The March/April 2016 issue of Shooting Sportsman is now available online and on newsstands. Our "Sporting Clays issue" gets you ready for warmer weather and a return to the shooting season, with what to look for in a clays gun, a review of the clays-worthy Perazzi DSC 20 side-by-side and Field Gear for the clays shooter. Photograph of Kevin’s Plantation Collection Sporter by Terry Allen.
FEATURES
DEDICATED TO CLAYS
Moving from a field to a clays gun
Bruce Buck
PARTRIDGE IN PORTUGAL
A day of redlegs at Vale Feitoso
Vic Venters
A QUAIL HUNTING ETHOS
Benellis & bobwhites at SouthWind Plantation
Wayne Van Zwoll
PATOS APLENTY
Sky-filling ducks in Argentina
Brian Grossenbacher, with Reid Bryant
MY DEFENSE OF HUNTING
The point is going through the process
Richard Yatzeck
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
On target with spring clay shooting
Ralph P. Stuart
Letters
Contributor kudos, an omission, field tips, etc.
Game & Gun Gazette
Reader & Writer Adventures, the new Merkel 40E & Purdey’s renovated factory.
Shooting
The right way to start off new shooters
Chris Batha
Fine Gunmaking
An L.C. Smith 20-gauge Trap Grade
Steven Dodd Hughes
Shot Talk
The second of three on reloading shotshells
Tom Roster
Hunting Dogs
The proper place for obedience in training
Dan Ihrke
Gun Review
Perazzi’s DC20: a side-by-side for game & clays
Bruce Buck
Field Gear
A full range of wares for the target shooter
David Draper
To the Point
Bird Camp as the glue that binds friendships
Tom Huggler
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