FILED IN: Stories
Filed In: Dog, Experience, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life
At the top of the field, a farmer was baling his final cut of hay for the season. The sweet smell of cut and drying hay filled the hot, humid......
Filed In: Memories, People, Sporting, Stories, The Sporting Life, Upland
Charley Dickey (1921-1998) was for many years one of America’s best known and most-loved sporting scribes. A generalist, he wrote on subjects ranging from deer hunting to trout fishing. However,......
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: Culture, Experience, Memories, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life
Again I travel east, over a blue highway passing through big, open grasslands that stretch for miles. To my left, the mixed grass prairie extends north through much of the......
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: 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: Culture, Gun, History, Stories, The Sporting Life
In 1948, a young Italian gunmaker man named Stefano Fausti stood at his workbench, picked up his files, and started a company. For most people, the time wouldnot have seemed......
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: 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.......