The Tom Beckbe x DU Collection
Tom Beckbe, the hunting clothing and accessories retailer, has partnered with Ducks Unlimited to produce a collection of waterfowling gear. Celebrating the retailer’s 10th...
November/December 2025
Track2Wing Offers Access to the Field
Founded in 2020 by Terry Wilson and Nancy Anisfield, the Track2Wing Project provides Trackchair all-terrain wheelchairs to bird hunters and outdoorspeople with mobility challenges....
Modern Gun-Butt Treatments
In the November/December 2021 issue, we explored the evolution of gunstock-butt finishing—tracing the development of recoil pads, buttplates, and heel and toe plates in...
What’s New for Waterfowlers
Few wingshooters need more gear than waterfowlers. In addition to rugged guns and loads, fowlers often require special clothing for wet and gnarly conditions,...
Demystifying Chokes
Shotgun chokes have been with us for about 200 years. Before that they simply didn’t exist. Every shotgun barrel possessed a continuous smooth bore...
Auroras of Autumn
The scholar of one candle seesAn Artic effulgence flaring on the frameOf everything he is.—Wallace Stevens, “The Auroras of Autumn” The last time I...
Changes in Dog Training
Bill and I cantered through the piney woods, and when we came to the clearing, I reined my walking horse to a stop. “You...
Blind Faith
Jason Rosa and I sat gazing up at a star-freckled sky, the faint breeze on offer keeping the mosquitoes at bay. It was not...
How to Improve Your Duck Shooting
In the early days of sporting clays, some clubs set stations where you sat in a tippy boat surrounded by decoys while they threw...
Vintage Duck Guns
I was just starting to see the numbers on my wristwatch when Aidan made the call. “It’s shooting light,” he said in a steady,...