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The Road Continues: Bird Camp
Bird Camp is an eagerly anticipated annual pilgrimage, now in its ninth year. The players have remained the same, except for Brian Fay (the Counselor), who dropped out after the…
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Alone in the Woods
There are times every bird season when I sneak out on my own to enjoy the woods Robert Frost called “lovely, dark and deep.” These are special days when time…
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A Rainy Day Project
It was half past noon and the day was sad and gray like the underside of a bat’s wing. The drizzling sky stretched unending from horizon to horizon and made…
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Quail by the Seashore
Nestled behind the famed Cumberland Island National Seashore and established by automobile pioneer Howard Coffin in 1928 as a sanctuary for international sportsmen, Cabin Bluff has to be considered one…
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Tradition and the Webb Farm
I pulled to the side of the road near the J. Robert Gordon Sandhills Field Trial Ground, rolled down the windows, and enjoyed the sweet, warm breeze blowing through my…
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Road Out Ahead, Part II
We are leaving Montana, continuing the autumn hunter’s road trip to Alberta, Canada. In the morning, preparing to embark, we realize the lug wrench for the Burb (my Chevy Suburban)…
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Beauty Marks on Steel
Gardone, Val Trompia, isn’t a tourist town. Though that part of northern Italy is thick with natural beauty—ragged mountains, shimmering lakes, rolling green valleys—and Gardone’s ristorantes and trattorias serve spectacular…
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Napa Bliss
There are many facets to a great hunt, but good company always rates high. Storytelling among hunters is paramount. We all have entertaining stories and experiences to share. For husband…
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Field Treatments
At the top of the field, a farmer was baling his final cut of hay for the season. The sweet smell of cut and drying hay filled the hot, humid…
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Nearly a Macnab
When I was little more than a wee lad, outdoor writer Ed Park told me about a hunters’ tradition adopted from English literature. The Macnab is so named for the…
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Chew and Chickens
It was the first weekend of February, the customary time for Paul and me to quail hunt with William on his farm in Early County, Georgia. All afternoon William had…
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High Time for Horses
Imagine learning to ride horses and beginning to master equestrian techniques, while learning to fly fish and enjoying shooting five-stand and sporting clays and also, in season, working with sporting…
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