You trained all spring and summer. Your dog performed perfectly during the early season. But then a cold front moved in and the duck and goose migration kicked into high gear.
6 Fine-Print Reasons for Insuring Your Shotgun. Part 2: When Your Gunsmith’s Shop Goes up in Flames and Your Shotgun is Inside
The sun is just peaking over the horizon and a golden glow has fallen on the open water. Being in a duck blind has always been a peaceful place, but this particular morning seems exceptional. You can see the decoys bobbing in the breeze, waiting to be spotted…
Exclusive Excerpt from Don Currie’s New Book “Gunfitting: Achieving the Ideal Fit for the Game and Clay Shot”
Warning: Never use steel shot on a pattern plate; and, as always, eye and ear protection are essential. Lead shot flattens when it makes contact with the pattern plate and most of the time falls harmlessly to the ground following impact.
With Barrels Machined From a Single Billet of Steel, the Longthorne Hesketh Proves Itself as an Innovative Performer
Innovation is a word not typically associated with today’s break-open sporting shotguns. In fact, for a sizeable community devoted to vintage upland shotguns, the concept of innovation might just as well have stopped in the 19thcentury with the creation of rose-and-scroll engraving.
6 Fine-Print Reasons for Insuring Your Shotgun – Part 1: Unexpected Mishaps
Have you ever found yourself staring down at a damaged firearm and wondering what you’re going to do next? Were you involved? Was it an accident? Who is going to pay for the repairs? These are all questions that gun owners may face at some point.
A Backyard Dove Hunt From the 1980s
Amongst the suitcases in the Chevy Astro Van, was my father’s new Remington 1100, along with the Montgomery Ward’s 20-gauge pump shotgun. It had been 18 hours since we had packed the shotguns and left Kansas City. The trip had been filled with quick bathroom dashes, meal breaks on the go, and was very long. Accompanying the four of us, was my mother’s father, Abuelito Jorge, who was visiting from Guatemala. We were determined to arrive on time to partake in a family dove hunt.
At $725, CZ’s Bobwhite G2 is a Classic Double Gun for Everyone
Is there such a thing as the perfect upland gun? Is it even possible to answer that question without first defining the quarry, location, and method of hunting?
Hunters, in general, and shotgunners, in particular, are a peculiar lot. The variances in likes and dislikes are legion. The pheasant hunter ambling through corn stubble will often choose a 12-gauge over/under for his hunt. While the chucker hunter in Oregon will often go for a 20 gauge due to the lighter weight and commensurate improvement in performance.
Longthorne Gunmakers Makes the World’s First Shotgun Barrels From a Single Billet of Titanium
Oct. 12, 2021 – Northampton, England – Longthorne Gunmakers, renown for making shotgun barrels from a single billet of steel, has broken another technical barrier by machining barrels from a single billet of titanium.
Final Preseason Training Tips from the Pros
It won’t be long before field training, conditioning and obedience work give way to the true satisfaction of being back in the woods and fields enjoying the hunt with our canine companions. Here are a few final steps that some Eukanuba™ pro trainers take to get their dogs ready for the season opener.
Join the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the 2021 Virtual Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s annual national wildlife art competition – the 2021 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest – will be broadcast live on September 24 and 25.
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