The Sporting Life
Filed In: Dog, Hunt, The Sporting Life
A quarter-inch of ice lay on the surface of the flooded Arkansas rice field in early January. Tank, a 6-year-old German wirehaired pointer, sat quietly in the blind as we......
Filed In: Culture, Gun, History, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
From James Bond’s first pistol to the official sidearm of the U.S. Army, from the shooting lines at the Grand to the high-volume dove-shooting of South America, you will find......
Filed In: Culture, People, Personality, Stories, The Sporting Life
Totally exasperated, I pulled the truck to the side of the road, jumped out and checked my boots. “It’s got to be you, Vic,” I growled. “Get out and check......
Filed In: Culture, hunting, Lodge, People, The Sporting Life
Roberts County lies in the northeast part of the Texas panhandle, its 924 square miles of high, lonesome emptiness occupied by fewer than 1,000 hardy and independent souls. Some of......
Filed In: Culture, People, Personality, Stories, The Sporting Life
Totally exasperated, I pulled the truck to the side of the road, jumped out and checked my boots. “It’s got to be you, Vic,” I growled. “Get out and check......
Filed In: Bird, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
It was willow ptarmigan that did it… …The plane spit us out on the edge of Heart Lake, so named on our first approach because – well, hell – it......
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
Old Dr. Foshee loved to bird hunt. He basically assumed the hunting rights in all the New Site area and wherever he could get in his Ford Model T or......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Memories, On the Hunt, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
In the vast annals of the quail hunting experience, possibly no story carries greater power and poignancy than Robert Ruark’s “But Not on Opening Day.” Originally published as one of......
Filed In: Dog, Habitat, Hunt, People, Pheasant, Quil, The Sporting Life
The town of Toppenish in the southern half of Washington takes its name from the Indian “Xuupinish,” which means “sloping and spreading.” You get a sense of its meaning in......
Filed In: Craft, Gun, Handmade, History, International, The Sporting Life
Few companies adapt to a changing world and remain relevant centuries after their founding, but gunmakers have a talent for it – and none more so than London’s Holland &......
