The Sporting Life
Filed In: Experience, Hunt, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Picture this: You’re working the edge of a hay field turned brown, cut months before in late summer. A lanky young German shorthaired pointer plunges in and out of the......
Filed In: Experience, The Sporting Life, Travel, Upland, Woodcock
At home on Cape Cod, late November is a time for reflection. That might be because the Pilgrims explored what is now our town center a few months before landing......
Filed In: Experience, Memories, Shooting, Stories, The Sporting Life
It was a week from his 68th birthday when we spoke and artist Peter Corbin of Millbrook, New York, shared how he first held a shotgun at age 6 and......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
English cocker spaniels hold a special place in my heart. Watching these handsome dogs hunt a field, quartering in their distinctive figure-eight pattern, is almost hypnotic. Like when you gaze......
Filed In: Bird, Grouse, Hunt, On the Hunt, The Sport Life
To me, “remote” was an abstraction, a vague idea of distance and expanse and low probability. Until I found it on a map. Remote, Oregon, doesn’t pass for much of......
Filed In: Culture, Gun, History, Stories, The Sporting Life
In 1948, a young Italian gunmaker man named Stefano Fausti stood at his workbench, picked up his files, and started a company. For most people, the time wouldnot have seemed......
Filed In: Bird, Dog, Hunt, On the Hunt, Shoot, The Sporting Life
At this time of year, I always wonder when I’ll get my last woodcock point of the year. Which dog will be the one to lock up on the point......
Filed In: Bird, Experience, Hunt, On the Hunt, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
It was a long way to the end of the fencerow, and plantar fasciitis was killing me. Each step felt like a spear was being jammed into the bottom of......
Filed In: Bird, Experience, Hunt, People, The Sporting Life
In my early days, during bird season I’d hunt an old spur-line railroad while walking to school. Bobwhite quail were the only native upland gamebirds to hunt in northern Illinois,......
Filed In: Bird, Experience, History, Pheasants, The Sporting Life
It all began in 1881, when ring-necked pheasants were introduced in North America. Over the next two decades they were liberated in 40 U.S. states. Mention pheasants to a bird......
