Sporting Notes

Garmin Xero C1 Pro chronograph—smaller than a box of ammunition, a third the weight, and usable under all conditions. What more could you ask?

Another Garmin Breakthrough

As a general rule, new technology is not at the top of my list to…
Gray’s shooting editor, looking the part at least.

Obsession

Obsession is one of that sad list of words, along with paranoid and amazing, which…
James Woodward & Sons double rifle (.450 Express 3¼) probably made for Woodward by Alexander Henry, around 1874.

Image. Imagery. Imagine…

One of my favorite times of year is the week between Christmas and New Year’s. …
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…
This boxlock shotgun by John Graham & Co., of Inverness, is about as plain as a British boxlock can be, and its engraving is minimal, to say the least. But it may owe its continued existence to that little bit of adornment, and it is a good, solid gun.

Aesthetics

Show the average person a Walker Colt—none of which were engraved, most of which were…
Wieland’s old friend, George Calef, in the Yukon in 2008. George was then in his mid-60s, and strolled around with a heavy pack like it was nothing. Those twigs you see sticking out of the pack were firewood to fuel our little ‘ZZ’ stove.

Take the Long Way ‘Round

We’ve posted here several pieces on physical fitness for various types of hunting, with specialized…
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…
Springfield Armory’s M14 (A1). To Wieland’s eye, it is better looking than either its predecessor M1 Garand or its successor, the M16 (AR-15).

The M14. Unsung. Much Loved.

To read John Lachuk’s piece in the 1965 Gun Digest, you’d think the M14 was…
The gun is a W&C Scott Monte Carlo ‘B’.

The Gun Room

The title of this piece might feel familiar to you, and rightly so:  It has…
An avocet, in flight. Illustration by A.M. Hughes.

Bledgrave Hall & After

Say what you will about the internet—and Lord knows, I’ve said enough, not always in…
Holland & Holland ‘Royal,’
Holland & Holland ‘Royal,’ freshly finished, borrowed for the occasion, and not (quite) disgraced.

Dawns & Departures

One frosty morning in December of 1998, I was standing on a hillside in Wales…
Jeremy Koerber demonstrating the one-arm row. Both weight and reps can be increased. No dumbbell? Try a jug of milk or a can of paint. Almost anything will do.

Keeping Up The Good Fight

Much as we might try to minimize it, hunting is essentially a physical activity.  It…