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Reopening

Yesterday, Monday, November 1, fly fishers far and wide shared a cheer, if not also…
tiger painting
Stubbs painted only a single tiger, but in three versions.

Tracking Tigers in Life and in Art

The first tiger in my life was Shere Khan, the “chief among tigers” in Rudyard…
steelhead fly
Nineteenth-century Atlantic salmon fly

The Last Best Fly?

With Northwest steelhead runs falling to record lows this year, and rivers now closed to…
There are few better books for travelling than Gene Hill. Wieland has forgiven him for having his James Woodward fitted with choke tubes. The gun is a Purdey, circa 1880.

Road Lit

Wingshooters are truly blessed in that we have at our fingertips a wealth of literature.…
Calm on the East African Plains (1918) by John G. Millais

What’s in a Name?

I miss bookstores. Not mall bookstores with 50 shades of the same thing, but independent…
"Still Life with Pheasants and Plovers" by Claude Monet

Janis Gave Me a Pheasant

I opt to make a version called Braised Pheasant with Sauerkraut Alsatian Style. Our county…
rifle
A top-quality rook rifle from Joseph Harkom, one of Edinburgh’s finest makers (later absorbed by Dickson’s). In all likelihood, it was made by W&C Scott to a design by Holland & Holland and (perhaps) finished at Harkom’s shop at 30 George Street. It’s chambered for the .300 Rook.

Rooked

A “rook,” as in “rook & rabbit” rifle, is a black bird, found in England,…
shooting
The author in his element. The rifle is a Snider-Enfield.

Learning the Ropes

When I was but a boy, when dragons roamed the Earth amid smoky tendrils from…
The Melton Hunt Going to Draw the Ram’s Head Cover, Sir Francis Grant. Image courtesy Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Fine Arts & Flowers, Galas & Gowns – and Mellon

by Brooke Chilvers Around the time I bought my first pair of bellbottoms, my mother…
franz marc deer
Franz Marc, Deer in the Snow (2011)

From the Clairière de l’Armistice to Franz Marc

Virtually every French king, and two self-proclaimed emperors, hunted stag, roe deer and wild boar…
october caddis
October caddis

October Caddis

I recall selling a piece to Gray’s years ago, and then being told by the…
This J. Braddell & Son combination gun from the 1870s is a marvel of good taste and a testament to the skill of the anonymous Birmingham craftsmen who created it.

Ruminations of a Scroll Guy

Would that I had a dollar for every time someone has picked up a gun…