July 2007

July 2007

Features

SHOT Standouts

New guns that caught our eye this year

  • By: Bruce Buck

Cheyenne-Country Roosters

Pheasants galore at Cheyenne Ridge Lodge

  • By: Chad Mason

Sweet Elsie's Ageless Charm

A timeless affection for a classic American gun

  • By: Michael McIntosh

A Passion for Elsies

The L.C. Smith Collectors Association

  • By: Ed Carroll

Lonely Shores

Where the waterfowling is greater than the sum of the ducks

Steve Barnett Fine Guns

A hidden treasure of the Deep South

  • By: Clair Kofoed

Santa Fe Trail Quail

On the path to great quail hunting in Colorado

  • By: Ralph P. Stuart

The Frederick C. Scales Gun, Part II

A gun's origins become more mysterious before a riddle is solved

  • By: Vic Venters

In the Drowned Lands

The gift of inheriting the hunt

  • By: Robert F. Jones

Departments

From the Editor

Freshening the Farm Bill with conservation in mind

  • By: Ralph P. Stuart

Letters

Ethics, disbelief, two-inchers and more

The Czar's Parker

$287,500 and Packed for Duluth

  • By: Ed Carroll

Robert "Pete" Petersen (1926-2007)

Robert Petersen Obituary

  • By: Douglas Tate

The Paper Trail Leads to RST

RST's paper-case shells

  • By: Vic Venters

Boss Trio from David Sinnerton

David Sinnerton completes a trio of 28-bore Boss-type over/unders

  • By: Vic Venters

New Scottish "Rounded- Action" From An Ancient Name

Thomas Mortimer guns from Dickson & MacNaughton

  • By: Douglas Tate

Bird Taxidermy Tips

Tips from Todd Huffman of Birdman Studios

  • By: Gary Hubbell

Tour Holland & Holland on DVD

"A Look Inside Holland & Holland"

  • By: Vic Venters

Field Report: Polywad's 20 Gram Crak-Rs

Polywad's new high-performance smallbore cartridge

  • By: Silvio Calabi

Readers & Writers Adventures

Join your favorite Shooting Sportsman writers and fellow readers at some of the finest wingshooting destinations in the world!

  • By: Ralph P. Stuart

Shooting

The divisiveness of "purity" in sportsmen

  • By: Michael McIntosh

Fine Gunmaking

A higher degree of metal finishing

  • By: Steven Dodd Hughes

Hunting Dogs

Pointers versus flushers: train well & to each his own

  • By: George Hickox

Shot Talk

Myths of short shells, shotcups & specialized chokes

  • By: Tom Roster

Field Gear

Great new gear unveiled at SHOT

  • By: Tom Huggler

Book Review

Gudgeon et al., Baker, and Wieland

  • By: Charles Fergus

The Major

A weak constitution meets a plateful of sweet retribution

  • By: Galen Winter