How to Preserve a Grouse Fan
Preserving the fan is a cost-effective way to commemorate the hunt for years to come. Here are six steps to creating a grouse fan display. A ruffed grouse fan achieves the practical beauty that the woods demand. This barred rutter allows the bird to swerve through the...
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
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...
A Covey of Wild Memories
For a “sporting artist” could there be a name more fitting than Bob White? I will answer the question for you. Obviously, the correct response is: “No, there could not.” It isn’t as if this modern fine art painter and illustrator who lives near the St. Croix River in...
The Day the Duck Hunters Died
Nothing escaped the “winds of hell” and the deadly, suffocating snows that swept across the Upper Midwest on that fateful day in 1940.
Bird Hunting in NILO Land
John M. Taylor talks bird hunting in the quiet little town, and best kept secret, of Shawntee, Illinois. This is NILO Land. Think of Illinois and Chicago comes to mind, but the real history of the state lies 300-odd miles to the south. At the confluence of the Wabash...
Not the Fool Hen Blues
Dusky grouse have a curious way of making a living. They migrate come winter, but not the direction we might think. There is a bird migration underway right now, but it is not what you may think. It’s late August. National Shooting Sports month is coming to a close....
Beefy Quail and Fried Crappie
Wild game recipes from Sporting Classics’ Jim Casada.
