The Sporting Life
Legendary coach Bear Bryant hunted here. For serious football fans–and in Alabama it’s hard to find any other kind–those words make Five Star Plantation hallowed ground. But this storied land’...
Filed In: Bird, Dog, Grouse, Hunt, On the Hunt, Prairie Chicken, The Sporting Life
Say “sharp-tailed grouse” to an old sodbuster and he’ll tip back his wear-stained, weathered, wide-brim Stetson, spit out a chew of Copenhagen, look you in the eye and then to......
Filed In: Dog, Memories, Stories, The Sporting Life
In the last two issues, we’ve examined gastric bloat and torsion, hypoglycemia, hypothermia, and heat stroke. In the last part of this special series, we’ll look at poisoning. At 14......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Each year, a certain autumn day breaks and slips over the Connecticut River, covering the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont with morning light. It is the beginning of a reunion for......
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
I met Mike when I moved back to River City after completing medical training. He sold medical equipment–everything one needed to set up practice. A quintessential salesman, loquacious and voluble......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, International, Sporting, The Sporting Life, Travel
The dog dropped on point somewhere in the wheat, leaving a void in the place he had been. A moment before, there had been a wind-blown Belton setter there, a......
Filed In: Art, Culture, Gun, History, International, The Sporting Life
In the Classical world, the ancients believed beauty and goodness were inseparable–that is, physical manifestations of beauty were considered outward expressions of inner qualities such as moral cha...
Filed In: Lodge, On the Hunt, Quail, The Sporting Life, Travel
If you’ve enjoyed quail or a quail egg in a high-end restaurant, chances are it came from Manchester Farms in Columbia, South Carolina. The family-owned operation got its start when......
Filed In: Craft, Gun, Handmade, History, The Sporting Life
The annual Safari Club International show in Las Vegas is set in the convention halls of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. The floor setup is a scene of barely organized chaos—booths......
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Brief bits of wisdom, aphorisms, and proverbs are sometimes called pearls because they are precious and valuable. (These are the kinds of pearls you wouldn’t want to give to the......
