Features
Show Guns ’11
New and notable smoothbores for 2011
By: Bruce Buck
A Sporting Trifecta
Addieville East Farm, Chokebore Kennels & Robin Hollow Outfitters
Dakota Wild at Torilil Farm
Hunting South Dakota’s ultimate honey hole
By: Tred Slough
Fieldsport, Ltd.
A full-service gunshop in northern Michigan
By: Terry Allen
Huns & Hi Times
Revisiting the good old days along Montana’s Hi-Line
By: E. Donnall Thomas Jr.
Greater Gifts
Humbled by an embarrassment of riches
By: Tom Davis
Departments
From the Editor
A fond farewell to The Major’s creator: Galen Winter
By: Ralph P. Stuart
Letters
Winston Churchill, Daisy, sporting clays, grouse hunting and more
Game & Gun Gazette
EPIC Outdoor Game Fair, McIntosh guns, American Engravers, etc.
Shooting
Preventive maintenance to keep your game guns going
By: Chris Batha
Fine Gunmaking
Comparing and contrasting a Francotte rifle and shotgun
By: Steven Dodd Hughes
Shot Talk
The new crop of sub-gauge nontoxics
By: Tom Roster
Hunting Dogs
Picking up on the idea of the conditioned retrieve
By: George Hickox
Field Gear
Highlighting the year’s new gear for the wingshooter
By: Tom Huggler
Going Places
Farming for pheasants at Kansas’ Beaver Creek Ranch
By: Scott Winston
The Major
Ashes to ashes, grouse to grouse
By: Galen Winter