Custom Stocks Made Easy
Stock Fit is Paramount If one surveyed the world’s best clays shooters and game shots, it's likely that almost all of them would agree...
Featured
The Reinvention of Heartland Lodge
In 2024 one of the Midwest’s most popular upscale wingshooting lodges, Harpole’s Heartland Lodge, changed hands when Gary Harpole sold the Nebo, Illinois, business...
The Latest
In Sheep's Clothing
In a world of high-tech hunting fabrics that can breathe, wick and shed water, sometimes tradition succeeds. Humans transitioned to woven wool as far...
Worst Case Scenario
One low bird. One poor decision by a hunter. One bird dog about to be shot. Cody Alford watched it all happen in slow...
Wild-Quail Country
It's amazing how quickly you can adjust to new patterns. What is suddenly new and almost foreign can reboot your brain and retrain how...
Wingshooting
Sporting Clays Gear Guide
Looking for gear to help elevate your sporting clays experience? Following is a guide to high-quality gear that will take your clay shooting to...
Things Trainers Hate
When you hire a professional hunting dog trainer, you’re investing trust in someone you expect to help make your dog the best it can...
Get-Away Gear
Sometimes wingshooters just need to get away. Whether it’s to a remote camp or to a lodge halfway around the world, the urge to...
Cold Hard Facts
If you like snow, ice and extremely cold weather, go to Alaska. If you want expert Alaskan advice on cold-weather care and optimizing performance...
Fine Guns
Fabarm Infinite RS
Fabarm’s Infinite RS 12-gauge side-by-side reminds me of an impassive utterance by John Cleese on the Monty Python television series: “And now for something...
Nothing but Bests
There has always been an inherent self-confidence in Scottish gunmaking. It comes from the quiet knowledge of a higher standard. Under the stewardship of...
The Cole Tariff Busters
First COVID causes supply-chain issues, then inflation decides to take a whopping leap and the cost of metals vaults skyward. The list of factors...
Grulla 216RB
When I began working at Orvis a decade ago, Gunsmith John Skinner schooled me on the history of Orvis’s proprietary shotguns. Grulla figured prominently....
Dogs
Wired for Birds
A good friend of mine born and raised in New Zealand. He moved to Canada more than two decades ago to pursue his life’s passion:...
Cold Hard Facts
If you like snow, ice and extremely cold weather, go to Alaska. If you want expert Alaskan advice on cold-weather care and optimizing performance...
Brains Before Brawn
Not that long ago it was customary to wait to train a gundog until it was a couple of years old. Maybe the thought...
How to Replenish Your Dog’s Energy
When it comes to feeding your dog, you won’t find one option that holds for all dogs across the board. Active dogs burn high...