Lessons Handed Down to a Son – The Borrowed Gun

Lessons Handed Down to a Son – The Borrowed Gun

Peter Ryan on lessons handed down to a son. Our son, Jamie, is 10 years old. Today, after much pleading, he is with me at a cabin on the South Island of New Zealand, a long way from anywhere. There at the head of the valley the snow looms high overhead, waterfalls...
Buffalo Hunt – A Tale of Two Buffs

Buffalo Hunt – A Tale of Two Buffs

James Stejskal details two occasions across the world where he is on the buffalo hunt and just how he went about claiming his prize. The early morning fog on the river was starting to dissipate as I stood in the waist high grass surveying the terrain ahead. I was...
Mayan Ruins – Campeche Brocket

Mayan Ruins – Campeche Brocket

It was hot. Horribly hot. Well over the century mark. Humidity approached the saturation point. I hate the heat! I have even less tolerance for high humidity! But there I was in the midst of both! The only stirred breeze came from the overhead slow circulating fan in...
Old Flintlock: A Sporting Scribe for the Ages

Old Flintlock: A Sporting Scribe for the Ages

No writer has sung the South’s sporting song with the same alluring sweetness as Archibald Hamilton Rutledge. Known to family and friends as “Old Flintlock,” he was a proud son of the southern soil with roots that reached deep into the Carolina Lowcountry’s past. His...
Hunting of Old – Lonely Journey Backward

Hunting of Old – Lonely Journey Backward

Tony Kinton details the ups and downs, reliefs and frustrations and the total fulfilment of experience that comes with the hunting of old. Obstinacy is considered poor taste. But fracturing protocol and proper behavior were not my intent. Rather, I was simply curious...
Chris Dorsey on Hunting Matters Podcast

Chris Dorsey on Hunting Matters Podcast

Dorsey Pictures announces that Chris Dorsey appears as a guest in the latest episode of the Hunting Matters podcast and radio show to discuss myriad topics including his background in outdoor television, bringing the hunting category to mainstream audiences, and...
When Wildness Goes Bold

When Wildness Goes Bold

In any great wildlife painting, viewers do not just feel the spirit of an animal, we’re making contact with the mind’s eye of a brilliant artist. Julie T. Chapman, in her acclaimed multi-media scenes and monochromatic scratchboards, demonstrates how a single image can...
Scenes from the Wild North

Scenes from the Wild North

Why do hunters seldom put antlers of average score on the wall? An absurd question, certainly, for readers of this great magazine. And yet while the reasons seem obvious, let’s apply the same rationale to works of fine art we collect. Why settle for paintings and...
The Ghost of Camelot Ridge

The Ghost of Camelot Ridge

Every so often, it occurs to me that I am, without question, one of the luckiest guys in the world.  It’s a brash statement, no doubt, and I hope that it doesn’t come off as bragging, because that’s not how I mean it. To me, it just means that I understand, and that...