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Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
It was the first weekend of February, the customary time for Paul and me to quail hunt with William on his farm in Early County, Georgia. All afternoon William had......
Filed In: Experience, Memory, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
Between hunting seasons, I have time to catch up on all the tasks that come from hunting hard. I pass my time stitching my vests and shooting shirts; cleaning my......
Filed In: Bird, Conservation, Dog, Habitat, On the Hunt, People, The Sporting Life
Herbert Stoddard, author of The Bobwhite Quail: its Habits, Preservation, and Increase, wrote in the 1950s: “The bobwhite might probably be called the Fire Bird.” If ever there was a......
Filed In: Culture, On the Hunt, People, Personalities, The Sporting Life
The best bird hunt I can remember…? How could I pick one day above all the rest? It would be like saying one covey rise was the best one, better......
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: 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......
Filed In: Dog, Kennel, People, The Sporting Life
Epiphanies are confounding. You never know you’re going to have one, right up until the moment you do. They can’t be summoned, predicted, or carefully constructed from the sturdy building......
Filed In: Hunter, Memories, People, Personalities, Shooting, Stories, The Sporting Life
Ask Ben O. Williams and he will tell you that the wingshooting season does not start on opening day. Indeed, bird hunting is a year-round endeavor in the Williams household.......
Filed In: Dog, Memories, People, Personality, Story, The Sporting Life
Rummaging in my hunting cabinet the other day, I came across a sheep bell. It is the one my dad used last century to keep up with his wide-ranging dogs.......
