By Dave Hurteau

And how do we know the geese were “mutilated”? Because it says so in the newspaper. Here are the headlines:
Chicago Sun-Times: Four Canada Geese Mutilated in Naperville
Chicago Tribune: Naperville Investigates Slashings of Canada Geese

By Philip Bourjaily

For this, my last post of the 00s, I had been trying for a while – and failing --  to think of an end-of-the-decade blog post. My “Eureka” moment came while cleaning up after cooking our Christmas goose. I heard the “tink” of metal falling into the kitchen sink. When I fished the misshapen pellet pictured above out of the sink I realized Hevi Shot is the most significant invention in shotgunning of the past 10 years.

By Dave Hurteau

A dozen or more bowhunters who flung arrows at a panicked herd of elk cornered in a rancher’s pasture in Skagit County, Washington, on Saturday apparently did nothing illegal. They did, however, manage to kill 7 animals, cause an emergency closure of the area’s archery elk season, and make us all look really bad.

By David E. Petzal

A friend of mine asked me to write something about Warren Page, Field & Stream’s shooting editor from 1947 to 1972. So be it.

Page, whose nickname was Lefty,  started at F&S at just the time that the great wildcatting epidemic began. Every gunmaker who could ream out a set of loading dies had a series of cartridges with his name on it. Page, being a technoid of the first magnitude, was heavily involved in all this, and as he put it, “I wore out the decimal key on the typewriter.”