Pointers in Africa
Walk-up hunting in the South African Highlands The Milky Way paints itself overhead, and satellites streak across the southern constellations, their paths lit like...
Bobs in the Black Belt
A wingshooting weekend at Prairie Wildlife
Kindred Quail
Gentlemen bobs & fine guns at SouthWind Plantation.
Driven in the Old Dominion
A late-season shoot at Primland
The Hunter's Heartland
For me, though, the essence of Heartland Lodge was captured in the final image of our last day’s hunt, a perfect blue-sky December day spent in the field with guide Terry Abney: the sudden blaze of sunset on a cackling rooster’s wings, the gun’s thump against my shoulder, and out there beyond the dogs, right where the hillside falls away, the sight of golden feathers bursting like a firecracker and the big bird tumbling, tumbling down.