The Second Hunting Season
A second woodcock hunting season in Michigan observes no opening or closing dates. No license is required, nor are there bag limits. Guns stay...
Tom Huggler is the author of more than 20 books, including <em>Grouse of North America</em> and <em>A Fall of Woodcock</em>, both of which have won national acclaim and are now collectible. He has been sharing his expertise in wingshooting travel, bird dogs, shotguns and conservation with <em>Shooting Sportsman</em> readers for more than 30 years. Tom lives in Sunfield, Michigan, where he raises bird dogs, and he travels extensively for bird hunting adventures.
A second woodcock hunting season in Michigan observes no opening or closing dates. No license is required, nor are there bag limits. Guns stay...
We hear their raspy cries, like rusted iron gates forced open, long before we see them. Inside our home in southern Michigan, the doors...
Impatience is why deer hunting and ice-fishing will never make my personal “Top Five” of outdoor pursuits. So why does waterfowl hunting, also a...
An unexpected pleasure of hunting with a youngster is how time rewinds itself
During an uneventful afternoon of waterfowl hunting, why shiver another hour when I know the last flock will come in as the decoys are being gathered?
The gastronomic pleasures—or not—of field lunches
Lessons learned from a hunting mentor
What happened to me has probably happened to you, especially if you also live east of the Mississippi.
An active sportsman all his life, it was only natural that he loved to hunt waterfowl.
Walking in the footsteps of those who hunted before.
Bird camps—the good, the bad and the ugly
A sportsman’s paradise in Lower Michigan