Features
Perfection by Hand
Cogswell & Harrison: handcrafting guns by slow degrees
By: Douglas Tate
Trudging Across the Tundra
North to Alaska, in pursuit of the noble ptarmigan
By: Ed Carroll
Flights of Fancy
Rethinking reality-based "hunters' clays"
By: Tred Slough
A Scottish Seaside Shoot
This is a photoessay. Portpatrick, on the Irish Sea in far-southwest Scotland- driven game at the Corsewall Estate with Atkin Grant & Lang. "A good little shoot," the locals admit. Even in November it's a green and gentle landscape, with views stretching across the lochs and bays. But once the shooting
Photography by: Terry Allen
A Hunger for Huns
A flat-out search for Canada's prairie partridge
By: Ralph P. Stuart
Quail Hunting's New Good Old Days, Part II
Can Bob come back in the Southeast?
By: Vic Venters
The Year in Guns
The new-shotgun report from SHOT
By: Bruce Buck
A Stunning Piece of Work
English gunmaker Tony White, renowned for his modern take on the Anson & Deeley boxlock, recently unveiled a stunning pair of lightweight sidelock game guns-the first he has built under his own name. Other sidelocks he has built wear the names of other prestigious makers. The entirely English-made guns
By: John Ian Gregson
Departments
From The Editor
If you live in the Southeast and hunt quail, odds are you've noticed a precipitous decline in bird numbers during the past several decades. Stats show that since 1966, bobwhite populations have dropped an average of 2.8 percent per year nationwide, with some areas of the Southeast having seen a loss
By: Ralph P. Stuart
Letters
New Hope for Quail Hunters After reading Vic Venters' article "Quail Hunting's New Good Old Days, Part I" in May/June, I feel like we have been reborn! Thank you, thank you, for such a concise and informative article on Gentleman Bob. You do justice to all those who have hunted the Millpond and Elsoma
Sauer Knives, Fit for Presentation
Last year knifemaker Charles Sauer asked me to share a booth with him at The Vintage Cup in New York. When I agreed, he suggested that we do something special by creating an engraved presentation knife for the event. I thought this was an excellent idea, but as we discussed it, we realized that several
By: Barry Lee Hands
Field Test
Briley Bling-Bling
By: Bruce Buck
Pheasant Fest 2005
Pheasants Forever's (PF's) ringneck exposition-Pheasant Fest -attracted more than 24,000 members, hunters and devotees to the Qwest Center in Omaha, Nebraska, for three days in mid-January. This outdoor-sports show was the second such gathering for PF and saw twice as many vendors and exhibitors as the
By: Larry Brown
British Makers Form Trust to Support the Trade
A charity dedicated to raising funds to ensure the continuance of the British gun trade has been launched in London by the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers. The charitable trust will help those engaged in the craft of gunmaking combine traditional skills with new technologies and encourage new recruits
By: John Ian Gregson
Fine Gunmaking
Evolution of the Sidelock, Part II
By: Steven Dodd Hughes
Shooting
Panic
By: Michael McIntosh
Sporting Clays
Devil's Advocate
By: Barry G. Davis
Shot Talk
Patterning Your Shotgun
By: Tom Roster
Hunting Dogs
Dog Dentistry
By: George Hickox
Field Gear
What Was New at SHOT
By: Tom Huggler
Book Review
Dog-Eared Reading
By: Charles Fergus
Snapshots
There may be 12 million mourning doves in Minnesota, but hunting opponents are organizing an effort in the Legislature to make sure that all of the birds are protected from sportsmen. At press time bills had been introduced in the House and Senate that would repeal the hunting season, which in 2004 occurred
By: Ed Carroll
The Major
Ground-Swatting
By: Galen Winter
Guns of the Concours
A Modern Hammergun
By: Roger Sanger
and Steve Helsley
