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 close to three score books. He also came with a single vote of winning both the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1949.

He resurrected the faded glory of South Carolina’s Hampton Plantation on the Santee River ,with its rich history tracing back to a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a U.S. Supreme Court justice and a visit by President George Washington. The effort is described in his best-known work, Home by the River. Most of all, though, he was a hunter for the ages.

Often remembered for tales of deer and turkey hunting, he was also an avid wingshooter…