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Klamath River
The Klamath River runs through former Copco No. 2 dam site. Photo credit Swiftwater Films

The Klamath Restored

Early this month, the Klamath River Renewal Corporation announced that Kiewit, the contractor hired to…
Chinook salmon
Chinook salmon, female

Ikura

I’d start by saying she was fat, really fat – but then immediately it would…
tom turpin
The closest a writer comes to immortality—having words and thoughts enclosed between hard covers. These three books, plus a complete collection of Gun Digest from the mid-80s onwards, will give you the breadth of Tom Turpin’s work.

Lives, Deaths, Eras, and Random Thoughts

As you might have read here, in a note by Dave Petzal, the rifle world…

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Beth Davis with her trusty Ithaca, practising trap with the Garmin XERO S1. This is not the trap field on which we were shooting in this article. On this one (St. Louis Trap & Skeet) side-winds are normal but treacherous down-drafts all but unknown.

Woe Was Us

Every so often, something happens that makes you question everything you thought you knew, but…
rooster fish

Surf’s Up

Perched on the edge of an island in deep Baja with my old friend Pete…

Simon Says

Schooled by a dad and grandfather who took sportfishing of all kinds fairly seriously, I…
In the absence of a triumphant photo of dead bear cubs in Russia, I offer this from a hacienda in Argentina where the old ways — the good ways — are still followed.

Back in the USSR

Back in what now seems another era, I was invited to go bear hunting in…
The boneyard.

Good Enough?

Still, as with a shelf full of common yet capable hand planes, I glance at…
Clean water: a must.

Be Safe

A friend of mine guiding this summer in Alaska just reported that he’s come down…
This iconic (and archaic) engraving of an old-time trap shooter appeared on the frame of the famous Ithaca 4E, almost from start to finish.

Revisiting the King of Trap Guns

Trap guns, especially old trap guns, have a magic all their own. They are to…
The Blaser F3, darkly handsome in fine walnut, here shown in a field configuration that does equally well for skeet.

One and Only…Maybe

Every so often, the question arises, “If you could own only one shotgun, what would…