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Wieland’s favorite page from Donald Dallas’s 2008 masterpiece, The British Sporting gun and Rifle. The shotgun is an Adams-patent Purdey underlever, typical of the superb illustrations that add so much to a book that is already extraordinary.

A Shotgunner’s Essential Library

There’s nothing quite like moving your home, office, gun room, and library to bring home…
Lot #117 – Patrick John Wayne's Colt Single Action Army Revolver 1 Of 1000 "Rusty Nail Edition"

Gun Auctions for Fun and Profit

Auctions are wonderfully fun events. It doesn’t matter if you are bidding or just looking,…
Steelhead, lower Columbia River tributary

Cracked

It’s no coincidence, I think, that the same year we’re witness to the largest dam-removal…

2024 SOUTHEASTERN WILDLIFE EXPOSITION GENERAL ADMISSION, SPECIAL EVENTS AND SELECT VIP PACKAGES AVAILABLE NOW

The Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that celebrates wildlife and the great outdoors through…

Fabarm Elos N2 RS Shotgun Review

Shotgun Passion with Travis Mears is a new exclusive series for this YouTube channel filmed…
AFFTA 2023

AFFTA 2023

If you’re like a lot of anglers, you may not give a lick about something…

Times A-Changing

Last week I received my latest issue of California Fly Fisher, the arrival of which…
Shoulder flexibility and strength can be improved with a simple flex band, repeated 15-20 times, in three sets.

Fitness for Bowhunting

Bowhunting season is almost upon us and, although I eschewed bows and arrows many years…
Alaska’s Chugach Mountains in 1990. Wieland is carrying his trusty Camp Trails internal frame pack. After that trip, and the conditioning that went with it, it fit him like an old flannel shirt.

The Labors of Hercules

If there is one basic ability every hunter should have, it’s backpacking.  To some extent,…
Winston Churchill’s work on a Sharps-Borchardt that sold at Rock Island in December, 2022. It brought nearly $30,000. Grace and three-dimensional quality? Indeed. Photo courtesy Rock Island Auction Company

Winston Gordon Churchill, 1939-2023

On July 31, at age 83, Winston Churchill of Proctorsville, Vermont, went to a world…
Gartside Dinghy, design #130

Inshore Skiffs

I received a note recently from a fellow boatbuilder who heard me on a podcast…
Photo by Gary Bulla

Travel Tying

Seated at the big communal dining table on the open porch at Baja Joe’s, in…