The Sporting Life
Filed In: Bird, Chukar, Hunt, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
The very name of the chukar evokes the sound of its call and the ache in my legs at the end of the day. Chuka-chuka-chuka. Idaho’s Salmon River is called......
Filed In: Gun, History, International, Shoot, The Sporting Life
In 1956, a young German machinist named Horst Blaser set up a business to produce a hunting rifle. Although not a trained gun maker in the German tradition, Blaser had......
Filed In: Memories, On the Hunt, Personality, Stories, The Sporting Life
I loaded the old pointer and was about to invite the adolescent sinner into the car. Rebel had behaved so badly on our last hunt that nothing he could do......
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......
