July/August 2025

ON THE COVER:
Detail from Encounter at Drowning Creek, an original oil painting by Bryant White. From the collection of Carl Smith.

CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
5 Prime Possibles
7 People to Watch Joshua Krieger — Andrew Scott Wills
9 Doin’ It Yourself Getting Squared with Bright Ovals — T.C. Albert
17 Shooting the Bull Paul Bunyan Plainsmen’s 50th Rendezvous — Mike Nesbitt
25 Dispatches from New England Return to a Colonial Outpost - the Rebirth of the Fort at Number Four — Vincent C. Spiotti
35 18th Century Traveler Kasper Mansker, Part II — Matt Wulff
45 On the Game Trail All Antlers Taste the Same: The Trophy You Don’t Hang on the Wall — Michael Buss
54 Jeff Gier — Kyle Willyard
66 The 2025 Contemporary Longrifle Foundation Fundraising Auction — Joshua Shepherd
83 Our European Heritage — Bob Lienemann
93 Classified Ads
95 Index of Display Advertisers
96 For the Bookshelf