The Etching
Great sporting art captures the memories you’ve made in the field.
Safety Tips for an Icy Waterfowl Season
With waterfowl hunting season in full swing, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is urging hunters to always handle guns safely and be careful in all situations. Waterfowl hunters who use watercraft must be especially careful. The tragic drowning of a young hunter in November...
A Chance of Frost
Deep within his soul, he needed the marsh and its ducks, perhaps now more than ever. “Come duck hunting with me." "What?" she asked as if she must have misheard him. "Come duck hunting with me." Now Terri was no foreigner to hunting. She enjoyed walking the grass...
Recipe for Grouse Pie
With bold herbs and spices and a delicate, flaky crust, this grouse recipe takes the classic pot pie we know and love to the next level. One of the few exceptions, this recipe has to be highly seasoned. Cold leftovers of grouse are delicately prepared in this method....
14 Key Tips for Game Cookery
If you are planning to include wild game recipes in your Thanksgiving menu this year, The Derrydale Game Cookbook offers a few tips to bring out the best flavors in your game meat. 1. An old guard of a game bird has no other place in cookery but to be used either for...
Feeling Guilty
It seems to add up that men and women, no matter what their age, who take a great deal of pleasure in the out-of-doors, at the very least discover something about themselves. The talk had turned in the dwindling hours of the early morning into the sort of conversation...
Russell Chatham’s Roasted Duck
The hill’s contour was pink with slanting light, so much like a Russell Chatham painting. I looked down at the large gray breast of the mallard and thought about the meal to come. I rounded a bend of a winding, western Montana creek, and the heads of two mallard...
Tips on Preparing Waterfowl for the Table
Excerpted from The Remington Cookbook, Jim Casada offers a few tips and tricks for preparing delectable duck and geese recipes. Do it Easy or Do it Right: Skinning versus Plucking Visit any waterfowl camp or sit with several buddies in a duck blind and sooner or later...
Want To Help The Environment? Then Start Cutting Trees.
One conservation organization warns aging forests could spell doom for many species. With forest fires raging across the West, there’s been a renewed call to reexamine our nation’s forest management policies. Nearly 46,000 wildfires have burned more than eight million...
Snow Days
I was thinking about the coming season a few days ago and, as usual, it occurred to me that I might have a chance or two to hunt in snow. It’s still hot in Georgia, but snow is coming. Dear Lord, do I love to hunt in snow! I guess it’s a little surprising to hear a...