The Sporting Life
Filed In: People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
After high school in Baltimore, Maryland, Gordon Allen lived on Barren Island in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay and worked as a hunting and fishing guide while helping to run the island’s......
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: Culture, Dog, Experience, Memories, Stories, The Sporting Life
I wrote a book about my Brittany named Winston and our travels together and how he pointed all of North America’s 18 major upland birds, from Alaska to Mexico. My......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, International, The Sporting Life, Travel
Every aspect of a visit to Guayascate is designed to ensure that hunting parties are delivered the ultimate in wingshooting opulence—even the dramatic setting differentiates this remote Argentinean ...
Filed In: Culture, Experience, International, The Sporting Life, Travel
Having experienced firsthand the fabulous Guayascate Lodge, I continued my Argentinean sporting odyssey to La Porteñita, a working estancia not far from the dove fields of Guayascate. Situated at the...
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, Hunt, The Sporting Life
Full disclosure: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool duck hunter from the Midwest. Nothing makes me happier than a mud-stanky Lab’s tail beating out a 4/4 rhythm on my leg with the clouds......
Filed In: Lodge, The Sporting Life, Travel
Tucked into Lawyer’s Canyon along the Clearwater River in the northcentral stem of Idaho is a haven of outdoor diversity—Flying B Ranch. “The ranch consists of a little over 5,000......
Filed In: Craft, People, The Sporting Life
As a pioneering wildlife biologist, eloquent spokesman for the ethic of land management, insightful ecologist, best-selling author—in various editions, A Sand County Almanac has sold more than two m...
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: Culture, Dog, Memories, Sport, Stories, The Sporting Life
It all started in the early 1950s. Back then, English pointers were the preferred bird dogs south of the Mason-Dixon Line, English setters were the grouse dogs of the North......
