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Breeding Season

For several years, I helped out on a hunting preserve that offered several species of gamebirds, including pheasants. Depending on the time of year, the pens held anywhere from 200…

Rising Out of the Ashes

Herbert Stoddard, author of The Bobwhite Quail: its Habits, Preservation, and Increase, wrote in the 1950s: “The bobwhite might probably be called the Fire Bird.” If ever there was a…

Chukar at Crazy Man Rock

Up on top, in the saddle between the buttes, a 500-foot climb from the rocky two-track below, sits a rock. Plunked there by a volcano, created first in a cauldron…

Remote Ruffed Grouse

To me, “remote” was an abstraction, a vague idea of distance and expanse and low probability. Until I found it on a map. Remote, Oregon, doesn’t pass for much of…

Final Flights

At this time of year, I always wonder when I’ll get my last woodcock point of the year. Which dog will be the one to lock up on the point…

Fencerow Hunting

It was a long way to the end of the fencerow, and plantar fasciitis was killing me. Each step felt like a spear was being jammed into the bottom of…

Colorful Coveys

In my early days, during bird season I’d hunt an old spur-line railroad while walking to school. Bobwhite quail were the only native upland gamebirds to hunt in northern Illinois…

Autumn Roosters

It all began in 1881, when ring-necked pheasants were introduced in North America. Over the next two decades they were liberated in 40 U.S. states. Mention pheasants to a bird…

Gambel's Quail

I’ve always been reluctant to take a partner along when I hunt the singing windmill arroyo, whose loveliness and loneliness seem to demand solitude. Still, sometimes I relent and feel…

Chasing Chukar

The very name of the chukar evokes the sound of its call and the ache in my legs at the end of the day. Chuka-chuka-chuka. Idaho’s Salmon River is called…

Montana Magic

You know that feeling when everything is so perfect that your brain shuts down – stops thinking rational or coherent thoughts – and almost goes numb trying to focus all…

A Hunter's Heart- An Alaskan hunting Adventure Clarifies the soul of the Sport

It was willow ptarmigan that did it… …The plane spit us out on the edge of Heart Lake, so named on our first approach because – well, hell – it…

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