Features
Prairie Double
Finding a gun for hunting the wide open
By: Richard Grozik
In This Season of Snakes
Quail hunting at Georgia’s Red Pebble Plantation
By: Roger Pinckney
Another Perfect Day
In pursuit of sharptails & ruffed grouse in Alaska
The Prodigal Defourny
Reuniting a pair of Belgian boxlocks
By: Robert M. Poole
Best of the Vests
Evaluating over-the-shoulder birdholders
By: David Draper
The Marsh Hens of Chincoteague
Turning the tides on clapper rails
Going Gray
Chasing Huns across the Western prairie
By: Dale Spartas
Turkeys on the Wing
Hunting birds that go down with a THUD!
By: Michael Pearce
Beaver Tale
An explosive battle with a beaver
By: Bob McDill
Departments
From the Editor
A pair of books that could change the face of shooting
By: Ralph P. Stuart
Letters
Vintage guns, pointer performance and words of praise
Game & Gun Gazette
Beretta’a DT-11, the Monkey Loader, book reviews and more
Fine Gunmaking
Part 3 on triggerplate guns: the MacNaughton round-action
By: Steven Dodd Hughes
Shooting
Straight ways of dealing with cross-dominance
By: Chris Batha
Shot Talk
The proper way to report ammo problems
By: Tom Roster
Hunting Dogs
Chatting with Chad Hines of Willow Creek Kennels
By: George Hickox
Gun Craft
The intercepting safety sear as it relates to sidelocks
By: Vic Venters
Gun Review
The Franchi Instinct L & SL: value-priced performers
By: Bruce Buck
Readers’ Guns
The Dragon Gun as a tribute to Chinese culture
By: Douglas Tate
To the Point
In celebration of sharptails
By: Tom Huggler
