FILED IN: Experience
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Lodge, The Sporting Life, Travel
At the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, Chef Scott Ostrander conjures quality at the Red Stag Grill. An excerpt…The locavore tradition in western North Carolina dates back to......
Filed In: Dog, Experience, On the Hunt, Sporting, The Sporting Life
I’m in my hunting-gear and kennel building lacing up my boots with mother, Petunia, daughter, Merri-Merri—both Brittanys—and Misty, a sleek little English pointer. The three are hurrying me alon...
Filed In: Culture, Experience, People, The Sporting Life
“People enjoy participating in sports they love, and golf lines up with sporting clays. But who needs another golf tournament? Fifteen years ago we found something different with sporting clays,......
Filed In: Cigar, Experience, Toasting the Hunt
Lighting a cigar is the final step in the preparation ritual, but it entails more than simply bringing a fl_ame to the foot of the cigar. Much like the cutting......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, The Sporting Life, Travel
About 90 miles northeast of Dallas as the waterfowl fly, on the outskirts of the sleepy town of Sulphur Bluff, Texas, you’ll find the Hageman Reserve—a 14,000-acre private sporting club......
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: Culture, Dog, Experience, On the Hunt, Sporting, The Sporting Life
Beginnings and endings, beginnings and endings—these are all most folks remember in life. You remember your first day on the job, for example—when new colleagues giggled because you wound up......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, Memories, Stories, The Sporting Life
I wrote a book about my Brittany named Winston and our travels together and how he pointed all of North America’s 18 major upland birds, from Alaska to Mexico. My......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, International, The Sporting Life, Travel
Every aspect of a visit to Guayascate is designed to ensure that hunting parties are delivered the ultimate in wingshooting opulence—even the dramatic setting differentiates this remote Argentinean ...
Filed In: Culture, Experience, International, The Sporting Life, Travel
Having experienced firsthand the fabulous Guayascate Lodge, I continued my Argentinean sporting odyssey to La Porteñita, a working estancia not far from the dove fields of Guayascate. Situated at the...
