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pumpgun
The author with his lone Model 12, a 16 gauge from 1934. It still shucks them smoothly, and whacks them hard.

In Praise of Pumpguns

My old friend Clare was a great fan of Winchester, and so for more than…
shotgun
The raw material — an unbelievable Armenian walnut blank, cut many years ago, and a Dakota No. 10 action.

Wood Just Too Beautiful

The story begins in 2004, when I was possessed by a desire for a trim,…
rhinocerus
Albrecht Dürer's 1515 woodcut, The Rhinocerus, was based on a written description of the greater one-horned rhinoceros.

Contemplating Dürer’s Indian Rhinoceros

In what seems an impossible journey now, in 2017 we travelled down the Brahmaputra River…
bob hayley
Bob Hayley in his workshop, in 2008, with some of his old loading tools and a few (!) of his vast collection of loading dies. I never asked him a question about old guns that he could not answer.

Not an Obituary

Readers of Gray’s over the past dozen years will be familiar with the name Bob…
wingshooting
Jeff Ogle giving Mike (left) and Burt the obligatory safety lecture before we start.

Wingshooting 101

’Tis a sad fact, but these days very few of us grow up with fathers…

Dinosaur

The primeval jungles of Guyana hide arapaimas, where 150 million years have changed little about…
frank benson

An Important New Book on Frank Benson

I first heard about Benson-aficionado John R. Lewis at Pebble Hill Plantation in Thomasville, Georgia,…
shotgun

Gentlemen, Meet Lucile…

Lucile first crossed my path in 2018. One could wax metaphoric and pretend Lucile was…
Endless Flats
"Endless Flats"

Catching Up with Eldridge Hardie

I can’t believe a decade has flown by since I first wrote about Eldridge Hardie…
Terry Wieland
Wieland on a mountaintop, trying out a Springfield Arms Waypoint 2020. He is not over-dressed.

Not Quite a Blue Norther, But …

by Terry Wieland In his novel, The Searchers, Texas native Alan Le May describes what…
upland birds

Best of Both Worlds

Chasing upland birds in Big Sky Country in a fine lodge and on public land.
Peggy Watkins, "Honey In The Sun," oil, 12” x 16”, 2005

Sportsman’s Gallery Artists in Residence

Michael Paderewski has invited two “dog artists” as his Artists in Residence – Julie Jeppsen…