July/August 2011

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Features

Show Guns ’11

New and notable smoothbores for 2011

  • By: Bruce Buck

A Sporting Trifecta

Addieville East Farm, Chokebore Kennels & Robin Hollow Outfitters

  • By:

Dakota Wild at Torilil Farm

Hunting South Dakota’s ultimate honey hole

  • By: Tred Slough

Fieldsport, Ltd.

A full-service gunshop in northern Michigan

  • By: Terry Allen

Huns & Hi Times

Revisiting the good old days along Montana’s Hi-Line

  • By: E. Donnall Thomas Jr.

Greater Gifts

Humbled by an embarrassment of riches

  • By: Tom Davis

Departments

From the Editor

A fond farewell to The Major’s creator: Galen Winter

  • By: Ralph P. Stuart

Letters

Winston Churchill, Daisy, sporting clays, grouse hunting and more

Game & Gun Gazette

EPIC Outdoor Game Fair, McIntosh guns, American Engravers, etc.

Shooting

Preventive maintenance to keep your game guns going

  • By: Chris Batha

Fine Gunmaking

Comparing and contrasting a Francotte rifle and shotgun

  • By: Steven Dodd Hughes

Shot Talk

The new crop of sub-gauge nontoxics

  • By: Tom Roster

Hunting Dogs

Picking up on the idea of the conditioned retrieve

  • By: George Hickox

Field Gear

Highlighting the year’s new gear for the wingshooter

  • By: Tom Huggler

Going Places

Farming for pheasants at Kansas’ Beaver Creek Ranch

  • By: Scott Winston

The Major

Ashes to ashes, grouse to grouse

  • By: Galen Winter