july/august 2025

July/August 2025

by Shooting Sportsman Magazine

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Features

The Year in Shotguns

New smoothbores for 2025

by Phil Bourjaily

“X” Marks the Grouse

Using modern tech to find ruffs

by Ralph P. Stuart

The Exmoor Experience

Enjoying the best of British game shooting

by Simon Reinhold

Three Days in No Man’s Land

An Oklahoma quail hunting odyssey

by Chad Love


Departments

From the Editor

A fond farewell and an enthusiastic welcome

The Opener

Tripping the shutter on unexpected sharptails

Game & Gun Gazette 

Primos’ Purdeys, the Piotti Round, remembering Geoffroy Gournet and more

Gun Review

Twice the fun with Webley & Scott’s 920BC

by Greg Carpiniello

Field Gear

New gear for getting a fresh start this fall

by The Editors

Going Places

A quest for quail at Alabama’s Dream Ranch

by Tom Huggler

To the Point

Today’s hunts as reflections on the past

by Tom Huggler


Scattershot

The Gun Rack

Admiring Fabarm’s Autumn Elite

by Joe Genzel

Shooting

Brushing up for the upland opener

by Chris Batha

Shot Talk

A rundown of notable new shotshell loads

by Tom Rooster

Hunting Dogs

How things have changed regarding puppies as pupils

by Tom Keer


ON THE COVER: 

FAIR’s new Jubilee Venice photographed by Terry Allen (see p. 52).

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