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How I Survived the Great Texas Drought of 2011 as an Upland Outfitter

Thursday, March 01, 2012
Written by Ann Kercheville
Categories: Ann Kercheville

March 1, 2012 is the beginning of the final month of the upland bird hunting season at Joshua Creek Ranch (JCR). In my mind, I picture the calendar as twelve monthly segments arranged in a circle. October through March segments appear smaller than the other months, and if my circular calendar were placed over the face of a clock, those six months of October through March would be all jammed up between 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock.  That’s how fast the hunting season seems to go compared to the rest of the year.

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When Snow Falls on Kansas Pheasant Fields

Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Written by Barry L Marten
Categories: Wingshooting

Wing shooting on the farm where I grew up in Montgomery County Illinois, about 25 miles south of Springfield, in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s was pretty much limited to pass shooting doves down by the pond, jump shooting ducks on local farm ponds or hunting quail along the fence rows and Osage orange hedge rows that bordered most farm fields and pastures in those days.

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Husbands, Wives and Dogs

Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Written by Ann Kercheville
Categories: Ann Kercheville

The other day I received a call at my Joshua Creek Ranch office from the wife of a wingshooting client. She asked if I remembered a newsletter we’d sent out several years ago that had a piece in it comparing the benefits of men having dogs rather than wives. She was in hopes of getting a copy of it to share with friends. I did vaguely remember it, but to tell the truth, searching for that particular newsletter rated about minus two on my scale of things I needed to do at this particularly busy time of the hunting season. 

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Shotgun Wedding(s)

Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Written by Holly A. Heyser
Categories: Holly Heyser

I remember so vividly the day I went to buy my first shotgun.

My boyfriend Hank and I drove a couple miles down the main drag of our dilapidated 1960s-era suburb to our local hook-n-bullet store, an utterly charmless building with windows boarded over and painted, and not so much as a sprig of greenery anywhere in the parking lot. It was ugly even compared with already-low neighborhood standards.

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Caesar Guerini, FABARM, Ithaca, Franchi, Connecticut Shotgun and Webley & Scott Hightlight New Sporting Shotguns at the 2012 Shot Show

Monday, January 30, 2012
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Guns

It’s Las Vegas, January 17- 20, and the sprawling Shot Show once again served as a venue for new shotgun introductions in our universe of wing and clays shooting. While Benelli’s Franchi and Stoeger units took the cake for the most number of new model roll outs at the Sands Convention Center, all eyes were on FABARM’s forthcoming semi-auto as it pointed the way for what we can expect from the company’s merger last year with Caesar Guerini of Cambridge, Maryland.

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Dove Hunting in Argentina Beretta Style – Part I: The Mission

Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Destinations

An important point you should understand about high-volume dove hunting in the Cordoba region of Argentina is that it ain’t for crybabies. Set out to shoot 1,000, 2,000 or 3,000 doves per day or more and you will inevitably experience the pain. Cheeks swell, shoulders bruise, palms blister and related bumps and aches arise as a matter of course.

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New Basserri Shotguns Premier Shooting & Retail Centers Encourage You “Try Before You Buy”

Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Guns

The Baserri Chronicles Part V: New shotgun companies are a rarity these days, and so when one comes along we’re eager to track its progress. That’s the idea behind our series, the Baserri Chronicles. In this fifth installment, we write about the advent of Baserri’s new dealer program called Premier Shooting & Retail Centers, where you can try before you buy.

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Our Hunting Friends

Sunday, January 01, 2012
Written by Ann Kercheville
Categories: Ann Kercheville

My husband Joe and I just finished a delightful late lunch at the top of Aspen Mountain in Colorado with our good friends Toby and Liz from Cincinnati, Ohio. We had met them in Scotland several years ago when we went on a driven pheasant shooting trip in the beautiful Port Patrick area.

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