The Sporting Life
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......
Filed In: Artist, People, Scupture, The Sporting Life
Trying to write a profile of artist Bob Timberlake is like trying to hunt your favorite 1,000-acre bird habitat in half an hour. Your mind can wrap around the breadth......
Filed In: Dog, International, Sporting Hunt, The Sporting Life
It takes a real love of the game for a thirty-pound dog to retrieve a fifteen-pound goose through corn stubble or snow,” says gun-dog trainer Jake Bartells, describing his French......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Personalities, The Sporting Life
Whether he’s rendering the nuances of a hunting covert or conveying the barely restrained energy of a dog on point, Bob Bertram believes it’s all about what happens when light......
Filed In: Gun, History, International, The Sporting Life, Travel
Simon Clode welcomes me into his office at the Westley Richards & Company factory in Birmingham, England, the heartland of British manufacturing. We have spoken over the phone, but haven’t......
Filed In: Bird, Culture, Experience, Lodge, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Bird Camp is an eagerly anticipated annual pilgrimage, now in its ninth year. The players have remained the same, except for Brian Fay (the Counselor), who dropped out after the......
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Founded by John Barbour in 1894, the renowned British apparel manufacturer Barbour originally supplied oilskins and other garments to protect the growing community of sailors, fishermen, and dockworke...
Filed In: Experience, Habitat, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
There are times every bird season when I sneak out on my own to enjoy the woods Robert Frost called “lovely, dark and deep.” These are special days when time......
