January 2008

January 2008

Features

Bosis Is the Mostest

Luciano Bosis: builder of modern Italian masterpieces

  • By: Douglas Tate

A Mexico Mixer

Ducks and quail at Rancho Mescalero

  • By: Gary Kramer

A Toy No More

Purdey's new scaled-frame .410s: little, lithe, good-looking & lethal

  • By: Vic Venters

A Drilling in Africa

Birds & beasts in South Africa's soetveld

  • By: Russ Gould

Challenge in the Pines

No chip shots at Georgia's Eagle Rock Plantation

Perusing the Gun Library

Looking over the Cabela's collection in Kansas City

  • By: Clair Kofoed

The Great Grouse of Lapland

Chasing capercaillie above the Arctic Circle

  • By: Douglas Tate

The Messenger

Bearing news to duck camp

  • By: Bob McDill

Departments

From the Editor

Celebrating SSM's 20 years in production

  • By: Ralph P. Stuart

Letters

Cover shot, spaniels, Damascus barrels, macho slobs, and more

Game & Gun Gazette

The RBL-28, Reno shows, border quail, baggage issues, etc.

Shooting

The value of visual focus with a hard target and a fuzzy gun

  • By: Michael McIntosh

Fine Gunmaking

Doug Turnbull Restoration - putting on a perfect finish

  • By: Steven Dodd Hughes

Shot Talk

Don't beat yourself up: reduced-recoil loads

  • By: Tom Roster

Hunting Dogs

Using benchmarks to initiate training transitions

  • By: George Hickox

Gun Review

Beretta Silver Pigeon V: a scaled-frame 28 that's a hoot to shoot

  • By: Bruce Buck

Field Gear

New products for your next adventure

  • By: Tom Huggler

Book Review

Jackson, Heiple, Henderson and Harding

  • By: Charles Fergus

The Major

A lawyer's love unconsummated, a misdeed avenged

  • By: Galen Winter

Doublespeak

Restoring balance to a pair of Purdeys

  • By: David Trevallion

Going Places

Barnsley Gardens—a shooter's Eden an hour fron Atlanta

  • By: Bruce Buck