Features
Finding a gun for hunting the wide open
Quail hunting at Georgia’s Red Pebble Plantation
In pursuit of sharptails & ruffed grouse in Alaska
Reuniting a pair of Belgian boxlocks
Evaluating over-the-shoulder birdholders
Turning the tides on clapper rails
Chasing Huns across the Western prairie
Hunting birds that go down with a THUD!
An explosive battle with a beaver
Departments
A pair of books that could change the face of shooting
Vintage guns, pointer performance and words of praise
Beretta’a DT-11, the Monkey Loader, book reviews and more
In this issue’s Shooting column (p. 36), Chris Batha addresses any number of possible solutions to the problem of visual cross-dominance—one of the most vexing and often-hard-to-cure problems associated with shooting moving objects with a shotgun. Cross-dominance is an affliction I have not been immune to—and one, in fact, that worsened after I turned 50.
For the past half-century, wingshooting instruction has been dominated by two techniques: the Churchill method, as espoused by English gunmaker Robert Churchill, and the style of Percy Stanbury, the late, great instructor from the West London Shooting School.
Beretta Launches the DT-11
Part 3 on triggerplate guns: the MacNaughton round-action
Straight ways of dealing with cross-dominance
The proper way to report ammo problems
Chatting with Chad Hines of Willow Creek Kennels
The intercepting safety sear as it relates to sidelocks
The Franchi Instinct L & SL: value-priced performers
The Dragon Gun as a tribute to Chinese culture
In celebration of sharptails
