FILED IN: The Sporting Life
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: Gun, Handmade, History, Shooting, The Sporting Life
The chiming of Big Ben in London signaling the 2014 New Year also marked the beginning of a momentous celebration for all involved with storied gunmaker James Purdey & Sons......
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: 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: Culture, Experience, Lodge, The Sporting Life, Travel
We meet for lunch at Pine Creek Sporting Club, the exclusive hunting-and-shooting destination located in central Florida, equidistant to Orlando and south to Palm Beach. Professional-golf icon Nick Pr...
Filed In: Dog, Experience, Sporting, The Sporting Life
A dog you love should live as long as you do. How often now have I said this to myself since I began hunting over dogs? That was 59 years......
Filed In: Bird, Chukar, Hunt, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Up on top, in the saddle between the buttes, a 500-foot climb from the rocky two-track below, sits a rock. Plunked there by a volcano, created first in a cauldron......
Filed In: Experience, Hunt, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Picture this: You’re working the edge of a hay field turned brown, cut months before in late summer. A lanky young German shorthaired pointer plunges in and out of the......
Filed In: Experience, The Sporting Life, Travel, Upland, Woodcock
At home on Cape Cod, late November is a time for reflection. That might be because the Pilgrims explored what is now our town center a few months before landing......
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......
