november/december 2025

November/December 2025

by Shooting Sportsman Magazine

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Features

Vintage Duck Guns

Waterfowling with classic smoothbores

by Matthew Every

Auroas of Autumn

Notes from an Alberta duck blind

by Robert Parvin Williams

Chasing Shadows

Climbing for duskie grouse in New Mexico

by Chad Love

Blind Faith

Veterans find meaning in waterfowling

by Russell Worth Parker


Departments

From the Editor

Witnessing the making of a duck dog

The Opener

Bobbing on the bay for big-water divers

Game & Gun Gazette 

A new Readers & Writers Adventure. Hound & Hare’s next chapter, Rigby’s resurrection, Hunt.Vet and more

Gun Review

The Grulla 216RB: a carved beauty for the field

by Greg Carpiniello

Field Gear

What's new for waterfowlers

by The Editors

To the Point

Lessons learned from a slow day in the blind

by Tom Huggler


Scattershot

The Gun Rack

The Browning Citori825

by Joe Genzel

Shooting

Tips & tricks for dropping more ducks

by Phil Bourjaily

Shot Talk

Demystifying chokes and making recommendations

by Tom Rooster

Hunting Dogs

The ways in which dog training has changed

by Tom Keer


ON THE COVER: 

A black lab with a green-winged teal photographed by Tom Martineau/wildfrontimages.com (see p. 86).

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