Terry Wieland is shooting editor of Gray’s Sporting Journal and a recognized authority on fine firearms. He is also a columnist for Rifle, Handloader, and Safari Times.He is a regular contributor to the annual Gun Digest and has won the Gun Digest John T. Amber Literary Award.

In 1971, as a journalist, Wieland made his first trip to Africa to cover the civil war in the Sudan, returned in 1972 to cover the turmoil in Uganda, and again in 1976, covering both the bush war in Rhodesia and the riots in South Africa. He made his first hunting safari in 1990 and has returned a dozen times since, hunting in Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

Wieland is the author of Spiral-Horn Dreams (1995), The Magic of Big Game (1998), A View From A Tall Hill (2000), Spanish Best: The Fine Shotguns of Spain (1994 & 2002), Vintage British Shotguns (2008), and Dangerous-Game Rifles (2006 & 2009).

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