FILED IN: The Sporting Life
Filed In: Craft, Culture, Gun, History, The Sporting Life
The Connecticut River Valley is the historic “gun valley” of America’s early industrial development in the heart of Yankee country, home to some of the great names in American shotguns.......
Filed In: Destination, Dog, Gun, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life, Travel
On the ground next to my spent 20-gauge hull was a shard of coal. It wasn’t a large piece, but its depth of blackness stood out so prominently amongst the......
Filed In: Culture, Gun, Handmade, History, The Sporting Life
AYA is the most famous name in Spanish guns. Like Holland & Holland in England, it is the quality standard against which others are measured. The problem for any writer......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, History, The Sporting Life
Outside the First Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg, South Carolina, sometime around 1905, a small spaniel-type dog was noticed by banker Alexander L. White after Sunday services. White adopted the d...
Filed In: Culture, Experience, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…This past October, I visited my friend Morris Baker at his company in Pennsylvania, RST/Classic Shotshell Company. We were discussing writing and sporting art and shotguns and bird dogs.....
Filed In: Dog, Hunt, Sporing, The Sporting Life
The scenting ability of golden retrievers has been called the best among retriever breeds so often that the term “golden nose” was coined to champion their gift. Golden owner and......
Filed In: Hunt, hunting, International, Partridge, Shooting, The Sporting Life, Travel
It has been said the people of Yorkshire, England, consider themselves apart from the rest of the country. A remarkable topography and a distinct dialect certainly contribute to this impression,......
Filed In: Dog, Experience, Hunt, Memories, Sporting, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…The young pointer quartered into the wind, his gait as effortless and graceful as a whitetail buck’s, his tail a high-waving baton. His black-on-white coat gleamed; his rippling muscles...
Filed In: Memories, People, Personalities, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…September, 45 years ago in the town of Twenty Mile in Powder Basin County (okay, not its real name), and I’m standing on an unpainted, planked floor, facing the......
Filed In: Bird, Dog, Hunt, Memories, Sporting, Stories, The Sporting Life
An excerpt…Cotton, an eight-year-old English setter, jumped out of the truck, hit the ground, and ran in a circle. A bit short for a setter, she was taller than a......
