Nothing To Do for Three Weeks
He was a pine knot millionaire—hunting partridge on the tote roads and ducks on the lake, catching big crappies and trout in the rivers, gathering blueberries for food and pine knots for the fire, all work fit for a king. I left long before daylight, alone but not...
Down in the Bend With Riley
The eloquent writings of Nash Buckingham (1880-1971) were relatively unknown until Derrydale Press published several of his books in the 1930s. But “Mr. Buck,” as he came to be known to his legions of devoted readers, had been writing magazine articles for years. This...
The Sport of Kings on the Yorkshire Moors
The incomparable electricity of driven grouse. Some sporting destinations allow success to be manufactured to some degree. Pheasants and red-legged partridges can be reared and released. Fish can be stocked. Habitat can be improved, predators controlled, and...
Sporting Classics TV Season 8 Episode 6 Trailer
Make sure to catch this week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, featuring a bird hunter's paradise as Chris Dorsey and Dominico Orzi visit Uruguay’s stunning Estancia Santa Elena. The series airs on Outdoor Channel on Monday at 12pm, Wednesday at 6am,...
Culmination
Ancient walls of huge, dry-stacked, weather-worn boulders hint at a distant past and parallel us as we travel through crisp morning air along a sandy, sun-dappled road toward our shooting pegs. They look European. Beyond the stone walls, giant hardwoods rise over the...
North Dakota’s Camo Party Has 300,000 Members. Now It Needs a Senator Who Can Count.
Kevin Cramer is threatening to gum up the federal government because compensated wetland easements are still being treated like contracts. The ducks, hunters and arithmetic would like a word. North Dakota is one of those rare places where a political movement could be...
Sporting Classics TV Season 8 Episode 4 Trailer
Make sure you don't miss this week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, for a gorgeous quail hunt in the South Carolina Lowcountry while supporting American heroes. The series airs on Outdoor Channel on Monday at 12pm, Wednesday at 6am, Thursday at 6pm...
Woodcock Shooting on the Upper Mississippi
In few places has there ever been woodcock shooting that for certainty of finding the birds and ease in following them equaled the sport of the bottom lands of the upper Mississippi River 20 years ago. Scarcely any of the resident sportsmen then troubled this charming...
Hunting With a Mission on Kodiak Island
Mark, Richard and I dangle from toes and fingers on a steep slope 2,100 feet above the surf. We’ve finally broken out of the claustrophobic alder thickets, and behind us the view is spectacular—the islands of the Kodiak archipelago rise green and brown and black from...
Congratulations, New Hunter—Here Is Your 194-Page Criminal-Exposure Manual
America’s wildlife agencies have spent years developing an ambitious program called R3—Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation—designed to persuade more ordinary citizens to hunt and fish. The theory is that agencies should recruit newcomers, retain current sportsmen...