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Gentlemen, Meet Lucile…

Lucile first crossed my path in 2018. One could wax metaphoric and pretend Lucile was…
ftw ranch shooting

Courting Danger

by Terry Wieland The FTW Ranch, in the Texas hill country west of Kerrville, is…
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.
GERBER MAGNUM HUNTER
Gerber Magnum Hunter — one of the great folding knives from the 1980s.

The Kindness of Strangers

Back in 1985, I went into my favorite gunshop in downtown Toronto — there were…

FOLK ART — OR NOT

Fifteen years ago, I was offered the chance to buy an ancient Winchester 1886 for…

Guns ‘n’ Roses

In Alberta, shooting snows, specklebellies, and Canadas over the same decoy spread is not unusual.

10 Below

Genuine minus-zero degrees. Ice develops anywhere moisture clings or sits — except where warm springs…

The High Saddle

A dall drama in three acts. [by Terry Weiland] ACT ONE: MAN VERSUS NATURE Alaska’s…
The old Lee-Enfield No. 5 Mk. I, a.k.a., “Jungle Carbine,” was a decent “scout rifle” exactly as it was issued to British troops in Burma and Malaya in 1945. Other good factory scout rifles include the Savage 99 and the Mannlicher-Schönauer Model 1903.

Scout Rifles

THE ARMY SCOUT IS AN ALMOST MYTHICAL CHARACTER FROM FRONTIER HISTORY—as admired in his day…

The Undeath of Trapshooting

THERE WAS A TIME, 20 years ago, when you could hop in your car, drive…

Let it Slide

Why the American pump gun keeps going and going and going and going.