November/December 2024
Buy the issue! Features Getting the Jump on Ducks Late-season jump-shooting on moving water by Noah Davis Classic Pheasant Guns A full field of...
September/October 2024
Benelli Montefeltro Ultra Light
The Montefeltro has long been Benelli’s entry-level shotgun, though some clay shooters will tell you it’s the best inertia-driven autoloader the Italians have ever...
Celebrating Sharptails
Observations on habits & habitat Lewis and Clark were barely underway when they camped along the Missouri River in what is now South Dakota...
The Eurasian Invasion
Drawing down on the new dove in town There’s nothing else really like it. Teal can zoom into the decoys, zigging and zagging all...
Game On! Gear
For upland hunters across the country, the arrival of September means game on! From gunning for doves to walking the prairies for grouse, wingshooters...
To the Point: Chicken Delight
If you had told me I would go to Kansas—that fabulous bird hunting state—for three days and not kill a pheasant or quail, I...
Right as Rain
Not-so-fair-weather grouse hunting We’ve hunted together before and we’ve hunted together since, but the talk always takes on a softer, special tone whenever one...
Dangerous Loading Practices
Both of the topics I’m covering here were prompted by an ever-building series of reader emails and phone calls concerning these subjects. Since both...
A Tale of Two Woodcock
Many sportsmen are familiar with American woodcock from hunting the birds and/or witnessing their courtship skydance at dawn and dusk each spring. What they...
Paul Nelson Farm
How much would you pay to turn back the clock to those Soil Bank days of post-WWII when pheasants were as thick as blackbirds?...
Federal Duck Stamps Go Digital
The Federal Government has just given us one more reason to take our smartphones afield. Starting with the 2024–’25 hunting season, Federal Duck Stamps...
A New Collection of Wingshooting Essays
In his Introduction to An Outside Chance, Thomas McGuane’s classic collection of sporting essays, Geoffrey Wolf grumbles, “Sometimes it pisses me off what he...