Rifle Cartridges: All in the Family
The old, plodding 30-’06 Springfield, for instance, is not just yesterday’s news; it’s moldy, too, and so is anyone who hunts with one, according to millennials or whatever they call the most recent come-of-age generation. In contrast, the 6.5 RPM from Weatherby is a...
Long-Range Shooting at Game
There is probably no subject connected with shooting about which so much nonsense has been written and spoken as the distance at which game can be killed with the rifle. This was bad enough in the days of muzzleloaders. It has become doubly bad in these days of...
Twin Tubes: Side-by-Side or Over/Under
The double shotgun took its form when Joseph Manton (1766 – 1835) put two shotgun barrels side by side with their independent flint locks. Manton spent lots of his time working on explosive ordinance for the British Army, but we fondly remember him for establishing...
A Joyous Process: Joseph Sulkowski
In his vivid sporting scenes and in his nostalgic still-lifes of well-worn guns and fishing tackle, classically trained artist Joseph Sulkowski continually imparts his notion that a painting “should look like a lot of fun.”
Brays Island Plantation: Your Sporting Life Awaits
SPONSORED CONTENT Brays Island Plantation is a unique coastal community dedicated to providing residents and their guests with an array of recreational opportunities suited to their outdoor lifestyle. To this end, Brays Island meticulously maintains an expansive...
Holland & Holland’s Aim for the Future
Holland & Holland, long respected for producing firearms of the highest quality, was acquired in 2021 by the Beretta Holding Group from the French perfume company, Chanel. For three decades, the French company tried to redefine and reinvent the venerable old gun...
Flooded-Timber Mallards
Daylight promised its coming in typical Delta fashion. Scudding clouds that produced off-and-on splatters of heavy, iced rain drops riding a north wind that hardly qualified as gusts. Still, that wind was more than ample to toy with denuded oaks, easily making eager...
The Boat
Sit in it and my knees begin to hurt, my back starts aching, my shoes get soaked. Then, this green time machine pulls me into the past, and slowly the pains fade.
We Shot the Tamales
The O’Connor family enjoys fabulous hunting south of the border.