September/October 2025
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September/October 2025
The Female Factor
Apparently Meta knows that I appreciate sharing marsh blinds and upland coverts with women hunters. Why else would my Facebook account, under the guise...
Fabulous Pheasants
From a distance, I saw Rick’s springer push the bird into the air. The pheasant staggered at the shot, dropped a leg and kept...
Rain Gun
I hadn’t been looking for the gun. It found me. I was browsing an online gun-auction site, and there it was. Though the photographs...
Beretta’s Double Single Trigger
Bird hunters have long had multiple choices when selecting a method of discharging a shotgun. For 200 years, twin triggers were the bee’s knees...
The Song of SouthWind
Longleaf pines and hard-packed red-clay roads come standard in the South Georgia region that SouthWind Plantation calls home. Driving from Thomasville, Georgia, I headed...
Preventing Soft-Tissue Injuries
Is that just a little limp or hitch in the gait, or is your hard-charging bird dog about to succumb to a season-ending soft-tissue...
A Nevada Adventure
I was craving adventure in Nevada. Two weeks’ worth. I needed to test modifications to my travel rig and an “A-frame” camper I had...
Shotgunning Misinformation Continues
I've been writing for and reading publications that cover shotgunning topics for 55 years. I would like to think that in that time the...
Nordic Clays Launches the TrapMaster
DIY shooters rejoice! Nordic Clays, based in Denmark, has developed the TrapMaster, a handheld, battery-powered thrower that has the potential to reinvent “backyard” target...
Westley Richards’ ‘Falcon’ Gun
When the early 21st Century history of opulently ornamented firearms is written, the past 12 months will undoubtedly be described as the year of...
Gearing Up!
As each fall approaches, questions swirl around the upland season. Will there be birds? Will the dog work well? Will all the target practice...