FILED IN: Stories
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: Memories, On the Hunt, Personality, Stories, The Sporting Life
I loaded the old pointer and was about to invite the adolescent sinner into the car. Rebel had behaved so badly on our last hunt that nothing he could do......
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: Culture, Dog, On the Hunt, Stories, The Sporting Life
Over my shoulder, I’m carrying a Browning over-and-under 2-gauge shotgun, walking a typical Western sagebrush draw with a dry creek bottom meandering through it. As I hunt alone with two......
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, 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, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
“Lady, whoa.” The German shorthair keened and quivered. She looked at each of us in turn to make sure we were ready. During the end of November, our group had......
