The Sporting Life
Filed In: Dog, International, The Sporting Life
For many owners of Gordon setters, the breed’s allure is embedded in its history. Unofficially, that traces back to the 1600s, but the official story begins in the early 1800s......
Filed In: Dog, Hunt, The Sporting Life, Upland
My pup was 16 weeks old, legs too long and feet too big for the rest of her. Sometimes she missed the front step and went out flat on her......
Filed In: Dog, Hunt, The Sporting Life, Upland
My first dog was a springer spaniel given to me when the dog was 2 years old. Mike was his name but I sometimes called him Mike the Dog, to......
Filed In: Habitat, Hunt, People, Personalities, Quail, The Sporting Life
Dale Rollins figures he drove about a million miles in his career as an extension service biologist for the Texas A&M University system, what’s now called Texas AgriLife. Most of......
Filed In: Dog, Memories, Personalities, The Sporting Life
Hang on, boys and girls, for I am about to drop some theology and psychology on you and hint at a possible reason why God made dogs. Not having been......
Filed In: Dog, Hunt, The Sporting Life, Upland
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything,” goes the saying, and here’s some of what I stand for: I love all horses, some dogs, and no cats.......
Filed In: Bird, Culture, Dog, Experience, Habitat, Hunt, The Sporting Life, Travel, Upland
I pulled to the side of the road near the J. Robert Gordon Sandhills Field Trial Ground, rolled down the windows, and enjoyed the sweet, warm breeze blowing through my......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, People, The Sporting Life
We are leaving Montana, continuing the autumn hunter’s road trip to Alberta, Canada. In the morning, preparing to embark, we realize the lug wrench for the Burb (my Chevy Suburban)......
Filed In: Dog, Hunt, The Sporting Life, Upland
My pup was 16 weeks old, legs too long and feet too big for the rest of her. Sometimes she missed the front step and went out flat on her......
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Although he personally wrote two books of note on upland game hunting and edited two more, Eugene Virginius Connett (1891–1969) made far more lasting and important contributions to the literature......
