Heroic Efforts to Save Texas Quail May Soon Pay Off
With ample rainfall, healthy cover, and an abundance of quail in the summer of 2010, hunters in the Rolling Plains region of West Texas anticipated another bumper crop of their beloved birds the following season. Instead, the birds vanished, leaving biologists...
Hooray Ranch: A Wingshooting Spectacle
Come fall, mind-stretching numbers of ducks and geese descend on Hooray’s fields and ponds.
Wing-Shooting Scotland In October
Last October was a special month. I was in Scotland, and for two days I hunted red grouse in the moors near Inverness -- one day of driven birds and one day of walk-up. It was the trip of a lifetime with friends and family. Excitement rode beside us as we traveled...
Our Gobbler
I suppose that there are other things that make a hunter uneasy, but of one thing I am very sure: that is, to locate and to begin to stalk a deer or a turkey, only to find that another hunter is doing precisely the same thing at the same time. The feeling I had was...
Preserving Turkey Memories
A delightfully different approach.
My Shotgun is Quick
The barrels of my Roscoe felt smooth as a chorus girl’s ankle as I slid my hand over the cold steel.
Remembering Shooting-Flying: A Key West Letter
What is it about the sound of whirring wings that moves us more than any love of country? In this 1935 classic from Esquire, the legendary author shares his lifelong fascination with bird hunting the world over.
Diary of a Market Hunter
A real-life account of a market hunter’s day-to-day, warts and all.
The Twenty Minute Gobbler
In a robe, no less.
Lucky Thirteen
My eyes glanced toward 14-year old Trent, frozen in a wide-eyed stare with the gun across his lap!