The magazine of wingshooting and fine guns

Features
Smashing New Smoothbores The 30th Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show featured 1,948 exhibitors covering 16 acres with products. An overview of what was new in shotguns. Bruce Buck
Havoc with Huns A personal odyssey with much "how-to" hunt Hungarian partridge Clair Kofoed
America's Game, Part I A history and present-day overview of trapshooting in the US Dave Holmes
For the Love of Shooting A biography of world-renowned wingshooting personality Chris Batha Vic Venters
A Welsh Fantasy Five days of driven pheasant and woodcock shooting in Wales, and a visit with gun expert David Baker Steve Helsley & Roger Sanger
Lost But Found “While it is true that very few people become permanently lost and meet with disaster because of it, there are few outdoorsmen who have never become confused in the woods.” Tom Davis
The Wonder of Woodcock A tale of walked up and driven woodcock shooting in Ireland Douglas Tate
Dewing’s Fly & Gun Shop a 6-page photo essay featuring unusual, unique and one-of-a-kind guns found at Dewing’s Fly & Gun Shop Terry Allen

Features

Smashing New Smoothbores

The 30th Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show featured 1,948 exhibitors covering 16 acres with products. An overview of what was new in shotguns.

Bruce Buck

Havoc with Huns

A personal odyssey with much "how-to" hunt Hungarian partridge

Clair Kofoed

America's Game, Part I

A history and present-day overview of trapshooting in the US

Dave Holmes

For the Love of Shooting

A biography of world-renowned wingshooting personality Chris Batha

Vic Venters

A Welsh Fantasy

Five days of driven pheasant and woodcock shooting in Wales, and a visit with gun expert David Baker

Steve Helsley & Roger Sanger

Lost But Found

“While it is true that very few people become permanently lost and meet with disaster because of it, there are few outdoorsmen who have never become confused in the woods.”

Tom Davis

The Wonder of Woodcock

A tale of walked up and driven woodcock shooting in Ireland

Douglas Tate

Dewing’s Fly & Gun Shop

a 6-page photo essay featuring unusual, unique and one-of-a-kind guns found at Dewing’s Fly & Gun Shop

Terry Allen

Departments
Departments: Sporting Clays	Archive »
Our new clays coach fires his opening salvo Chris Batha
From the Editor	Archive »
A farewell to former Sporting Clays Editor Barry G. Davis and a welcome to our new Sporting Clays Editor Chris Batha and new Editor at Large Tom Davis, with brief bios Ralph Stuart
Letters	Archive »
Turkeys, Capercaillie, Dove Shooting, Stamp Support and a Good Start
Game & Gun Gazette	Archive »

Fine Gunmaking	Archive »
Researching the origins of a Philadelphia double Steven Dodd Hughes
Shooting	Archive »
Positioning the hands to improve success Michael McIntosh
Shot Talk	Archive »
Weighing in on the facts with the .410 Tom Roster
Hunting Dogs	Archive »
Must-have gear for dogmen George Hickox
Field Gear	Archive »
A wingshooter’s Top Ten from the SHOT Show Tom Huggler
Book Review	Archive »
Fersen, Heavey, Swan and Sundseth Charles Fergus
The Major	Archive »
Snorting up ducks as grounds for commitment Galen Winter

July-August 2008

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