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Off-Season Trails
Between hunting seasons, I have time to catch up on all the tasks that come from hunting hard. I pass my time stitching my vests and shooting shirts; cleaning my…
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Prairie Boomers
Again I travel east, over a blue highway passing through big, open grasslands that stretch for miles. To my left, the mixed grass prairie extends north through much of the…
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Highland Adventure
We worked dogs for a very long time up a long, gradual slope to a position at the top of a rolling Oregon hill. From that elevated vantage point, I…
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Shooting a Round with Nick Price
We meet for lunch at Pine Creek Sporting Club, the exclusive hunting-and-shooting destination located in central Florida, equidistant to Orlando and south to Palm Beach. Professional-golf icon Nick Price offers…
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Pointer Blessed
A dog you love should live as long as you do. How often now have I said this to myself since I began hunting over dogs? That was 59 years…
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Let Us Now Praise GSPs
Picture this: You’re working the edge of a hay field turned brown, cut months before in late summer. A lanky young German shorthaired pointer plunges in and out of the…
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What Happens Naturally
It was a week from his 68th birthday when we spoke and artist Peter Corbin of Millbrook, New York, shared how he first held a shotgun at age 6 and…
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After the Leaves Fall
At home on Cape Cod, late November is a time for reflection. That might be because the Pilgrims explored what is now our town center a few months before landing…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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An Annual Southern Classic
The Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival has become one of the largest and most recognized wildlife-arts exhibitions in the country. But it is not just the show itself that brings people…
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