The Sporting Life
Filed In: Gun, People, Personality, Shooting, Stories, The Sporting Life
Lars Jacob is turkey hunting, everything he does revolves around shotgunning. He’s likely to be in the Covey & Nye gun shop in Manchester, Vt., searching for the exact gun......
Filed In: Dog, Hunt, The Sporting Life
To see an English Pointer at work, quartering a grain field and slamming into scent, is to see a pointing dog defined. In that frozen moment, it all becomes clear:......
Filed In: Hunter, Memories, People, Personality, Stories, The Sporting Life
Theophilus Nash Buckingham was, to use a once popular term, a gunnerman for the ages. Virtually all his long life was devoted to wingshooting and bird dogs, and the hallmark......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life
Over my shoulder, I’m carrying a Browning over-and-under 2-gauge shotgun, walking a typical Western sagebrush draw with a dry creek bottom meandering through it. As I hunt alone with two......
Filed In: Dog, Hunt, hunting, The Sporting Life
It can happen at any time, whether moments out of the truck at the start of the new day or at the end of it all, tired, footsore and cold.......
Filed In: Hunter, People, Personality, The Sporting Life
Archibald Rutledge was the 20th century’s most prolific sporing scribe. Known to family and friends as “Old Flintlock,” he was an internationally acclaimed poet, beloved teacher and author of cl...
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......
