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Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, Hunt, The Sporting Life
Full disclosure: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool duck hunter from the Midwest. Nothing makes me happier than a mud-stanky Lab’s tail beating out a 4/4 rhythm on my leg with the clouds......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, Hunt, The Sporting Life
In the first blush of a fine spring morning, Linda Baker, director of the Upper Green River Alliance, and I disembarked from her truck in Wyoming’s 7-million-acre Upper Green River......
Legendary coach Bear Bryant hunted here. For serious football fans–and in Alabama it’s hard to find any other kind–those words make Five Star Plantation hallowed ground. But this storied land’...
Filed In: Dog, International, Sporting Hunt, The Sporting Life
It takes a real love of the game for a thirty-pound dog to retrieve a fifteen-pound goose through corn stubble or snow,” says gun-dog trainer Jake Bartells, describing his French......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Personalities, The Sporting Life
Whether he’s rendering the nuances of a hunting covert or conveying the barely restrained energy of a dog on point, Bob Bertram believes it’s all about what happens when light......
Filed In: Dog, Personality, The Sporting Life
Hunting presents challenges, for hunters and hunting dogs alike. The elements—extreme cold or extreme heat—can be dangerous. Additionally, the remoteness of many hunting coverts means no access to...
Filed In: Dog, International, The Sporting Life
For many owners of Gordon setters, the breed’s allure is embedded in its history. Unofficially, that traces back to the 1600s, but the official story begins in the early 1800s......