DEPARTMENTS ~ 3 ~ Greetings ~ 4~ Flushes ~ 6 ~ The Healthy Dog Droolers, Squinters & Coprophagiacs Walt Cottrell, DVM ~ 8~ From Our Mailbox ~ 12 ~ In The Swing The Theory of Wing Shooting - Part 1 Bryan Bilinski ~ 22 ~ Tailgate Review New Things for Spring The Upland Almanac Staff ~ 26 ~ Conservation Viewpoint What Kind of Quail Hunter are You? Anthony Hauk ~ 27 ~ For the Birds ~ 32 ~ New Traditions Gosh, I Love Bibs! Dan Donarski ~ 42 & 43 ~ The Check Cord A Potentially "Invisible" E-collar Problem Dave Hughes Crates: Pup's Second-Best Friend John McGonigle ~ 46 ~ Classic Upland Guns Stephen Grant: One of London's "Best" Gunmakers Ernie Foster ~ 48 ~ Lock, Stock & Barrel Keeping the Semi-automatic Action Functioning Josef Riekers ~ 54 ~ The Upland Kitchen Pepper Jackson's Double Battered Fried Quail Nancy Anisfield ~ 56 ~ Upland Almanac Classified ~ 64 ~ Tailfeathers Ebbs and Flows Tom Carney

features ~ 14 ~ Alaska Two Paths to a Successful Hunt Southcentral Alaska Text and Photos by Eric Goldwarg Wings Across the Tundra Text by E. Donnall Thomas, Jr. Photos by Don and Lori Thomas ~ 34 ~ Land Between Rivers Argentina's Entre Rios Province is a wing shooter's paradise located not far from Buenos Aires. Text by John C. Gosselin Photos by John C. Gosselin & Juan Pujana ~ 38 ~ Browning's Sweet Sixteen: Perfection in the Uplands? by by Nick Hahn ~ 44 ~ Whoops, Coos, Cackles & Flutters by Greg Hoch ~ 50 ~ This Old Dog by Alan Liere

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