FILED IN: Experience
Filed In: Chukar, Dog, Experience, Partridge, Stories, The Sporting Life
We worked dogs for a very long time up a long, gradual slope to a position at the top of a rolling Oregon hill. From that elevated vantage point, I......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Lodge, The Sporting Life, Travel
We meet for lunch at Pine Creek Sporting Club, the exclusive hunting-and-shooting destination located in central Florida, equidistant to Orlando and south to Palm Beach. Professional-golf icon Nick Pr...
Filed In: Dog, Experience, Sporting, The Sporting Life
A dog you love should live as long as you do. How often now have I said this to myself since I began hunting over dogs? That was 59 years......
Filed In: Experience, Hunt, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Picture this: You’re working the edge of a hay field turned brown, cut months before in late summer. A lanky young German shorthaired pointer plunges in and out of the......
Filed In: Experience, The Sporting Life, Travel, Upland, Woodcock
At home on Cape Cod, late November is a time for reflection. That might be because the Pilgrims explored what is now our town center a few months before landing......
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: Bird, Experience, History, Pheasants, The Sporting Life
It all began in 1881, when ring-necked pheasants were introduced in North America. Over the next two decades they were liberated in 40 U.S. states. Mention pheasants to a bird......
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......
