Woodcock Shooting on the Upper Mississippi

Woodcock Shooting on the Upper Mississippi

In few places has there ever been woodcock shooting that for certainty of finding the birds and ease in following them equaled the sport of the bottom lands of the upper Mississippi River 20 years ago. Scarcely any of the resident sportsmen then troubled this charming...
Hunting With a Mission on Kodiak Island

Hunting With a Mission on Kodiak Island

Mark, Richard and I dangle from toes and fingers on a steep slope 2,100 feet above the surf. We’ve finally broken out of the claustrophobic alder thickets, and behind us the view is spectacular—the islands of the Kodiak archipelago rise green and brown and black from...
Chasing Chesapeake Rail

Chasing Chesapeake Rail

Looking for a different kind of bird hunt this fall? If so, a clapper rail hunt—an interesting hybrid of upland and waterfowl hunting—in the coastal waters of Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay may be the answer. Though not as popular as it once was, chasing these shorebirds...
Sporting Classics TV Season 8 Episode 3 Trailer

Sporting Classics TV Season 8 Episode 3 Trailer

Make sure you don’t miss this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, as we visit a bucket-list destination for bird hunters for an epic quail hunt at South Carolina’s Almost Heaven Plantation. The series airs on Outdoor Channel on Monday at...
Sporting Classics TV Season 8 Episode 2 Trailer

Sporting Classics TV Season 8 Episode 2 Trailer

Make sure to catch this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, a celebration of hunter-funded conservation as three outdoorsmen meet for waterfowl and upland birds in Idaho. The series airs on Outdoor Channel on Monday at 12pm, Wednesday at 6am,...
The Thing About Doves

The Thing About Doves

The long pull uphill meant standing on both the bicycle pedals pumping for all I was worth. Sweat rolled down my face to top out as our small town faded away behind me. At the top stood an old abandoned almond orchard, or what was left of one. Scraggily trees with...
Neglected Birds

Neglected Birds

Responses vary greatly when someone hears the unexpected. There may be a blank stare or emphatic sigh or even a look of mild alarm.  There may be the sudden gasp accentuated with a rhetorical, “Really?” This is not so much a question as it is spontaneous disbelief. Or...