Birds by the Clouds
This week on Sporting Classics TV… Among globe-trotting American bird hunters, Argentina is widely considered the best wingshooting destination on the planet. With doves, pigeons, ducks and perdiz, a partridge-like bird, it’s a magical mixed bag of game. This week on...
Wouldn’t It Be Great to Have a Permanent Puppy?
“Wouldn’t it be great?” Kjos said again, his blood up, completely dismissing the ducks, “To have a permanent puppy, to have first love over and over again?” The sun slept in that years-ago Utah morning over the Salt Lake marshes. Where Kjos and I were guests in an...
The North American “Amazon” You’ve Never Heard Of—And Why It’s In Peril
How the cradle of our continent’s bird life is being rocked When last September’s chilling news from Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology hit press wires reporting a decline of some three billion birds across North America since the 1970s, there was one...
Shooting the Beretta 690 Field I
Putting the new over-and-under through its paces on a wood duck hunt.
You Never Know What You Might Find
Connections made while hunting could open the door to the deal of a lifetime.
The Most Elaborate Duck Calls Ever Made
You’ve got to see them to believe them.
An Improbable Journey
Reuniting with a long-gone relative’s duck boat through an unlikely set of circumstances.
Carving Out a Duck Hunt
Tom Modin doesn’t see himself as much of an artist, but his hand-carved, hand-painted decoys say otherwise.