by Robert Ruark | Jul 29, 2024
Of all the African big game animals, Chui the leopard is the most beautiful and exotic – even in death.
by Robert Ruark | Mar 25, 2024
When the Tin Liz breaks down five miles from home, the Old Man and the Boy discover a new way of bird-hunting. A classic from the September, 1956 issue of Field & Stream.
by Robert Ruark | Mar 1, 2024
“The only way to handle weather,” said the Old man, “is to know what to do with it – and use it accordingly”
by Robert Ruark | Dec 1, 2023
It was about 5:15 p.m., 108 miles northeast of Oran, I remember, when the starboard gunners shouted, ‘’Torpedo off the bow!” The helmsman tried to swing her so the thing would run parallel to us, but the old bucket was bottom-heavy with about 9,000 tons of high...
by Robert Ruark | Sep 18, 2023
“I promise you,” he said, “on my word of honor, I won’t die on the opening day of the bird season.” Now you know your first big cock pheasant is a sight to see. There maybe ain’t nothing as dramatic, whether it’s an elephant...
by Robert Ruark | Jul 26, 2023
I do not mean to sound bitter about this, for perhaps it is not the fault of the wet-eared young… This piece is being written in a bug-ridden swamp on the banks of the sluggish yellow Tana River, in northeastern Kenya, where the big elephants bugle and the...