FILED IN: Bird
Filed In: Bird, Culture, Destination, Dog, Experience, Horses, On the Hunt, Shooting
In search of wild birds and the Western frontier at Oregon’s Ruggs Ranch. ...What is guaranteed is a grand adventure, and an experience as close as it gets to capturing the spirit of the Western ...
Filed In: Bird, Experience, Gun, Hunt, On the Hunt, Sage Grouse
The dirt road took us 30 miles from the highway, around a mountain, through a large basin, and then up to a long, treeless plateau. A cloud of dust billowed......
Filed In: Bird, Dog, Hunt, Memories, Sporting, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…Cotton, an eight-year-old English setter, jumped out of the truck, hit the ground, and ran in a circle. A bit short for a setter, she was taller than a......
Filed In: Bird, Dog, Hunt, Memories, Sporting, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…I called home and told my wife Ruth I would take her to the Mexican place for lunch. It’s her favorite. I would be banking some “points” should a......
Filed In: Bird, Bobwhite, Dog, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…Cotton, an eight-year-old English setter, jumped out of the truck, hit the ground, and ran in a circle. A bit short for a setter, she was taller than a......
Filed In: Bird, Experience, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life, Woodcock
Recently it dawned on me what woodcock hunters are referring to when they talk about hunting their favorite coverts. As I understand it, a covert is a place that is......
Filed In: Bird, Francolin, Hunt, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
We leave scars on the land that never quite go away. Some change the land for better and some for worse. Farmers plow, plant, and build. Miners peel back the......
Filed In: Bird, Dog, Grouse, Hunt, On the Hunt, Prairie Chicken, The Sporting Life
Say “sharp-tailed grouse” to an old sodbuster and he’ll tip back his wear-stained, weathered, wide-brim Stetson, spit out a chew of Copenhagen, look you in the eye and then to......
Filed In: Bird, Conservation, Grouse, Habitat
In the first blush of a fine spring morning, Linda Baker, director of the Upper Green River Alliance, and I disembarked from her truck in Wyoming’s 7-million-acre Upper Green River......
Filed In: Bird, Culture, Experience, Lodge, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Bird Camp is an eagerly anticipated annual pilgrimage, now in its ninth year. The players have remained the same, except for Brian Fay (the Counselor), who dropped out after the......
