The Sporting Life
Filed In: Experience, Personality, The Sporting Life
COVER STORY PREVIEW: DECEMBER-JANUARY 2016 What is the essence of the upland lifestyle, the intersection points between working dogs, double guns, time-honored traditions and the glory of fellowship a...
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Fishing, History, Wingshooting
Located outside of Savannah, Georgia, and proximate to the charming coastal town of Beaufort, South Carolina, and within a short drive of Charleston—the current capital of Southern lifestyle—Brays...
Filed In: Culture, Experience, The Sporting Life, Travel
In 2013, Wynfield Plantation reopened its doors to hunters, after the quail venue was closed to the public in 2009. The closure of Wynfield had been gloomy news for many......
Filed In: Craft, Culture, Gun, History, The Sporting Life
The Connecticut River Valley is the historic “gun valley” of America’s early industrial development in the heart of Yankee country, home to some of the great names in American shotguns.......
Filed In: Destination, Dog, Gun, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life, Travel
On the ground next to my spent 20-gauge hull was a shard of coal. It wasn’t a large piece, but its depth of blackness stood out so prominently amongst the......
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, Gun, Handmade, History, The Sporting Life
AYA is the most famous name in Spanish guns. Like Holland & Holland in England, it is the quality standard against which others are measured. The problem for any writer......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, History, The Sporting Life
Outside the First Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg, South Carolina, sometime around 1905, a small spaniel-type dog was noticed by banker Alexander L. White after Sunday services. White adopted the d...
Filed In: Culture, Experience, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…This past October, I visited my friend Morris Baker at his company in Pennsylvania, RST/Classic Shotshell Company. We were discussing writing and sporting art and shotguns and bird dogs.....
Filed In: Dog, Hunt, Sporing, The Sporting Life
The scenting ability of golden retrievers has been called the best among retriever breeds so often that the term “golden nose” was coined to champion their gift. Golden owner and......
