July/August 2006

Features

The Cadence of Prairies

Huns & sharptails in the Western 'out there'

By: Dave Carty

Chukar Battle in the Sheepeaters' Canyon

Casting & blasting on the Middle Fork of the Salmon

By: Ed Carroll

Benelli's Finest

World class autoloaders for the field or collection

By: S.P. Fjestad

Guns from the Big Show

Running down what was rolled out at SHOT

By: Bruce Buck

Ivory Beads
[Photoshoot] It's what you'd expect in LA: glitz, glitter, glam... fine guns. Just cross-town from Beverly Hills, Jim Thynne (above left) and Jerry Kitto set up shop five years ago in the suburb of Covina. Since then they've risen like stars in the fine-gun firmament. A-listers with fine performances

Photography by: Clair Kofoed

Vistas of Whitewings

A plague of doves at Rancho Caracol

By: Thomas McIntyre

A Georgia Eye-Opener

Discovering quail hunting at Burnt Pine Plantation

By: Tred Slough

Laying it on the Line

Diver hunting with the Mighty Layout Boys

By: Tom Davis

Departments

From the Editor

Hard to believe, but in July it will be three years since we lost Contributing Editor Tim Leary in that tragic fall. (If you're too new to the magazine to remember Tim, he was our Field Gear Editor and the coordinator of our Readers & Writers Wingshoots.) Still, after all this time, hardly a day goes

By: Ralph P. Stuart

Letters

Shedding Light on a Shooter The letter by Robert Cox (Letters, May/June) concerning his grandfather, Wilbur Cox, of Remington's Shooting Team was most interesting. Two years ago at the Remington Society of America's Annual Meeting and Seminar, Gordon Fosburg, an expert on Remington advertising, promotional

Time Travel with Philipp Ollendorff

This past January at the Safari Club International Convention, in Reno, I heard a comment that got me thinking. I was sitting in the Shooting Sportsman booth and overheard the following snippet of conversation: "Have you noticed that the best classic British guns at the show are made by Germans?"

By: Douglas Tate

Help a Grouse, Win a Parker

The Ruffed Grouse Society has organized a yearlong fundraising raffle to appeal to enthusiasts passionate about upland gamebirds and fine double guns: The chance to win one of the new $49,000 (Remington) Parker Guns for a $100 ticket. The limited number of 1,000 tickets doesn't offer the best odds, perhaps,

By: Ed Carroll

Engraving Confab Reaches New Heights

As mentioned last year (see "American Engraving Gets a Boost," Game & Gun Gazette, Nov/Dec '05), Glendo Corp., a manufacturer of the GRS line of engraving tools in Emporia, Kansas, is leading the way in promoting fine engraving in the US. The company has partnered with Emporia State University

By: Clair Kofoed

GaugeMates Tested: The Numbers

Tom Roster's March/April Shot Talk column ("Inside Sub-Gauge Inserts") gave us a good feel for the capabilities of each type of insert and its price/benefit tradeoff. However, the GaugeMate people, in California, were in the midst of their own independent testing when Tom's article was written,

By: Silvio Calabi

Bird Dogs Forever on DVD and on the Web

At a time when even wingshooting television shows tend to favor speed-metal soundtracks, the fast-cut editing style of rock music videos, and a "greatest hits" onslaught that packs a hundred tumbling birds or more into each half-hour, it's no surprise that Dr. Christian Hageseth's Bird Dogs

By: Ed Carroll

How Efficient Is Your Shotgun?

Many Shooting Sportsman readers are familiar with Don Amos's and Tom Hamernik's work on Moment of Inertia (MOI) and shotgun handling (see "Measuring MOI," Sept/Oct '01). In the great American tradition of endless tinkering, their concept recently was subjected to a sophisticated statistical

By: Randy Beard

Shooting

Why a Parker?

By: Michael McIntosh

Fine Gunmaking

Metal Finishes for Fine Guns, Part II

By: Steven Dodd Hughes

Sporting Clays

'Squaring Off' Targets

By: Barry G. Davis

Shot Talk

Controlling Power-Charge Variations

By: Tom Roster

Hunting Dogs

Beyond 20 Weeks

By: George Hickox

Field Gear

Vegas Jackpot: New Products

By: Tom Huggler

Book Review

From Locks to Laughter

By: Charles Fergus

Snapshots

The famous Ithaca Model 37 bottom-ejecting pump shotgun was reborn with the December purchase of the remains of the bankrupt Ithaca Gun Co. by an Ohio-based manufacturer. What's more, the new owners say they want to bring back the New Ithaca Double. Craig Marshall has converted his family-owned business

By: Ed Carroll

The Major

Another Bear Story

By: Galen Winter

Going Places

Little Moran Hunt Club

By: Gary Kramer

Guns of the Concours

An Olin Elsie

By: Roger Sanger

and Steve Helsley

 


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