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.
A Tale of Two Warriors
Over the course of three seasons, on a Brigadoon-like highland deep in the Appalachians, dog and bird thrust and parry, matching wits and nerves and senses, each made better by the other.
A Lifetime of Grouse & Woodcock
Grouse & Woodcock: The Birds of My Life, by Timothy C. Flanigan, is available from Wild River Press.
Trapped!
What to do—and not to do—if your dog gets caught in a trap.
Crying Wolf!
When upland hunters share coverts with wolves