May/June 2013

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Features

Walking the Wild Side

Plying the prairies at Montana’s Twin Creek Ranch

  • By: Douglas Tate

Waterfowl Double

Hunting ducks & geese with two-barreled guns

  • By: Richard Grozik

Lone Star ’Fowling

A midwinter waterfowl smorgasbord from the Texas Gulf Coast

  • By: E. Donnall Thomas Jr.

The Greater Grouse

Walking the rangelands of Wyoming seeking sage grouse

  • By: Gary Kramer

Mysticism and the Art of Shotgunning

Shooting well, the author has discovered, is hardly a science

  • By: Charles Waterman

Puppy ‘Hunting’

The enjoyable process of selecting a new family member

  • By: Tom Davis

Gundog Gear

Items to assist in summer training

  • By: David Draper

Departments

From the Editor

Ghosts of gundogs past, and looking to the future

  • By: Ralph P. Stuart

Letters

Anniversaries, editorial integrity, tradition & gender, and more

Game & Gun Gazette

Minnesota shoots, Fausti, M.K. Reynolds, recycling Damascus, etc.

Shooting

‘Fault, Cause, Correction’: common misses and how to fix them

  • By: Chris Batha

Fine Gunmaking

An unusual boxlock from an inventive London maker

  • By: Steven Dodd Hughes

Shot Talk

Shotshell pressure standards and what they mean to shooters

  • By: Tom Roster

Hunting Dogs

Healthful advice from a field-trialing veterinarian

  • By: George Hickox

Gun Review

The Bosis Wild: an over/under sporter from one of Italy’s best makers

  • By: Bruce Buck

Gun Craft

Re-jointing a double gun with new, fitted hinge pins

  • By: Vic Venters

Going Places

The Grand Lodge: a South Dakota bucket-list destination for pheasants

  • By: Gary Hubbell

To the Point

The art of preparedness, gleaned from more than 50 years of traveling with dogs

  • By: Tom Huggler