Field-hunting geese from a pit blind represents the epitome of waterfowling. Each gust of wind brought the smell of freshly spread cow manure from the cut cornfield below. The maize had been harvested in the fall, and the ducks, geese, turkey and whitetails devoured...
Deep within his soul, he needed the marsh and its ducks, perhaps now more than ever. “Come duck hunting with me.” “What?” she asked as if she must have misheard him. “Come duck hunting with me.” Now Terri was no foreigner to hunting. She...
With bold herbs and spices and a delicate, flaky crust, this grouse recipe takes the classic pot pie we know and love to the next level. One of the few exceptions, this recipe has to be highly seasoned. Cold leftovers of grouse are delicately prepared in this method....
If you are planning to include wild game recipes in your Thanksgiving menu this year, The Derrydale Game Cookbook offers a few tips to bring out the best flavors in your game meat. 1. An old guard of a game bird has no other place in cookery but to be used either for...
It seems to add up that men and women, no matter what their age, who take a great deal of pleasure in the out-of-doors, at the very least discover something about themselves. The talk had turned in the dwindling hours of the early morning into the sort of conversation...
I felt the shockwave through my feet before I heard the thunderclap explosion. Mud flew, water ran and two days later, I had a new pond. Brothers and Sisters, I am a water witch. Water witching, dousing, doodle-bugging— call it what you will, finding unseen things...
Last November in Scotland, a line of seven friends spaced 20 yards apart marched across a harvested field in pursuit of pheasant. On that misty morning, hunters, dogs and gamekeepers were eager to find birds and almost immediately they did. A brightly feathered...
The hill’s contour was pink with slanting light, so much like a Russell Chatham painting. I looked down at the large gray breast of the mallard and thought about the meal to come. I rounded a bend of a winding, western Montana creek, and the heads of two mallard...
Excerpted from The Remington Cookbook, Jim Casada offers a few tips and tricks for preparing delectable duck and geese recipes. Do it Easy or Do it Right: Skinning versus Plucking Visit any waterfowl camp or sit with several buddies in a duck blind and sooner or later...
One conservation organization warns aging forests could spell doom for many species. With forest fires raging across the West, there’s been a renewed call to reexamine our nation’s forest management policies. Nearly 46,000 wildfires have burned more than eight million...
