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What’s the Best Shotgun Mount for Wingshooting?

Monday, September 04, 2023
Written by Shotgun Life Staff
Categories: Briefs
Tags: shotgunmount, wingshooting

The quest for the perfect shotgun mount is an ongoing journey for wingshooters worldwide. Whether it’s the graceful flight of a pheasant or the elusive darting of a quail, a smooth and precise mount is essential to ensure a successful shot. With a plethora of shotgun mounts available, it can be challenging to determine which one is truly the best. However, by analyzing their design, functionality, and ergonomic benefits, we can shed light on the ultimate shotgun mount for wingshooting enthusiasts.

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Great Athletes

Monday, June 19, 2023
Written by Robert Bonev
Categories: Wingshooting
Tags: dogs, wingshooting

My two favorite activities, football and bird hunting are just a month away from their 2015 season. Like most hunters during this part of the year, I begin to plan and daydream for what is coming for both activities. Timing key dates for both has always been a struggle for me as I plan and try to do it all.

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Introducing the Fausti Wingshooting School at Hollywood Farms in Jeffersonville, Georgia

Thursday, October 06, 2022
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: News
Tags: faustishotguns, faustiwingshootingschool, hollywoodfarms, wingshooting

Whether a beginner or an advanced shooting enthusiast, be prepared to shoot over 200 clay targets a day as Fausti wingshooting instructors teach you ways to improve your shooting ability and then get in the field with the dogs and live birds on the last day.

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American Wingshooting on the Upswing

Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Written by John Wiles
Categories: Destinations
Tags: bestwingshootingcom, huntingtrips, johnwiles, wingshooting

Having been in the booking business for quite a while now, my key to a successful career was always great hunts in foreign countries, not just Canada (and a brief stint in Mexico) either, but really wonderful wingshooting places like Argentina, Bolivia, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, England, France, and Scotland, plus South Africa.  Covid put the kibosh on that for the past two years as most anybody knows, and the current state of the world, which is following the Ukraine/Russia conflict on an hourly basis, is not good, so travel has been down to say the least.

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Preseason Training Tips from the Pros – Part 2

Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Written by Tom Keer
Categories: Sporting Dogs
Tags: bird dogs, eukanbua sporting dog, eukanuba, eukanubapremiumperformance, preseason training tips from the pros, tom keer, upland hunting, wingshooting

Preseason training is a process, and we’re getting close to Opening Day. Here are some tips from Eukanuba™ Pro Trainers to get your dogs prepped for kickoff. It won’t be long before we’re all back in the woods and on the water where we belong.

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Pawpaw’s Gun: The Real McCoy

Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Written by Ian Burrow
Categories: Wingshooting
Tags: sageandbraker, upland hunting, wingshooting

Halfway through a box of lavish bismuth shot, watching yet another rooster soar (unscathed) into the sunrise, I began to question my devotion to the idea. The echoes from the peanut gallery didn’t help my confidence in the matter. Are you sure you don’t want to go back to the truck and swap out guns? I worked the bolt and dismissed the notion of swapping guns. To do that would be to quit, and that wasn’t going to happen.

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Shotgunning in the Automatic Mind: The Creation of the Most Beautiful Shotgun Instruction Book Ever Published

Tuesday, October 06, 2020
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotguns
Tags: claysshooting, shotgunbooks, shotgunlessons, shotgunningintheautomaticmind, skeetshooting, sportingclays, warrenwatson, wingshooting

In 2001, Margaret Wilfley finally put her foot down. She was no longer going to be a bystander after watching her husband Mike and friends during a week in England shooting driven birds. She would learn shotgunning.  Mike knew she meant it and years of marriage told him that he needed to find an excellent coach rather than try to teach her himself. Friends recommended Warren Watson. From the very first lesson, it was clear why.

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Is Your Dog Disobedient – or Deaf?

Tuesday, October 09, 2018
Written by Robert Milner
Categories: Wingshooting
Tags: bird dogs, dog field trials, dogs, duck hunting, duckhill kennels, gun dogs, robert milner, upland hunting, wingshooting

When a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer is “Yes the wolf hears it.” The wolf’s direct descendant, the dog, shares the wolf’s very sensitive hearing. According to the sparse research available, the dog’s hearing is four times more sensitive than man’s.

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Wingshooting Stories

Saturday, August 30, 2008
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Wingshooting
Tags: chokes, gauge, lead, shooting, shot, upland, wingshooting

Wingshooting is the real deal for shotgun enthusiasts.

Clays sports such as skeet, trap and sporting clays were originally invented with a single goal in mind: improve your ability to shoot real birds with real feathers.

While a hefty kill for the day will certainly bring on a healthy smile, wingshooting is more than shooting your own dinner.

Wingshooting tradition runs deep in the American psyche. For many, wingshooting and the Second Amendment’s the right to bear arms, are virtually synonymous.

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