The Sporting Life
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......
Filed In: Chukar, Dog, Experience, Partridge, Stories, The Sporting Life
We worked dogs for a very long time up a long, gradual slope to a position at the top of a rolling Oregon hill. From that elevated vantage point, I......
Filed In: Culture, On the Hunt, People, Personalities, The Sporting Life
The best bird hunt I can remember…? How could I pick one day above all the rest? It would be like saying one covey rise was the best one, better......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Lodge, The Sporting Life, Travel
We meet for lunch at Pine Creek Sporting Club, the exclusive hunting-and-shooting destination located in central Florida, equidistant to Orlando and south to Palm Beach. Professional-golf icon Nick Pr...
Filed In: Dog, Experience, Sporting, The Sporting Life
A dog you love should live as long as you do. How often now have I said this to myself since I began hunting over dogs? That was 59 years......
Filed In: Bird, Chukar, Hunt, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Up on top, in the saddle between the buttes, a 500-foot climb from the rocky two-track below, sits a rock. Plunked there by a volcano, created first in a cauldron......
