Good News, Bad News & the Gray Ghost

Good News, Bad News & the Gray Ghost

It was 1998 and my wife’s uncle had received exclusive permission from a farmer’s widow to hunt a hundred or more acres of farmland bordered by swamp and hardwood forest in Duplin County, North Carolina.  He’d hunted the land since opening day, and for most of that...
An Excerpt From: In The Land Of The Lakota

An Excerpt From: In The Land Of The Lakota

Mike Jr. was going for a whitetail he’d been after for a couple of years. He was hoping to climb up a certain tree stand close to the buck’s travel corridor. But the shifting wind changed all that. “There was actually one deer in there that was bigger than that one,”...
Rattlesnakes Among Friends

Rattlesnakes Among Friends

“You boys got to keep your eyes peeled for those diamondbacks,” Pierre said. He was butchering fish by the light of a Coleman, flounder fresh from the creek. “This time of year, they lookin’ for anything warm. Crawl right in your sleeping bag.” Pierre was fixing to...
Carson Wentz: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

Carson Wentz: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

There are many reasons for sportsmen to place North Dakota on their bucket list. The entire state, or about 90 percent of the territory, is home to large ranches and moderate-sized farms. Agriculture is king in a vast swath of land that stretches from the flat Red...
August 26 is National Dog Day

August 26 is National Dog Day

A hunter’s best friend has its own special day. National Dog Day was founded in 2004 by pet and family lifestyle expert, Colleen Paige, to celebrate all dogs — mixed breed and pure.  Whether it’s a true working dog or your “field & couch”...

Eukanuba Celebrates 50th Birthday

The year was 1969, and headlines were ablaze with Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk, Woodstock and, alas, bell-bottomed trousers. Meanwhile, Paul Iams founded a premium dog food company that he named Eukanuba. Competitors wondered, “Who in their right mind would double...
Slow is Smooth. Smooth is Fast.

Slow is Smooth. Smooth is Fast.

A while back, I was quail hunting with a young friend who was struggling mightily with the little brown bullets. We were finding plenty of bobwhites in the piney woods of South Georgia, but my pal just couldn’t seem to get the hang of it. It wasn’t that he was a bad...
Dan’s 12 Quail Hunting Tips

Dan’s 12 Quail Hunting Tips

These practical quail hunting tips are excerpted from the article “Dan,” by Bud Temple that originally appeared in the June 2019 issue of Sporting Classics magazine. I had frequently stopped at the little crossroads restaurant 16 miles north of my home in Wabash,...
The Wind Blows

The Wind Blows

It was at my family’s annual campout during Oklahoma’s black powder season one year that I developed my disdain for the cold. The air mattress I’d been sharing with my oldest brother sprung a leak in the night and when we woke up he was practically on top of me. “Hey,...