The Sporting Life
Filed In: Bird, Culture, Destination, Dog, Experience, Horses, On the Hunt, Shooting
In search of wild birds and the Western frontier at Oregon’s Ruggs Ranch. ...What is guaranteed is a grand adventure, and an experience as close as it gets to capturing the spirit of the Western ...
Filed In: Culture, Destination, Dog, Experience
About an hour east of Tallahassee, Florida, just a short hop from Thomasville, Georgia, in the heart of the Southern quail-hunting culture, Dixie Plantation has figured prominently in pointing-dog his...
Filed In: Inside The Issue, The Sporting Life
Finding a sense of place: part of the appeal of being in the outdoors is finding the places that feel right, that feel natural, that feel like home. In our April-May issue, we introduce you to people ...
Filed In: On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Writer and photographer Roger Catchpole captured this image of two male Hungarian partridge on a fence post near Livingston, Montana, this past fall while hunting with Covey Rise columnist Ben O. Will...
Filed In: Culture, Destination, Dog, Experience
The Tennessee Walking Horse is the traditional field trial mount. Its comfortable, four-beat gaits, ground-eating stride, willing temperament, and all-day endurance make it an effective and enjoyable ...
Filed In: Dogs, hunting, On the Hunt, Training
Judy Balog, who owns and runs Silvershot Weimaraners in Michigan with Jerry Gertiser, has owned Weimaraners for more than 20 years....
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: Gun, Handmade, History, Shooting, The Sporting Life
The Scottish firm, and the man who gives his name to it, unite technical skill and artistic flair in the making of best guns....