End of Bird Hunting Season

The end is near! OK, don’t panic hoomans, but the end of bird hunting seasons are near in some areas of America. My plans are to make a few more jaunts for grouse in the high country before snows up there reach waist-high depths. It will be cold in the high country,...

Winter Goose Hunt, Just Perfect

It was December, and the goose season in New York’s Duchess County had three more weeks to run. This is a winter goose hunt from long ago, where an unexpected hunting partner joined me — after all other companions fell through. In this Yuletide season, we remember...

Argentina Big Game – Beautifully Weird

On a mixed-bag Argentina big game hunt, the author experiences an entirely new continent and its game.  It was evident when I met Gaucho the houndsman that he either did not speak English or didn’t choose to around me. When I shook his hand after my hunting guide and...

Best Little Aoudad Hunt, Texas

Wild sheep and sheep country have inspired a rich tradition of longing, struggle and adventure, perhaps a richer tapestry of hunting lore and literature. Some of it even true. Bighorns. Dall’s. Stone’s. Desert. Argalis. Snow sheep. These are the regal rams of fevered...

Something for the First Time

A fella posed a question the other day that caused me pause...  He asked, “When’s the last time you did something for the first time?”  Not when’s the last time you did something again for the first time in a long time. But the last time you did something for...

Some Pretty Good Dogs – Scott Linden

There are plenty of canine rock stars, field trial money-makers, legendary bird dogs memorialized in literature, magazine stories and on hall of fame walls. But I’m a man of simple tastes, so those dogs that do yeoman’s duty are the ones that nudge their way into my...