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Brian O’Keefe, cutthroat trout

Secret Weapons

The two books I reach for to help me concoct some sort of Water Boatmen…
Your obedient correspondent in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska in 1990, hunting Dall sheep. After a while, you feel naked when you’re not wearing your pack.

An Unpopular Topic. (Read it anyway, dammit)

Except for the demented few, physical fitness is not the favorite topic either of hunters…
Miss Barbara showing how it’s done, with her beloved Kolar shotgun on the trap field. She calls herself the “shooting Barbie,” but we wouldn’t dare.

Just DON’T Do It! (Sorry, Nike)

So, you’re a man thinking of teaching your wife to shoot clays? Hooray! Good for…
Robert Ruark and his two most enduring books: Horn of the Hunter and The Old Man and the Boy, and anthology of his eponymous Field & Stream columns.

Robert Ruark — An Appreciation

On July 1, 1965, I was listening to the AM radio in the kitchen when…
Dave Petzal

Tom McIntyre and Thunder Without Rain

On November 3, 2022, Tom McIntyre’s overworked heart shut down while he slept, depriving his…
The venerable Lee-Enfield, in its many forms and guises, is an iconic rifle in Canada, the army having used it with distinction in two world wars and Korea. Wieland favors it as ideal for an “armed populace;” it was also on the Liberals’ rifle-ban list, because of its 10-round magazine.

Rifles and Americans

For longer than any of us have been alive, Americans have rejoiced in being known…
The release

To Kill or Not to Kill

The dorado eats, as dorado often will, in a flurry of prismatic colors, blues and…
Wieland in the Chugach Mountains in 1990.

Treadmill Blues

There are three words that strike terror into the heart of an editor when you…
Since 2015, The Auberge Ar Duen in Le Domaine de la Hardounais.

The Auberge in the Brittany Forest 

In France, I am forever seeking out the remaining bits and pieces of authenticity that…
This 14th c. manuscript shows a galleon as a banquet table centerpiece for kings.

Renaissance Robotic Art – A Mechanical Galleon and Clock

It’s likely my fascination with “automata,” or automatons, dates back to a New York City…
Two Chapuis guns, a 20-gauge side-by-side Chasseur (top) and the 28-gauge Faisan Classic O/U. Two nice guns that could be great guns, with a little TLC.

A Pheasant Surprise

Leave us start with a confession:  I was fully prepared to dislike the Chapuis 28-gauge…
On Shed – As We Remember Them in the Last Days of Steam.

David Shepherd:  And There Were Also Trains

Artist David Shepherd (1931–2017) once said that he was attracted to all things “jumbo,” from…