V1N6 Oct/Nov 13
Filed In: Experience, The Sporting Life, Travel, Upland, Woodcock
At home on Cape Cod, late November is a time for reflection. That might be because the Pilgrims explored what is now our town center a few months before landing......
Filed In: Bourbon, Culture, Drink, Toasting the Hunt
Irish booze has deeper historic connections than any whiskey category. Some legends indicate St. Patrick introduced distillation of grains around 5 AD, making Ireland the true origins of whiskey. But....
Filed In: Chef + Plate, Food, Recipe, Restaurant, Toasting the Hunt
Chef Hank Shaw Author of Hunter, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast & Duck, Duck, Goose: Recipes and Techniques for Cooking Ducks and Geese Ingredients for Roast Woodcock 2 to......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
English cocker spaniels hold a special place in my heart. Watching these handsome dogs hunt a field, quartering in their distinctive figure-eight pattern, is almost hypnotic. Like when you gaze......
Filed In: Bird, Grouse, Hunt, On the Hunt, The Sport Life
To me, “remote” was an abstraction, a vague idea of distance and expanse and low probability. Until I found it on a map. Remote, Oregon, doesn’t pass for much of......
Filed In: Culture, Gun, History, Stories, The Sporting Life
In 1948, a young Italian gunmaker man named Stefano Fausti stood at his workbench, picked up his files, and started a company. For most people, the time wouldnot have seemed......
The first half of the 20th Century might well be described as the golden age of the bobwhite. It was an era that produced some of the finest writing ever......
