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Pan-roasted Partridge with Cranberries and Rosemary
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Roasted Woodcock
Chef Hank Shaw Author of Hunter, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast & Duck, Duck, Goose: Recipes and Techniques for Cooking Ducks and Geese Ingredients for Roast Woodcock 2 to…
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The English Cocker
English cocker spaniels hold a special place in my heart. Watching these handsome dogs hunt a field, quartering in their distinctive figure-eight pattern, is almost hypnotic. Like when you gaze…
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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…
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Prairie Wildlife
Twenty years ago this was a worn-out, overworked, eroded piece of monoculture agriculture ground, full of beef cattle and corn, but largely bereft of quail, songbirds, or anything else resembling…
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Passione. Tradizione. Famigilia. Fausti.
In 1948, a young Italian gunmaker man named Stefano Fausti stood at his workbench, picked up his files, and started a company. For most people, the time wouldnot have seemed…
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Horatio Bigelow
The first half of the 20th Century might well be described as the golden age of the bobwhite. It was an era that produced some of the finest writing ever…
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Greek Pasta
Chef Hank Shaw Author of Hunter, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast & Duck, Duck, Goose: Recipes and Techniques for Cooking Ducks and Geese Ingredients 1 pheasant, cut into serving-size…
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German Rabbit Stew
Chef Hank Shaw Author of Hunter, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast & Duck, Duck, Goose: Recipes and Techniques for Cooking Ducks and Geese Ingredients
2 cottontail rabbits, or 1 domestic…
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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…
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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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