ELLIOTT COUES: Surgeon, Naturalist, Hunter And His Deer

ELLIOTT COUES: Surgeon, Naturalist, Hunter And His Deer

Many of you may have heard Coues deer or the name Elliott Coues mispronounced as coos, cooz, cooeys or something else other than properly as “cows,” as in “wait ’til the cows come home.”  Here in Arizona, he is known as the namesake of the diminutive but highly prized...
Guide To Getting Fishing Permission

Guide To Getting Fishing Permission

Before you go “popping the question” and asking for fishing permission, there are a few things you should know. Contrary to the small-town rumor mill, I did not enter into holy matrimony with my bride solely to gain access to her daddy’s prized fishing pond. But it is...
Ramsey Family Knives

Ramsey Family Knives

One late autumn day in 1956, Robert Dewey Ramsey, Jr. was a young man doing what he loved to do, hunting deer in the wilderness of backwoods Tennessee. The hunt was successful that day, and Robert came back from the woods with his deer. Later, he had the...
Land of Giant Whitetails

Land of Giant Whitetails

Hunting giant whitetails in an enclosure had never held any appeal for me. Over the past 50 years, I’d chased free-range deer with gun, bow and camera, and I had no intention of changing that. Chuck, the editor at Sporting Classics, knew of my distaste for high-fence...
5 Times To Be Worried About Sick-Looking Deer

5 Times To Be Worried About Sick-Looking Deer

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division, recently distributed information important to deer hunters on diseases they may encounter in deer and how to recognize sick-looking deer. While the Division reported that, to date, neither...
Fishing Scotland

Fishing Scotland

Mention salmon and grouse in the same breath and hunting and fishing Scotland instantly comes to mind. Gentlemen in snap brim hats, Norfolk shooting jackets, plus fours and wellies to the knees, best gun poised with loader at the ready, their eyes searching the brow...
The Last Days of Ben Lilly

The Last Days of Ben Lilly

After the presidential bear hunt, Lilly went back to Texas and soon drifted across the border into Mexico, continuing his pursuit of black bears and cougars with a vengeance. He gained even more renown hunting the few remaining grizzlies in the Sierra Madre Mountains...
Missouri Quail And Pheasant Numbers Steady

Missouri Quail And Pheasant Numbers Steady

With Missouri quail and pheasant hunting season starting Nov. 1, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) advises hunters that quail and pheasant production appears better than expected despite harsh conditions last winter and flooding this spring. Each August,...
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