V3N4 June/July 15
Filed In: Conservation, news
The role corn plays for gamebirds and economies across the habitat landscape....
Learning about cigars—their history, tobacco cultivation, the curing and fermentation process, and the skills involved in cigar rolling—increases our appreciation of a cigar and heightens the plea...
At first glance, you might simply see limbs or branches, but the harvested wood shown at right and the shoots seen above—natural British hardwoods such as blackthorn, hazel, and ash—will be the ra...
Filed In: Cigar, Toasting the Hunt
Deeper understanding of our hobbies and pastimes leads to greater enjoyment of those passions. Isn’t that a prime motivator for visits to wineries and distilleries? That’s also why curiosi...
Filed In: Bourbon, Drink, Toasting the Hunt
An excerpt…In the realm of American whiskey, the term blend is a dirty word. Americans prefer to use “mingle” when referring to joining one barrel’s whiskey with another’s. Although the......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…This past October, I visited my friend Morris Baker at his company in Pennsylvania, RST/Classic Shotshell Company. We were discussing writing and sporting art and shotguns and bird dogs.....
Filed In: Dog, Experience, Hunt, Memories, Sporting, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…The young pointer quartered into the wind, his gait as effortless and graceful as a whitetail buck’s, his tail a high-waving baton. His black-on-white coat gleamed; his rippling muscles...
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…September, 45 years ago in the town of Twenty Mile in Powder Basin County (okay, not its real name), and I’m standing on an unpainted, planked floor, facing the......
Filed In: Bird, Dog, Hunt, Memories, Sporting, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…Cotton, an eight-year-old English setter, jumped out of the truck, hit the ground, and ran in a circle. A bit short for a setter, she was taller than a......
Filed In: Bird, Dog, Hunt, Memories, Sporting, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…I called home and told my wife Ruth I would take her to the Mexican place for lunch. It’s her favorite. I would be banking some “points” should a......
