FILED IN: The Sporting Life
Filed In: Hunt, Memories, On the Hunt, Quail, The Sporting Life
Cle-cle-cle. The sound was unmistakable—mountain quail. I hadn’t guessed I could find them this close to home. We saw their three-toed tracks in new-fallen snow. When we bounced a covey......
Filed In: Grouse, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life, Woodcock
On the Opening Day of the grouse and woodcock seasons, I am like a coiled spring. I wait for months on end until Father Time tick-tocks his way slowly through......
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.......
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: Chukar, hunting, Lodge, On the Hunt, Partridge, The Sporting Life, Travel
The first bird up was a chukar partridge and it skied rapidly and then cut left. The sweet-mounting and swinging Caesar Guerini 20-gauge loaner gun barked and the partridge folded.......
Filed In: Bird, Chukar, Hunt, hunting, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
The very name of the chukar evokes the sound of its call and the ache in my legs at the end of the day. Chuka-chuka-chuka. Idaho’s Salmon River is called......
Filed In: Bird, Experience, Hunt, Lodge, The Sporting Life, Travel
You know that feeling when everything is so perfect that your brain shuts down – stops thinking rational or coherent thoughts – and almost goes numb trying to focus all......
Filed In: Gun, History, International, Shoot, The Sporting Life
In 1956, a young German machinist named Horst Blaser set up a business to produce a hunting rifle. Although not a trained gun maker in the German tradition, Blaser had......
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......
