The Phantom Setter
Originally published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1961, this story is one of the finest ever written about gundogs and grouse hunting. It is certainly the most chilling.
First Season Expectations
SPONSORED CONTENT: You’ve built up to your pup’s first hunting season — but what should you expect from your young dog? The experts weigh in. Every sporting dog owner has high expectations for their dog. Social media is flooded with beautiful images of dogs on point...
Night Sweats
It is important for a man to do a thing well, even if it is killing. The honor of a feat is the measure of how you do it…And what was the truth of me? To hell with Bob Ruark. To blazes with Hemingway, Capstick, Percival, Boddington, the whole and bunch of them....
The Trespasser
“That’s a very sad story,” said Austin. “It gets worse,” said Ray. Passing through the ranch gate and driving down the tree-lined gravel lane toward the log house seemed like going back in time. The little English setter, asleep in the...
The Branding Iron
When their production lines weren’t manufacturing firearms, many gun companies turned to making a wide range of household items.
Gear for Birdhunters
Happy opening day of dove season, America. Across the country, millions of bird hunters celebrate this unofficial holiday of sorts by heading to sunflower patches, milo fields and watering holes to test their wingshooting skills on one of the hunting world’s toughest...
Preseason Training Tips from the Pros
Eukanuba Pro Trainers share key preseason training tips to help get your dogs prepped and ready for Opening Day and the autumn trial season. SPONSORED CONTENT Opening Day is coming in low and hot, and so is the autumn trial season. Pro trainers “plan their work and...
Raymond Harris-Ching Thrilled By the Sight
Harris-Ching is one of the handful of artists who advanced the position of wildlife painting into a serious artistic genre. The ground is tinder dry, the air is suffocating — infuriatingly unlike air — more like the fug under a woolen blanket. Under the midday sun,...
When Nearly Everyone Was a Hunter
There was an era in which Main Street, Hollywood, and pro athletes all came together in the gamefields of America. Will it ever come again?
