Features
Going Once, Going Twice
Sitting in on James D. Julia's fall firearms auction
By: Charles Fergus
Griffin & Howe
Looking back--and ahead--at a legendary sporting retailer
By: Clair Kofoed
Frederick Beesley: A Patent Success
The man responsible for the best "best' design ever
By: Douglas Tate
Make Mine Mearns
Blue skies and beautiful birds in Arizona
By: Clair Kofoed
The Captains' Geese
Waterfowling in the path of Lewis & Clark
By: E. Donnall Thomas Jr.
Taking Her Along
Proper introductions to the upland life
By: Ted Nelson Lundrigan
Departments
From the Editor
Looking back, and then ahead into the new year
By: Ralph P. Stuart
Letters
Welcoming women, the importance of shotstrings and more
Clapton Guns Auctioned
If you were wondering how many people donned winter-weight tweeds and jetted off to London for Nick Holt’s December 11 fine-gun auction despite the economic freeze, I can assure you it was enough. A standing-room-only crowd was outnumbered by commission and telephone clients whose collective zeal heated bidding, with numerous lots exceeding their estimates.
By: Douglas Tate
Blixt & Co.
Lars Magnusson was in his element when I visited him at Lazy Triple Creek Ranch, in Idaho, in late 2007. A talented and energetic young man, Magnusson was fully engaged in the job for which he had trained.
By: Ed Carroll
Seeking the Damascus Rosetta Stone
After being consigned to the proverbial scrap heap of history for the better part of the 20th Century, Damascus is back in a big way. In England W.W. Greener is again making new “best” guns using vintage Damascus tubes to great acclaim.
By: Vic Venters
'Gunsmithing British Side by Side Shotguns'
Someone ought to make a detailed video showing double-gun disassembly and repair.” I’ve heard it said many times, and I’ve heard a few people say that it’s such a good idea that they were going to do it. Finally, someone actually has.
By: Steven Dodd Hughes
Guest Gun: A Bespoke Experience
I was nearing retirement, the major expenses in my life were taken care of, and my children were grown and gone. I started thinking about rewarding myself with a retirement gift. I’d watched my pennies and kept life simple, and that was worth a reward. No Corvette or cruise, nor even a safari to Africa; no big RV, no camp in the woods.
By: Lee A. Leone
Shooting
Practice now or pay later
By: Michael McIntosh
Fine Gunmaking
Jim Greenwood, double-gun stocker.
By: Steven Dodd Hughes
Shot Talk
Performance-testing RST's specialty shotshells.
By: Tom Roster
Hunting Dogs
Expanding your training toolbox with Gary Wilkes.
By: George Hickox
Sporting Clays
Measuring for the gun that fits & hits.
By: Chris Batha
Gun Review
Fausti's Dea Round Body: a well-designed performer
By: Bruce Buck
Guncraft
The traditional artisinal gunmakers of Spain.
By: Vic Venters
Field Gear
Seeing, looking and shooting well on the range.
By: Tom Huggler
Book Review
Muderlak, Wieland, Reuter and Winter
By: Charles Fergus
The Major
Scotch & stream water as the elixir of life.
By: Galen Winter
