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The Grouse in My Head

“Hunting is not fiction, but it happens in the mind.” —Datus C. Proper, Pheasants of…

The Bird Familiar

If you peel back the layers of North American bird hunting to expose its core, you…

Lovely, Dark, and Deep

A wingshooter looks back at 70 years of snapshots. [by Roger Pinckney]

Still-Hunting, R.I.P.

CLARE IRWIN WAS THE MOST AT HOME in the woods of any man I’ve ever…

Liar’s Code

BEING FISHERMEN, my friends and I were all great liars. We fibbed about the monster…

David Hagerbaumer

Game birds on the wing, in a way we’ll never see again. [by Brooke Chilvers]

The Last First Day

If you do only a few things right in your life, let them be the…

Colorado Public-Lands Pheasant Hunting

Pheasant Hunting Colorado from Colorado Parks & Wildlife on Vimeo.

Of Sea Islands Single Birds

When I first set foot on Johns Island, South Carolina, it was still a bucolic…

A Sixties Grouse Hunt

That day, Teague pointed regularly and we hastened forward to flush, each in his turn,…