Issues
Filed In: Bourbon, Distillery, Drink, Toasting the Hunt
Here’s an easy one: What are the two largest American whiskey-producing states today? A quick Google search shows Kentucky and Tennessee in a landslide. But before the Civil War, neither......
Filed In: Gun, History, International, Shoot, The Sporting Life
In 1956, a young German machinist named Horst Blaser set up a business to produce a hunting rifle. Although not a trained gun maker in the German tradition, Blaser had......
Filed In: Memories, On the Hunt, Personality, Stories, The Sporting Life
I loaded the old pointer and was about to invite the adolescent sinner into the car. Rebel had behaved so badly on our last hunt that nothing he could do......
Filed In: Chef + Plate, Food, Recipe, Restuarant, Toasting the Hunt
Ingredients 4 quail, dressed and split down the backbone 1 pinch salt 1 pinch freshly ground black pepper 1 pinch cayenne pepper 1/8 teaspoon fennel seeds, crushed 4-6 tablespoons aged......
Filed In: Gun, People, Personality, Shooting, Stories, The Sporting Life
Lars Jacob is turkey hunting, everything he does revolves around shotgunning. He’s likely to be in the Covey & Nye gun shop in Manchester, Vt., searching for the exact gun......
Filed In: Dog, Hunt, The Sporting Life
To see an English Pointer at work, quartering a grain field and slamming into scent, is to see a pointing dog defined. In that frozen moment, it all becomes clear:......
Filed In: Hunter, Memories, People, Personality, Stories, The Sporting Life
Theophilus Nash Buckingham was, to use a once popular term, a gunnerman for the ages. Virtually all his long life was devoted to wingshooting and bird dogs, and the hallmark......
I had heard rumors of an exceptional wing-shooting destination, a quail lodge offering sport that was second to none……Tradition pervades every aspect of Pine Hill life. Each hunt is conducted......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life
Over my shoulder, I’m carrying a Browning over-and-under 2-gauge shotgun, walking a typical Western sagebrush draw with a dry creek bottom meandering through it. As I hunt alone with two......
Filed In: Chef + Plate, Food, Recipe, Restaurant, Toasting the Hunt
Chuck Wagon cook Chef Lenny McNab brings more than 20 years of culinary expertise to his role as executive chef at the Kessler Canyon guest ranch in western Colorado. At......
