On the Hunt
Filed In: Guns, Handmade, History, On the Hunt, Tradition
Bertuzzi shotguns have the unique design characteristic of ali di gabbiano, Italian for “the wings of a gull” as the sideplates spring outward like wings, revealing the lockwork inside. ...
Filed In: Destination, Dog, Experience, Lifestyle, On the Hunt, Wingshooting
Castle Valley Outdoors is a three-hour drive from Salt Lake City. The property covers 14,000 acres with 11 miles of Muddy Creek river bottom. Wild coveys of gambel’s quail live in the sloped terrain...
Filed In: Bettws Hall, Destination, Experience, Lifestyle, On the Hunt
As always, a team of eight guns was shooting four, 400-bird days, with each day consisting of three to four drives on some of the most renowned high pheasant and partridge shooting estates in the UK. ...
Filed In: Bird, Experience, Gun, Hunt, On the Hunt, Sage Grouse
The dirt road took us 30 miles from the highway, around a mountain, through a large basin, and then up to a long, treeless plateau. A cloud of dust billowed......
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: Bird, Experience, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life, Woodcock
Recently it dawned on me what woodcock hunters are referring to when they talk about hunting their favorite coverts. As I understand it, a covert is a place that is......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, On the Hunt, Sporting, The Sporting Life
Beginnings and endings, beginnings and endings—these are all most folks remember in life. You remember your first day on the job, for example—when new colleagues giggled because you wound up......
Filed In: Bird, Francolin, Hunt, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
We leave scars on the land that never quite go away. Some change the land for better and some for worse. Farmers plow, plant, and build. Miners peel back the......
Filed In: Bird, Dog, Grouse, Hunt, On the Hunt, Prairie Chicken, The Sporting Life
Say “sharp-tailed grouse” to an old sodbuster and he’ll tip back his wear-stained, weathered, wide-brim Stetson, spit out a chew of Copenhagen, look you in the eye and then to......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Each year, a certain autumn day breaks and slips over the Connecticut River, covering the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont with morning light. It is the beginning of a reunion for......
