Features
Bespoke from Beretta
'Best' guns from the world's oldest maker
By: Douglas Tate
Eastern Oregon Odyssey
Four species in an oft-overlooked landscape
By: Steve Helsley
and Roger Sanger
Banzai, Browning!
An inside look at the Miroku facilities in Japan
By: John M. Taylor
Woodcock in Paradise
Following the flight to phenomenal hunting
By: Ed Carroll
Shooting in Shelikof
Duck hunting in the Shelikof Strait of Alaska
By: Lee Thomas Kjos
Swinton '98
A tale of driven grouse shooting at Swinton and certain irregularities
By: Bob McDill
Getting Into Geese
Recommendations for decoys, calls, and layout blinds and their appropriate use for hunting Canada geese
By: Bill Buckley
The No-Longer-Neglected Duck Call
A history of duck calls, their construction and use
By: John M. Taylor
Departments
From the Editor
A first-ever duck hunt and this year's waterfowl issue.
By: Ralph P. Stuart
Letters
Kudos for Batha; confidence & conclusions with McIntosh
Game & Gun Gazette
Woodcock & Whisky, The Bird Hunter's Friend to the End, "Making Damascus Barrels," "Dressed to Kill: Women Who Hunt," A Double-Gun Speed Loader, The Dewing Reale Custom Side-by-Side
Shooting
Passing on the joys of shooting
By: Michael McIntosh
Fine Gunmaking
Answering questions on sideplated Guyots, trigger conversions and more
By: Steven Dodd Hughes
Shot Talk
A discussion of several inexpensive tools that offer a wealth of information to the serious shotgunner
By: Tom Roster
Hunting Dogs
"Bonking" your way to better behavior
By: George Hickox
Sporting Clays
Proper posture: A calm head prevails
By: Chris Batha
Gun Review
Beretta's SV10 Perennia: new shape, new features, proven performance
Guncraft
How Gianfranco Pedersoli reinvented gun engraving
By: Vic Venters
FIeld Gear
Dekes, a boot bag, gun oil, gloves and more for the cold & wet
By: Tom Huggler
Book Review
Johnson, Kerasote, Lepage & Fersen, and Budworth
By: Charles Fergus
The Major
Allergies: our most terrible season
By: Galen Winter