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Filed In: Memories, People, Personality, Stories, The Sporting Life
Occasionally a writer comes along with a knack for putting into words aspects of the sporting experience that all hunters feel yet find difficult to describe or share with others.......
Filed In: Gun, People, Personality, Shooting, Stories, The Sporting Life
Lars Jacob is turkey hunting, everything he does revolves around shotgunning. He’s likely to be in the Covey & Nye gun shop in Manchester, Vt., searching for the exact gun......
Filed In: Hunter, Memories, People, Personality, Stories, The Sporting Life
Theophilus Nash Buckingham was, to use a once popular term, a gunnerman for the ages. Virtually all his long life was devoted to wingshooting and bird dogs, and the hallmark......
Filed In: Hunter, People, Personality, The Sporting Life
Archibald Rutledge was the 20th century’s most prolific sporing scribe. Known to family and friends as “Old Flintlock,” he was an internationally acclaimed poet, beloved teacher and author of cl...
Filed In: Culture, People, Personality, Stories, The Sporting Life
Totally exasperated, I pulled the truck to the side of the road, jumped out and checked my boots. “It’s got to be you, Vic,” I growled. “Get out and check......
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: Culture, People, Personality, Stories, The Sporting Life
Totally exasperated, I pulled the truck to the side of the road, jumped out and checked my boots. “It’s got to be you, Vic,” I growled. “Get out and check......
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
Old Dr. Foshee loved to bird hunt. He basically assumed the hunting rights in all the New Site area and wherever he could get in his Ford Model T or......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Memories, On the Hunt, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
In the vast annals of the quail hunting experience, possibly no story carries greater power and poignancy than Robert Ruark’s “But Not on Opening Day.” Originally published as one of......
Filed In: Dog, Habitat, Hunt, People, Pheasant, Quil, The Sporting Life
The town of Toppenish in the southern half of Washington takes its name from the Indian “Xuupinish,” which means “sloping and spreading.” You get a sense of its meaning in......
