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Catching a fish is always a thrill, but fly fishing reminds us that in the romantic world, letting the wild things get away is sometimes best for everybody. 

Fly Fishing Makes for the Perfect Date

St. Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and if this fact fills your romantically inept imagination…
Is she clean?

Do Your Part

In news I hope concerns outdoor enthusiasts of all stripes, the Columbia Basin Bulletin reported…
Fly tied by Brad Morris

Does Color Matter?

Tying flies for an upcoming trip to Baja where, this time of year, I’ll make…

Winter Boat Chores

While we’re on the subject of winter chores:  Need I remind anybody that it’s never…
To put a Frenchman on the label of a bottle of South African wine may get a mixed reception, but we are assured the wine (from limited production by Ivan Volschenk in the Cape) is excellent.

APHA Mail

This just in, as we used to say in radio when an urgent bulletin landed…
Central Pennsylvanian ladies know what the smell of juniper berries means. Some are more keen on it than others. 

The Gift of Game

I’m not sure if there’s an official rule for how many times something must happen…
Teresa and her Browning BT-99 trap gun. She says part of learning how to shoot trap includes learning to blame your poor performance on the gun.

Join the Club

While talking to Ed and his wife outside of church a few Sundays ago, Jim…

Gray’s Newest Contributor:  Teresa M. Mull

We at Gray’s Sporting Journal would like to introduce you to our newest columnist, Teresa…
The Adolph-Weber single-shot .22 target pistol as displayed in the Rock Island catalogue. Now really, who could resist?

Pistols & Mysteries

The name “Fred Adolph” prompted the vaguest of memories:  A custom gunmaker?  Gunsmith?  What?  As…
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…