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Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Founded by John Barbour in 1894, the renowned British apparel manufacturer Barbour originally supplied oilskins and other garments to protect the growing community of sailors, fishermen, and dockworke...
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
It was half past noon and the day was sad and gray like the underside of a bat’s wing. The drizzling sky stretched unending from horizon to horizon and made......
Filed In: Habitat, Hunt, People, Personalities, Quail, The Sporting Life
Dale Rollins figures he drove about a million miles in his career as an extension service biologist for the Texas A&M University system, what’s now called Texas AgriLife. Most of......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, People, The Sporting Life
We are leaving Montana, continuing the autumn hunter’s road trip to Alberta, Canada. In the morning, preparing to embark, we realize the lug wrench for the Burb (my Chevy Suburban)......
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Although he personally wrote two books of note on upland game hunting and edited two more, Eugene Virginius Connett (1891–1969) made far more lasting and important contributions to the literature......
Filed In: Habitat, Hunt, People, Personalities, Quail, The Sporting Life
Dale Rollins figures he drove about a million miles in his career as an extension service biologist for the Texas A&M University system, what’s now called Texas AgriLife. Most of......
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Although he personally wrote two books of note on upland game hunting and edited two more, Eugene Virginius Connett (1891–1969) made far more lasting and important contributions to the literature......
Filed In: Memories, People, Sporting, Stories, The Sporting Life, Upland
Charley Dickey (1921-1998) was for many years one of America’s best known and most-loved sporting scribes. A generalist, he wrote on subjects ranging from deer hunting to trout fishing. However,......
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
It was the first weekend of February, the customary time for Paul and me to quail hunt with William on his farm in Early County, Georgia. All afternoon William had......
Filed In: Experience, Memory, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Between hunting seasons, I have time to catch up on all the tasks that come from hunting hard. I pass my time stitching my vests and shooting shirts; cleaning my......
