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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......
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: 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: Culture, Dog, Experience, Hunt, People, The Sporting Life
The Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival has become one of the largest and most recognized wildlife-arts exhibitions in the country. But it is not just the show itself that brings people......
