September 2009

September 2009

Features

Charles Hellis: A Hunger for Success

Speciaizing in spring-openers made the old-fashioned way

  • By: Douglas Tate

Wingshooting with 'Papa'

Laying to rest some of the Hemingway myths

  • By: Roger Sanger & Silvio Calabi

A Passion for Grouse

Habitat management & beyond at Battenkill Lodge

  • By: Tred Slough

Les Fusils de Verney-Carron

The guns of a fine French maker

  • By: Mark Stone

Wide-Open Sharptails

Pulling wild birds from an endless sky

  • By: Clair Kofoed

Big-River Divers

Seeing the Potomac anew, through a hunter's eye

  • By: Douglas Bennett Lee

The Captain & the Reelfoot Stove

Heating things up in the duck blind

  • By: Bob McDill

Departments

From the Editor

Foregoing the field for a few days of fall's larger shoots

  • By: Ralph P. Stuart

Letters

Defending Drillings, the best-action debate & thanks for the ptarmigan

Game & Gun Gazette

The 13th Vintage Cup, gunmakers at Kessler Canyon, Bertuzzi, Barbour, etc.

Shooting

Overcoming obstacles on the trap field

  • By: Michael McIntosh

Fine Gunmaking

How we love fine guns—let us count the ways

  • By: Steven Dodd Hughes

Shot Talk

Part II on the best ballistics available for the 3" 20-gauge

  • By: Tom Roster

Hunting Dogs

Risking gun-shyness at the school of random happenstance

  • By: George Hickox

Sporting Clays

Six shooting techniques, and how & when to apply them

  • By: Chris Batha

Gun Review

The FAMARS Dove Gun as a functional work of art

  • By: Bruce Buck

Guncraft

The Holy Grail of barrelmaking: concentricity

  • By: Vic Venters

Field Gear

Five items to take to the woods and fields this fall

  • By: Tom Huggler

Book Review

Cassell, Williams, Holt, Greenfield & Madson

  • By: Charles Fergus

Going Places

Primland: fine gunning & a new lodge in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains

  • By: Clarke C. Jones

Going Places

Pine Creek Sporting Club: a Florida paradise for resident shooters

  • By: Bruce Buck

The Major

Creative grant writing as a ticket to the gravy train

  • By: Galen Winter