November Was Always the Best
“I like November best,” the Old Man used to say, “because it reminds me of me.” A heartwarming remembrance from Ruark’s classic, The Old Man and the Boy. A lot of people figure November to be a middling sad kind of month, with the trees showing naked against the...
Down On the Border: Mearns’ Quail
I’d been following my Brittany, Tess, through the steep, rocky canyons of southeastern Arizona’s Coronado National Forest for the better part of an hour when her bell fell silent. I found her upslope—bug-eyed, trembling and stretched out on point—at the base of a live...
Country Singer Caught Being Country. Activists Demand Answers
Ella Langley has committed an unforgivable celebrity offense: being the person she sings about. Old photographs of the country star hunting deer, including with her father, have resurfaced, and the internet’s Department of Recreational Misery has opened an...
True Blue
Grandma’s farm consisted of five acres, mostly wooded except for a half-acre garden loaded with berries and vegetables. Out back stood a shed stuffed with old rakes and spades and other hand tools. Mason jars were scattered among bushel and berry baskets filled with...
Keeping Things Wild
There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot . . . This is a story for those who cannot. In 1927 Crazy Ernie, Kid Al and my dad won a hunting shack in a poker game and lost their hearts to a swamp. In a remote northwoods clearing stood a...
Dorsey Pictures Returns to Colorado’s Fight to Protect Hunting and Fishing
DENVER, CO — Dorsey Pictures is back in the fight to help protect hunting and fishing in Colorado, and has developed an advertising campaign supporting Colorado’s Amendment 83 including four :30 commercials The One Right They Missed, The Signs, Keep the Crazies Out of...
In The Court Of The Ruffed Grouse King
In the pine barren, the pasture’s edge, the orchard, this is his court . . . and we are honored to be there. In an orchard, long abandoned, we make our way toward a solitary tree, one of few bearing apples this fall. That it has fruit at all strikes me as promising...
The Great Buffalo Con Job
“The Cape buffalo has a well-earned reputation for being able to absorb a magazine full of thumb-sized bullets and still have enough meanness left to grind his adversary into the ground.”
Whiskey and Palaver at the Dying of the Sun
Moses threw another load of sticks upon the coals. The fire crackled, sparks flew and smoke rolled. Zambia, in the valley of the Great Zambezi. Out on the sandbars, hippos were grunting up dates, a-hunka-hunka-hunka. A leopard coughed in the gathering dark and the...
Mamba Mayhem
Deep in the wilds of Africa, dealing with a deadly snake in your camp latrine can be a messy proposition. One of the most terrifying encounters I have ever had with a dangerous snake took place on an early October morning in Zambia, on the Munyamadzi River. It had...