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Wieland hunting Cape buffalo in the rain on Mount Burko, in the Great Rift Valley of Tanzania. When you are clinging to a cliff by your toenails, having a binocular that is not bouncing around is a great boon.

Combos. Again

For the last ten years or so, my range bag has permanently carried, tucked into…
Canvasbacks
Canvasbacks

Rediscovering Francis Lee Jaques:  Part I

I knew nothing of museum artist, illustrator, and painter Francis Lee Jaques (1887–1969).  It was…

Stand and Deliver

When Scottie Little, our lodge manager, announces the onset of the inaugural Cedar Lodge Open,…
rooster fish

Surf’s Up

Perched on the edge of an island in deep Baja with my old friend Pete…
Speckle-bellies steadfastly ignoring our pleas.

Dem Gooses

For reasons that completely escape me, I have a persistent memory of a cooking show…
winter caribou

Winter Caribou

When we were researching our trip, these winter caribou hunts—all of them—had advertised 100 percent…
Not a bad morning’s take. And after all, how many pheasants can a boy eat? • Photo by Heidi Schaefer

Pheasants (Not Quite) Forever

One of our purposes here at the Gray’s website is to deliver flash reports from…
Arrieta y Cia. round-action sidelock built on a 16-gauge frame. A gorgeous gun, undoubtedly, but it was not quite there.

Perils & Pitfalls

What follows is a brief cautionary tale about the ordering of the shotgun of one’s…
One part of the French walnut stock on the E.M. Reilly, circa 1895, probably made for Reilly by P. Webley in Birmingham. Photos cannot do it justice. It was restored by Edwin von Atzigen.

New & Used

Here’s a choice for you:  A new, custom-built shotgun, tailored to your every arcane specification…
Colt Woodsman
Colt Woodsman Match Target, circa 1950, with floral-tooled holster by H.H. Heiser and magazine pouch by S.D. “Tio Sam” Myers.

Into Leather

Leather is one of three living materials that are essential to the creation of fine…

Hunting As Writ

Like Robert Ruark’s hero, Alec Barr, in The Honey Badger, who “knew he had them,…
hunting pleissner
"Hunting," by Ogden Pleissner (1905–1983) Courtesy of The Sportsman’s Gallery, LTD., Charleston, South Carolina

The Grouse and the Goose

The first bird came on a bright October day in North Dakota, near Scranton. My…