On the Hunt
Filed In: Bird, Grouse, Hunt, On the Hunt, The Sport Life
To me, “remote” was an abstraction, a vague idea of distance and expanse and low probability. Until I found it on a map. Remote, Oregon, doesn’t pass for much of......
Filed In: Bird, Dog, Hunt, On the Hunt, Shoot, The Sporting Life
At this time of year, I always wonder when I’ll get my last woodcock point of the year. Which dog will be the one to lock up on the point......
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: 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......