and intermediate shooters hunting for a sporting clays gun, preparing for the decisions ahead will help in making the best choice. Following...
The Rise & Fall of Gauges
Shotgunning, like rifle or pistol shooting, involves a multiplicity of ammunition sizes that in turn match a multiplicity of internal chamber and barrel diameters....
The Shooter’s Bench
One of the uniformed employees at the upscale shooting club was cleaning an over/under shotgun. I asked if it was one of the rental...
Cold Hard Facts
If you like snow, ice and extremely cold weather, go to Alaska. If you want expert Alaskan advice on cold-weather care and optimizing performance...
Modern Gun-Butt Treatments
In the November/December 2021 issue, we explored the evolution of gunstock-butt finishing—tracing the development of recoil pads, buttplates, and heel and toe plates in...
Changes in Dog Training
Bill and I cantered through the piney woods, and when we came to the clearing, I reined my walking horse to a stop. “You...
How to Improve Your Duck Shooting
In the early days of sporting clays, some clubs set stations where you sat in a tippy boat surrounded by decoys while they threw...
Fabulous Pheasants
From a distance, I saw Rick’s springer push the bird into the air. The pheasant staggered at the shot, dropped a leg and kept...
Preventing Soft-Tissue Injuries
Is that just a little limp or hitch in the gait, or is your hard-charging bird dog about to succumb to a season-ending soft-tissue...
Brains Before Brawn
Not that long ago it was customary to wait to train a gundog until it was a couple of years old. Maybe the thought...
Browning A5 Hunter 20-Gauge
John Moses Browning’s Auto-5 set the standard for semi-automatic shotguns. Introduced in 1902, the long-recoil Auto-5 enjoyed an illustrious run until it was discontinued...