The Promise of Quail Guard
In May the leadership of the Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation (RPQRF) and the Park Cities Quail Coalition—and, for that matter, the entire West...
A New Collection of Wingshooting Essays
In his Introduction to An Outside Chance, Thomas McGuane’s classic collection of sporting essays, Geoffrey Wolf grumbles, “Sometimes it pisses me off what he...
‘Bubba’ Wood 1940–2024
Most of the people we meet slide in and out of our lives without leaving a trace. But “Bubba” Wood wasn’t most people. If...
Mouthful of Feathers
It’s hard to put a label on the book Mouthful of Feathers: Upland in America. There’s the title, for starters. Apparently, “upland” is the...
The Price of Asking
The art of getting permission to hunt The house, a ranch-style affair with a commanding view of the surrounding countryside, gave the impression of...
The Legacy of Dumpy & Singo
The do-it-all Boykin spaniel
Wisconsin State Fishery Areas
To trot out the old chestnut: We wuz robbed. A stretch of freakish weather had locked northern Wisconsin in the grip of an early...
Feet, Don't Fail Me Now
More years ago than I like to remember, a friend and I made the long drive from snowy Wisconsin to West Texas for a...
The Public Option
Pheasant hunting, 21st Century style
Eldridge Hardie 1940 - 2021
Eldridge Hardie, one of the preeminent sporting artists of our time and a man of great humanity, integrity and a steely but lightly worn resolve, passed away August 11 following a heart attack.
The Tale of a Dog
Appalachian Grouse Dog: A Boomer’s Memoir is in fact three memoirs written by three people about one animal: a Ryman-bred English setter whelped in 1993 named Cokesbury’s Commander.
Maynard Reece 1920-2020
Maynard Reece, the beloved artist hailed as the “King of the Federal Duck Stamp,” passed away in Des Moines, Iowa, where he’d lived since 1938.