Shooting Sportsman, July/August 2006

The Cadence of Prairies

Huns & sharptails in the Western ‘out there’

Chukar Battle in the Sheepeaters’ Canyon

Casting & blasting on the Middle Fork of the Salmon

Benelli’s Finest

World class autoloaders for the field or collection

Guns from the Big Show

Running down what was rolled out at SHOT

Ivory Beads

[Photoshoot] It’s what you’d expect in LA: glitz, glitter, glam… fine guns. Just cross-town from Beverly Hills, Jim Thynne (above left) and Jerry Kitto set up shop five years ago in the suburb of Covina. Since then they’ve risen like stars in the fine-gun firmament. A-listers with fine performances

Vistas of Whitewings

A plague of doves at Rancho Caracol

A Georgia Eye-Opener

Discovering quail hunting at Burnt Pine Plantation

Laying it on the Line

Diver hunting with the Mighty Layout Boys

From the Editor

Hard to believe, but in July it will be three years since we lost Contributing Editor Tim Leary in that tragic fall. (If you’re too new to the magazine to remember Tim, he was our Field Gear Editor and the coordinator of our Readers & Writers Wingshoots.) Still, after all this time, hardly a day goes

Letters

Shedding Light on a Shooter The letter by Robert Cox (Letters, May/June) concerning his grandfather, Wilbur Cox, of Remington’s Shooting Team was most interesting. Two years ago at the Remington Society of America’s Annual Meeting and Seminar, Gordon Fosburg, an expert on Remington advertising, promotional

Time Travel with Philipp Ollendorff

This past January at the Safari Club International Convention, in Reno, I heard a comment that got me thinking. I was sitting in the Shooting Sportsman booth and overheard the following snippet of conversation: “Have you noticed that the best classic British guns at the show are made by Germans?”

Help a Grouse, Win a Parker

The Ruffed Grouse Society has organized a yearlong fundraising raffle to appeal to enthusiasts passionate about upland gamebirds and fine double guns: The chance to win one of the new $49,000 (Remington) Parker Guns for a $100 ticket. The limited number of 1,000 tickets doesn’t offer the best odds, perhaps,

Engraving Confab Reaches New Heights

As mentioned last year (see “American Engraving Gets a Boost,” Game & Gun Gazette, Nov/Dec ’05), Glendo Corp., a manufacturer of the GRS line of engraving tools in Emporia, Kansas, is leading the way in promoting fine engraving in the US. The company has partnered with Emporia State University

GaugeMates Tested: The Numbers

Tom Roster’s March/April Shot Talk column (“Inside Sub-Gauge Inserts”) gave us a good feel for the capabilities of each type of insert and its price/benefit tradeoff. However, the GaugeMate people, in California, were in the midst of their own independent testing when Tom’s article was written,

Bird Dogs Forever on DVD and on the Web

At a time when even wingshooting television shows tend to favor speed-metal soundtracks, the fast-cut editing style of rock music videos, and a “greatest hits” onslaught that packs a hundred tumbling birds or more into each half-hour, it’s no surprise that Dr. Christian Hageseth’s Bird Dogs

How Efficient Is Your Shotgun?

Many Shooting Sportsman readers are familiar with Don Amos’s and Tom Hamernik’s work on Moment of Inertia (MOI) and shotgun handling (see “Measuring MOI,” Sept/Oct ’01). In the great American tradition of endless tinkering, their concept recently was subjected to a sophisticated statistical

Shooting

Why a Parker?

Fine Gunmaking

Metal Finishes for Fine Guns, Part II

Sporting Clays

‘Squaring Off’ Targets

Shot Talk

Controlling Power-Charge Variations

Hunting Dogs

Beyond 20 Weeks

Field Gear

Vegas Jackpot: New Products

Book Review

From Locks to Laughter

Snapshots

The famous Ithaca Model 37 bottom-ejecting pump shotgun was reborn with the December purchase of the remains of the bankrupt Ithaca Gun Co. by an Ohio-based manufacturer. What’s more, the new owners say they want to bring back the New Ithaca Double. Craig Marshall has converted his family-owned business

The Major

Another Bear Story

Going Places

Little Moran Hunt Club

Guns of the Concours

An Olin Elsie