The Sporting Life
Because of their exuberant, tail-wagging friendliness, many people don’t realize that well-bred sporting goldens are not only excellent trackers on land or water, but also excel at bomb-sniffing and...
Great shotguns come up all the time—I know another “must-have” will be along soon. You will make mistakes, you will buy bad guns, and you will end up losing some money. But you will also meet gr...
Using gamebird feathers as the dressings for fishing flies will preserve the memories of successful hunts, and extend the bounty of your hunt to a trout stream or other fishery....
Filed In: People, The Sporting Life
Talk to the team at Live Water Properties, which has licensed brokers in each of the aforementioned states and can help you realize your ownership dream of a recreational ranch—or if you’ve alread...
Filed In: Destination, The Sporting Life, Travel
The bird hunting in Argentina is legendary. Skies are filled with birds and loaders work feverishly to the steady pulse of gunshots ringing through the air—it’s a chaotic scene. But this is the im...
Filed In: Experience, Gun, History, Lifestyle, Memories, Stories
There is pride in the recollection, but there is also the tacit reality that a boy’s early steps to manhood are cast in the footprints of his father and that, while that training may start on the fi...
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...
