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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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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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Dogs of Duality
Epiphanies are confounding. You never know you’re going to have one, right up until the moment you do. They can’t be summoned, predicted, or carefully constructed from the sturdy building…
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Ben O. Williams: A Legend of the Fall
Ask Ben O. Williams and he will tell you that the wingshooting season does not start on opening day. Indeed, bird hunting is a year-round endeavor in the Williams household…
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Technology
Rummaging in my hunting cabinet the other day, I came across a sheep bell. It is the one my dad used last century to keep up with his wide-ranging dogs…
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Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom
Occasionally a writer comes along with a knack for putting into words aspects of the sporting experience that all hunters feel yet find difficult to describe or share with others…
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Straight Shooter: Lars Jacob
Lars Jacob is turkey hunting, everything he does revolves around shotgunning. He’s likely to be in the Covey & Nye gun shop in Manchester, Vt., searching for the exact gun…
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The Inimitable Mr. Buck
Theophilus Nash Buckingham was, to use a once popular term, a gunnerman for the ages. Virtually all his long life was devoted to wingshooting and bird dogs, and the hallmark…
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Old Flintlock
Archibald Rutledge was the 20th century’s most prolific sporing scribe. Known to family and friends as “Old Flintlock,” he was an internationally acclaimed poet, beloved teacher and author of close…
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The Last Hunt- Blowin' in the Wind
Totally exasperated, I pulled the truck to the side of the road, jumped out and checked my boots. “It’s got to be you, Vic,” I growled. “Get out and check…
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A Will and a Way- T. Boone Pickens
Roberts County lies in the northeast part of the Texas panhandle, its 924 square miles of high, lonesome emptiness occupied by fewer than 1,000 hardy and independent souls. Some of…
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