Stuck in a Gundog Daze
Admiring good dog work is worth missing a bird or two.
Skills of Successful Wingshooting Guides
Being a hunting guide might seem like a dream job, one we would all like to have, but there is a tremendous gap between the dream and the reality. There is a famous anecdote, possibly apocryphal, about Fred Astaire’s first screen test for RKO Pictures. Apparently, the...
A Bucket-List Wingshooting Trip
This week on Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey… It’s a wingshooting bucket-list trip to two of the finest upland and waterfowl destinations in North America in this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey as Chris heads to South...
Cockers in Cover
The cocker: a breed that deploys quickly and steers precisely. I damn near didn’t stop. I was driving a road that I rarely traveled, en route to another piece of cover. It was a crisp, clear day toward the end of October, the kind of day you see in your mind’s eye...
Ruffed Grouse Covert
Once upon a time Bob Sohrweide had a ruffed grouse cover. He’d had other covers before and since but this one was his best. Bob found it in his eighth grade Latin class. Let me tell you… As Bob walked into his classroom, he overheard Robbie Trotta finishing a story to...
The U.K.’s Black Tie Event of Shooting
With the grouse moors covered in blooming heather, it’s once again time for the annual Sport of Kings: driven grouse shooting. With its abundance of heather and red grouse, Yorkshire’s undulating moors echo with gunfire each August as artfully engraved shotguns...
Hunting in the Shadows of Edmund Davis
At times I may think I am unique in my hunting approach, yet the reality is I am not. Like many, I follow in the shadows of Edmund Davis. The phone rang listing a number I did not recognize. I answered. “Tom Keer.” “I had the chair.” “Terrific,” I said. “It’s...
The Fall
Camp’s poem, “The Fall” was originally published in the October, 1897 issue of Outing. Now soon will come the summer’s angry strife With winter foes; and many a gloomy day. The sky, the battle-ground, where blue and gray Their struggle long since...
Among the Grouse
There is a special magic to be found in hunting this majestic bird with grouse dogs and good friends through a joyous palette of autumn colors. I never intended for grouse hunting to become such a passion. Only now, after more than 40 years of joyously stumbling about...