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Forged by Family Tradition
About 90 miles northeast of Dallas as the waterfowl fly, on the outskirts of the sleepy town of Sulphur Bluff, Texas, you’ll find the Hageman Reserve—a 14,000-acre private sporting club…
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Woodcock Coverts
Recently it dawned on me what woodcock hunters are referring to when they talk about hunting their favorite coverts. As I understand it, a covert is a place that is…
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The Honor Hunt
Beginnings and endings, beginnings and endings—these are all most folks remember in life. You remember your first day on the job, for example—when new colleagues giggled because you wound up…
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Rocky Mountain Memories
I wrote a book about my Brittany named Winston and our travels together and how he pointed all of North America’s 18 major upland birds, from Alaska to Mexico. My…
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Guayascate
Every aspect of a visit to Guayascate is designed to ensure that hunting parties are delivered the ultimate in wingshooting opulence—even the dramatic setting differentiates this remote Argentinean venue from…
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La Portenita
Having experienced firsthand the fabulous Guayascate Lodge, I continued my Argentinean sporting odyssey to La Porteñita, a working estancia not far from the dove fields of Guayascate. Situated at the…
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Finding Elvis
Full disclosure: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool duck hunter from the Midwest. Nothing makes me happier than a mud-stanky Lab’s tail beating out a 4/4 rhythm on my leg with the clouds…
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In the Heart of Wine Country
Situated on 80 pristine acres in St. Helena, California, a town whose motto is “the heart of Napa Valley,” The Napa Valley Reserve may literally be just that: the very…
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Puppy Love
In the first blush of a fine spring morning, Linda Baker, director of the Upper Green River Alliance, and I disembarked from her truck in Wyoming’s 7-million-acre Upper Green River…
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A Time of Quiet Wonder
Each year, a certain autumn day breaks and slips over the Connecticut River, covering the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont with morning light. It is the beginning of a reunion for…
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Opening Day
I met Mike when I moved back to River City after completing medical training. He sold medical equipment–everything one needed to set up practice. A quintessential salesman, loquacious and voluble…
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El Paso Del Verano Al Otono
The dog dropped on point somewhere in the wheat, leaving a void in the place he had been. A moment before, there had been a wind-blown Belton setter there, a…
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