Gun Review

Browning Citori Superlight Feather

I first hunted grouse with a Cutts-compensated 12-gauge Winchester Model 12. It weighed a ton. After lugging it over hill and dale for a day, I was lopsided. With all the subtlety of an aggressive blunt dissection, it dawned on me that upland guns are carried more than they are shot. A lot more. This led to my 30-year relationship with Browning Superlights. The year 1967 was a bad one for Browning. The salt-wood-curing process that Morton had sold the Belgians in 1965 now afflicted 90 percent of their wood stocks.

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