FILED IN: hunting
Filed In: Culture, hunting, Memories, On the Hunt, Personalities, The Sporting Life
The last Friday of September, after weeks of preparation and packing, the Burb and the late-1960s vintage and timeworn Bell travel trailer known as the Road Abode were ready for......
Filed In: Dog, hunting, Sporting, The Sporting Life
Deuce is big and brawny, with a coat so white it’s inaccurate to refer to him as a yellow Lab—he’s positively ghostly. When he’s hunting, not only is Deuce’s tail......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
English cocker spaniels hold a special place in my heart. Watching these handsome dogs hunt a field, quartering in their distinctive figure-eight pattern, is almost hypnotic. Like when you gaze......
Filed In: Chukar, hunting, Lodge, On the Hunt, Partridge, The Sporting Life, Travel
The first bird up was a chukar partridge and it skied rapidly and then cut left. The sweet-mounting and swinging Caesar Guerini 20-gauge loaner gun barked and the partridge folded.......
Filed In: Bird, Chukar, Hunt, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
The very name of the chukar evokes the sound of its call and the ache in my legs at the end of the day. Chuka-chuka-chuka. Idaho’s Salmon River is called......
Filed In: Dog, Hunt, hunting, The Sporting Life
It can happen at any time, whether moments out of the truck at the start of the new day or at the end of it all, tired, footsore and cold.......
Filed In: Culture, hunting, Lodge, People, The Sporting Life
Roberts County lies in the northeast part of the Texas panhandle, its 924 square miles of high, lonesome emptiness occupied by fewer than 1,000 hardy and independent souls. Some of......
Filed In: Bird, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
It was willow ptarmigan that did it… …The plane spit us out on the edge of Heart Lake, so named on our first approach because – well, hell – it......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
A gun dog in every sense of the word, the Llewellin Setter is the perfect companion for quail hunting. It is a dog that craves and needs the outdoors, but......
Filed In: hunting, On the Hunt, People, Quail, The Sporting Life, Travel
There is a notion across North America that good bobwhite quail hunting is gone for the average bird hunter. I disagree. For the past 25 years, I have focused my......
