by Tom Keer | Dec 19, 2018
The pointer was facing me, and I could see that he was locked up tighter than a tick. His head was high, his tail set was ramrod straight, and there was no question there was a covey of quail under his nose. The birds were between him and me, and since it was my turn...
by Nash Buckingham | Dec 5, 2018
“Bob White” Shrill and clear, from thicket near, A song within the woodland ringing, A treble note from silver throat The siren of the fields is singing— “Bob White! Bob White!” And from the height, an answer sweet Floats gently o’er the rippling wheat— “Bob White!...
by Susan Ebert | Nov 29, 2018
From the November/December 2008 Woman’s Place column of Sporting Classics Magazine. Augusts full moon – the “dog days” moon relating to the rising of the Dog star Sirius – has a chorus of coyotes baying at the fringes of mv suburban neighborhood. My aging...
by Luke Clayton | Nov 28, 2018
Many of my non-duck hunting friends often inquire about what is so special about crawling out of bed way before the sun even thinks of spreading its golden rays, swigging down a couple of quick cups of coffee, then loading the duck boat with decoys, shotguns and all...
by Doug Painter | Nov 20, 2018
By two weeks into the season, I’m convinced that every pheasant in South Dakota has handily passed a Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) program worthy of any of our elite special operations units. These birds are sneaky smart by nature and, with their...
by Elijah Myrick | Nov 19, 2018
It is always a good sign when ducks are buzzing the decoys before the sun shows up. For my birthday this year, I could not think of a better place to be than hunkered down underneath flooded timber waiting on the birds to arrive. It has been a wet year in Central...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 16, 2018
RIDGEFIELD, Washington — From an ADA-accessible blind at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Sal Trujillo watched as the first rays of sun peeked above the surrounding hills. Flocks of mallards, pintails and tundra swans soon filled the sky. Trujillo and 10 other...
by Doug Painter | Nov 14, 2018
At first glance, it was a scene no different than one that is repeated many times each year throughout the Midwest: Six or so hunters in line working their way through the corn or milo while other hunters block at the end of the field. The shout of “rooster!” is heard...
by Tom Keer | Nov 9, 2018
There is a trickling effect of foreign ecollar legislation to American organizations. On August 27, 2018, Michael Gove, the British Environment Secretary, announced the intention to ban electric training collars for dogs in England. Gove follows the lead of other...
by Robert Sohrweide | Nov 7, 2018
When upland bird hunters think of Argentina, they dream of no-limit dove hunts. Waterfowlers on the other hand dream of South American duck and twenty five-bird limits — limits not seen in the United States since Nash Buckingham was a young man. I’d read Mr....
