Choice of the Litter

Choice of the Litter

It was to him a very simple thing and the wonder was that the others, the older ones, were so stupid and confused. It was only a matter of going back a few years to when he was ten and her age, and thinking as he had thought then.  The old urges and desires and faiths...
Fallow

Fallow

“What two species of deer do you think have been introduced to more continents than any other?” Asked Scandinavian Prohunter’s Stefan Bengtsson. “Hmmmm…it would have to be either red deer or fallow deer based on my personal experience. I’ve hunted introduced red stag...
Where the Clouds Are Birds

Where the Clouds Are Birds

I think I know what Otis Redding had on his mind when he crooned “Sittin’ on the dock of a bay.” Only there’s no dock here. There’s no bay either, but I’m sitting on a high bluff overlooking the Parana River in Argentina, takin’ the rest of the day off.  Mi amigos...
Setters and Pointers in Advertising

Setters and Pointers in Advertising

“It was the time when hunting and fishing were as popular as video games and reality television shows are today. Let’s have a look at a few from the past 100 years.”

Taking the Sacred Beast

Taking the Sacred Beast

He caught a glimpse of something white among the herd, its body illuminated by the setting sun–he recognized the animal as an extremely rare white bison. The fall was changing into winter and the buffalo hunters were getting ready for the huge herds to gather on the...
Man-Killing Cougar

Man-Killing Cougar

It was a cold, dull and dreary day, the 17th of December 1924, with the thermometer hovering around zero in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains of Okanogan County, Washington, when a man-eating cougar killed and devoured a 13-year-old boy. Reports from all over the...
The Magic Quarter

The Magic Quarter

“Son, I’ve got something for ya,” said the grizzled hunter, poking our late November campfire and sending ember offerings and prayers to the Man Upstairs. I had known my friend ever since I was a tyke, and I always called him Uncle John, even though he was not among...