The Rodney Dangerfield of Gamebirds
If I may indulge in the slightest understatement, I’ve been around a while. And I’ve seen a few things. Not as many as some, but more than most. I’ve been lucky enough to have gunned birds all over the world, and there aren’t a great many species that I haven’t hunted...
Why I Taught My Boys to be Hunters
It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. I have said that my hunting has often been solitary; but that was chiefly in the early days. During the last 25 years, I have rarely taken to the woods and fields in the shooting season...
Hunting is Like Work
I may need to charge overtime. Treats and a half, Mike! I wrote recently that fishing is like work, and I’m here to tell you that hunting is like real work. I have to climb mountains, trek down valleys, wade or swim across rivers and struggle and muscle my way through...
Why Some Game Is Mortified
Reasons Why Some Game Birds And Large Game Are “Mortified” In the state of society which we have now reached, it is difficult to imagine a race living solely on bread, vegetables and fruit. If such a nation existed, it would undoubtedly have been conquered...
Why I Bark – Cameron the Weim
Candid Cameron Just the other day I was riding down the road – Mike drives and chauffeurs me about, as it should be – and then I saw it. Another dog on a leash being led along the highway by a hooman. I instantly let out a few loud barks — never mind Mike’s ear was...
Blood Origins: A Non-Profit That Explores the Root of Why We Hunt
Blood Origins, a non-profit which strives to bridge a dialogue between hunters and non-hunters, was born from the simple yet deeply personal question: Why do I hunt? Robbie Kroger is a South African native now living in Mississippi with his family. His Blood Origins...
Is THIS Why Women Hunt?
Why would any 21st century woman want to hunt?
Why Fly Fishermen are Flocking to South America for Golden Dorado
Argentina’s vast Ibera Swamp is an other-worldly setting for one of the planet’s great game fish. Argentina’s seemingly endless Ibera Wetlands span some 7,000-square miles, the second largest marshland in the world, behind only Brazil’s great Pantanal. It is a...