V3N2 Feb/ Mar 15
It is often said that hundreds of hands touch the tobacco in a premium cigar before it is ready for cutting and lighting....
I grew up hunting. My dad gave me a sporting gun when I was 12, and I bought my first shotgun when I was 15. Still, I’ve learned most of what I know about gun dogs, shotguns, and hunting from other ...
Filed In: Bourbon, Drink, Toasting the Hunt
If you’ve read this column for the past three years, you know I don’t like to stray from the topic of whiskey. But brandy—which essentially means distilled fruit—is sublime. Like......
Filed In: Bird, Experience, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life, Woodcock
Recently it dawned on me what woodcock hunters are referring to when they talk about hunting their favorite coverts. As I understand it, a covert is a place that is......
Filed In: People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
After high school in Baltimore, Maryland, Gordon Allen lived on Barren Island in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay and worked as a hunting and fishing guide while helping to run the island’s......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, On the Hunt, Sporting, The Sporting Life
Beginnings and endings, beginnings and endings—these are all most folks remember in life. You remember your first day on the job, for example—when new colleagues giggled because you wound up......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, Memories, Stories, The Sporting Life
I wrote a book about my Brittany named Winston and our travels together and how he pointed all of North America’s 18 major upland birds, from Alaska to Mexico. My......
Filed In: Cigar, Toasting the Hunt
You’re on a perfect hunting trip with good friends. The day was clear and filled with sunshine, the temperature was crisp, and for once the winds in eastern South Dakota......
Filed In: Chef + Plate, Food, Restaurant, Toasting the Hunt
On the door leading into the kitchen of California’s The Restaurant at Meadowood are the words, “He that would eat the Fruit must climb the Tree,” an adage that could......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, International, The Sporting Life, Travel
Every aspect of a visit to Guayascate is designed to ensure that hunting parties are delivered the ultimate in wingshooting opulence—even the dramatic setting differentiates this remote Argentinean ...
