Issues
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Habitat, The Sporting Life, Travel
An excerpt…Located at the head of Coverdale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, in the North West of England, Coverhead Moor lies at an altitude of 1,000 to 2,000 feet,......
Filed In: Conservation, Habitat
An excerpt…Walking a freshly turned firebreak, I was dripping a diesel-and-gasoline cocktail along the edge of planted pines when an Eastern hognose snake bumped the tip of my torch with......
Filed In: Bird, Bobwhite, Dog, 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: Culture, Experience, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life, Vehicle
An excerpt…To test the Ferrari FF’s versatility, last fall we drove one across rural northern New England, from the Maine coast over New Hampshire’s White Mountains and Vermont’s Green Mountai...
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Lodge, The Sporting Life, Travel
At the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, Chef Scott Ostrander conjures quality at the Red Stag Grill. An excerpt…The locavore tradition in western North Carolina dates back to......
Filed In: Attire, Craft, Handmade, Tweed
It’s a matter of fit—first, foremost, and always the fit. Shoulder your best gun: Does your coat let your arms and shoulders rise to the occasion, and your torso swing......
Filed In: Dog, Experience, On the Hunt, Sporting, The Sporting Life
I’m in my hunting-gear and kennel building lacing up my boots with mother, Petunia, daughter, Merri-Merri—both Brittanys—and Misty, a sleek little English pointer. The three are hurrying me alon...
Filed In: Artist, Painting, People, The Sporting Life
I have a personal kinship with the artist Chris D. (C.D.) Clarke that stems from common geographic history—I grew up outside Syracuse, New York, hunting and fishing, and Clarke was......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, People, The Sporting Life
“People enjoy participating in sports they love, and golf lines up with sporting clays. But who needs another golf tournament? Fifteen years ago we found something different with sporting clays,......
Filed In: Bourbon, Drink, Toasting the Hunt
I have some bad news. There’s a bourbon shortage—and it’s only getting worse. Unprecedented domestic demand and export growth, combined with the lack of quality American white oak with which......
