On the Hunt
Filed In: Bird, On the Hunt, Quail, The Sporting Life
I’ve always been reluctant to take a partner along when I hunt the singing windmill arroyo, whose loveliness and loneliness seem to demand solitude. Still, sometimes I relent and feel......
Filed In: Hunt, Memories, On the Hunt, Quail, The Sporting Life
Cle-cle-cle. The sound was unmistakable—mountain quail. I hadn’t guessed I could find them this close to home. We saw their three-toed tracks in new-fallen snow. When we bounced a covey......
Filed In: Bird, Chukar, Hunt, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
The very name of the chukar evokes the sound of its call and the ache in my legs at the end of the day. Chuka-chuka-chuka. Idaho’s Salmon River is called......
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: 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: Culture, Gun, History, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
From James Bond’s first pistol to the official sidearm of the U.S. Army, from the shooting lines at the Grand to the high-volume dove-shooting of South America, you will find......
Filed In: Bird, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
It was willow ptarmigan that did it… …The plane spit us out on the edge of Heart Lake, so named on our first approach because – well, hell – it......
Filed In: hunting, On the Hunt, People, Quail, The Sporting Life, Travel
There is a notion across North America that good bobwhite quail hunting is gone for the average bird hunter. I disagree. For the past 25 years, I have focused my......
Filed In: Bird, Bobwhite, Craft, Dog, On the Hunt, Partridge, Quail
Havilah Babcock, a beloved English professor at the University of South Carolina, has often been described as the unofficial poet laureate of the bobwhite quail. “Call him Bob White, quail,......
