Terry Wieland

Your obedient correspondent in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska in 1990, hunting Dall sheep. After a while, you feel naked when you’re not wearing your pack.

An Unpopular Topic. (Read it anyway, dammit)

Except for the demented few, physical fitness is not the favorite topic either of hunters…
Literary pictures of life in the great age of Victorian and Edwardian shooting—fact, fiction, and fantasy.

Oliver & Gladys

It’s time to recommend another book:  Olly, by Rupert Godfrey, is “The life and times…
Winchester pre-’64 Model 70 in .220 Swift, with a 26-inch barrel and fitted with a Meopta Optika5 MeoPro 4-20x50 RD scope. The rifle was manufactured in 1953.

A Match Made in Heaven

Not many cartridges can claim to have a mystique, and a cult-like following, but the…
What a century-old Brady case looks like after 35 years in the rafters of a henhouse. The rest of the case was no better.

Down to Cases

One is reminded of the famous line from 48 Hours:  The dishevelled cop, Nick Nolte,…
The venerable Lee-Enfield, in its many forms and guises, is an iconic rifle in Canada, the army having used it with distinction in two world wars and Korea. Wieland favors it as ideal for an “armed populace;” it was also on the Liberals’ rifle-ban list, because of its 10-round magazine.

Rifles and Americans

For longer than any of us have been alive, Americans have rejoiced in being known…
Wieland in the Chugach Mountains in 1990.

Treadmill Blues

There are three words that strike terror into the heart of an editor when you…
Eddie Bauer is a truly iconic name among enthusiasts of the more extreme outdoor endeavors, like camping at twenty below. Their goosedown line briefly reappeared in 2012, but it gone again.

The Proper Stuff

by Terry Wieland Apparel is not usually my bailiwick, and I don’t intend to write…
Gorgeous, no? Boss & Co. #6205, 20 gauge, made around 1915, is a self-opening over/under. It may be one of a kind. Or, it may not. Photos courtesy Rock Island Auction Company

Never Say Never.  Never!

Gorgeous, no? Boss & Co. #6205, 20 gauge, made around 1915, is a self-opening over/under.…
Double rifles of the quality of this W.J. Jeffery, built between 1929 and 1939, do not come along every day. Just seeing and handling such a rifle is a privilege.

The Fate of the Jeffery

A few of these missives ago, I alerted readers to the presence at the Rock…
Mannlicher Model 1903

Introducing the Ischler

This is not, admittedly, a puzzle that has me lying awake nights, but for many…
Over a 50-year period, O’Connor wrote more than a dozen books, and since his death at least four anthologies of his magazine work have been published.

The O’Connor Legacy

The annual gathering at the Jack O’Connor Hunting Heritage Center in Lewiston, Idaho, is part…
Meopta 8x56 MeoPro HD Plus. At roughly $800, this Czech-made glass is inexpensive by today’s standards, yet delivers performance that far out-classes what we considered the best of the best a few years ago.

Crystal Clarity

It seems like the Dark Ages now—that long-ago period when you could name the good…