Alaska’s Bird of Fire
Sharp-tailed grouse in the Last Frontier Some 11,000 years ago, Alaska looked a lot different than it does today. While the rest of North...
Features
Celebrating Sweetgrass
A Wyoming sporting paradise Descending from the clouds and touching down at the Gillette, Wyoming, airport, you can practically smell the Ponderosa-pine and sage-studded...
A Wingshooter's Guide to Argentina
A primer on hunting & shooting in Argentina International travel by American hunters can be traced back to the 1800s, when epic voyages by...
Walking Up Scotland
In pursuit of Highlands red grouse The dog dropped and froze in the same instant. After a pause, he eased forward carefully, one foot...
Heartland Bobs
Pursuing wild coveys across the Midwest There I sat with my pair of dogs, a setter and a Labrador, atop a hill in the...
Classic Pheasant Guns
A full field of timeless rooster-takers John Browning didn’t know he was on the path to inventing the first classic pheasant gun when he...
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...
Late, Great Chukar
The joys of ending the season in the high country I could only stand and stare, gasping for breath as I watched the birds...
Getting the Jump on Ducks
Late-season jump-shooting on moving water The drake mallard’s green head rips the white fabric of the hills. Where there were once only common winter...
The Spanish Revival
The Spanish gun trade rises again Anyone who has chased upland birds for more than a couple of seasons knows boom and bust. One...
Celebrating Sharptails
Observations on habits & habitat Lewis and Clark were barely underway when they camped along the Missouri River in what is now South Dakota...
The Eurasian Invasion
Drawing down on the new dove in town There’s nothing else really like it. Teal can zoom into the decoys, zigging and zagging all...