The Sporting Life
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
It was the first weekend of February, the customary time for Paul and me to quail hunt with William on his farm in Early County, Georgia. All afternoon William had......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, The Sporting Life, Travel
Imagine learning to ride horses and beginning to master equestrian techniques, while learning to fly fish and enjoying shooting five-stand and sporting clays and also, in season, working with sporting...
Filed In: Gamebird, Hunt, Hunter, On the Hunt, Shooting, Sporting, The Sporting Life, Upland
I love a fast-and-furious day of hunting Hungarian partridge, but there are times when a desire comes to travel through shrub grasslands in the shadow of the Rocky Mountain range......
Filed In: Experience, Memory, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Between hunting seasons, I have time to catch up on all the tasks that come from hunting hard. I pass my time stitching my vests and shooting shirts; cleaning my......
Filed In: Bird, Grouse, Hunt, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life, Woodcock
There is a rough stone wall at the bottom of the Blackmer place in Massachusetts that runs north to south along the forest edge. In New England fashion, it is......
Filed In: Bird, Hunt, On the Hunt, Pheasant, The Sporting Life
For several years, I helped out on a hunting preserve that offered several species of gamebirds, including pheasants. Depending on the time of year, the pens held anywhere from 200......
Filed In: Bird, Conservation, Dog, Habitat, On the Hunt, People, The Sporting Life
Herbert Stoddard, author of The Bobwhite Quail: its Habits, Preservation, and Increase, wrote in the 1950s: “The bobwhite might probably be called the Fire Bird.” If ever there was a......
Filed In: Dog, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Trying to describe the wirehaired pointing griffon (ususally shortened to simply “griffon”) is a flirtation with paradox. The words “soft, cute, calm” come out in the same breath as “desire,...
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Memories, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life
Again I travel east, over a blue highway passing through big, open grasslands that stretch for miles. To my left, the mixed grass prairie extends north through much of the......
Filed In: Gun, Handmade, History, Shooting, The Sporting Life
The chiming of Big Ben in London signaling the 2014 New Year also marked the beginning of a momentous celebration for all involved with storied gunmaker James Purdey & Sons......
