Fishing-Hunting
The Upland Almanac
The Land Moved
With a snap of his head, our springer spaniel Chip bolted into the underbrush.
7 min |
Autumn 2025
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Creating Habitat: Nature's Way
It’s a good bet that warm, cozy and secure in their homes throughout the land, most traveling bird hunters remained blissfully unaware of nature’s rampage in Michigan last spring.
4 min |
Autumn 2025
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Day Three: A Hunt Story, Sort Of
Sometimes the story of a day's hunt doesn't say much about shots fired or birds in the bag...
4 min |
Autumn 2025
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NIRVANA OR NOT IN THE NORTH WOODS
If there's one shrub in a favorite ruffed grouse covert that will dampen the excitement of a crisp, fall hunt, it's prickly ash.
3 min |
Autumn 2025
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George Bird Evans: The Artist Before the Author
It doesn’t take long for a person new to the sporting world before they encounter classic book titles such as The Upland Shooting Life, Troubles with Bird Dogs or An Affair with Grouse.
4 min |
Autumn 2025
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SOUTHERN SAFARI
GEORGIA BOBWHITES AT FISHING CREEK FARMS
7 min |
Autumn 2025
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Charles and His Remington: A Gentleman's Choice from America's Gun-Makers' Row - Remington Model 1884 EE Grade
A Civil War vet, let's call him Charles (pronounced with a snobbish lilt, of course), was thoroughly smitten by the parade of high-end American-made, side-by-side, hammerless “automatic” (ejector) shotguns emerging from America's esteemed “Gun-Makers Row”— New England, New York and Pennsylvania.
3 min |
Autumn 2025
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Profile of an Artist: Cindy Dalton
Art has always played a central role in Cindy Dalton's life.
2 min |
Autumn 2025
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Bird Camp Grouse with Mushrooms and Yorkshire Pudding
While visiting my wife's sister Lyndis at her tiny country cottage in Yorkshire, England, a few years ago, we were treated to a spectacular roast beef lunch that ranks as one of the most memorable meals I've ever eaten.
3 min |
Autumn 2025
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Field Foot Care and Dog Boots
A few years ago, I was chasing chukars in southern Idaho's cheatgrass and rimrock country.
4 min |
Autumn 2025
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SO UNCIVILIZED!
Many years ago, Steve, a friend from New York City, visited my home in Washington state.
4 min |
Autumn 2025
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THREE-PEAT
An unfamiliar call sounded faintly from the terrain ahead, at around the distance an NFL quarterback might heave a pigskin.
9 min |
Autumn 2025
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Everything Old Is New Again: Hunting Woodcock in Words
It is that sweet time of year again, when fields, woods and marshes of every kind and stripe beckon us to get off our duffs and make a beeline for the uplands.
8 min |
Autumn 2025
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Rooster Reunion
A big rooster rose up out of the prairie; I didn't mount my gun though, for I get plenty of shooting these days being retired.
8 min |
Autumn 2025
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By Advice of Counsel
In all other matters a man may be as frank and friendly as the sunlight on a trout stream, but he will, if he is an upland gunner, become as deceitful as Satan himself if you question him concerning woodcock cover.
10+ min |
Autumn 2025
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FAUSTI CALEDON SPORTING: A CLAY CRUSHER!
Having spent a fair amount of time on the clay target range, we recently had the pleasure of testing the Fausti Caledon Sporting over-under shotgun, specifically the 30-inch, 12-gauge model. And let me tell you, this gun consistently brought smiles to our faces.
1 min |
Autumn 2025
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Solving Pointing Problems
We've all heard about the hunter who doesn't shoot clays but never misses birds, and we've also heard about the clay target champion who can't hit a bird to save his life.
3 min |
Autumn 2025
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Going Pro: Preparing Your Pup and Yourself for Expert Trainers
Choosing the professional trainer that's best for you is one of those things that the more you know, the harder it will be.
3 min |
Autumn 2025
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Tailfeathers
After calmly sipping some bottled water, I leaned back in the passenger seat of Jon Osborn's pickup, calmly pressed a couple of buttons on my cell phone, and calmly awaited the loving voice of my one, true, loving lover.
4 min |
Summer 2025
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My Small World
The older I get, the smaller my world becomes.” My father used to say that, and though I thought I understood what he was saying, I was never positive until just recently; my world, too, has become smaller.
3 min |
Summer 2025
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SURVIVAL SENSE for UPLAND HUNTERS
Mention the word survival and many who engage in outdoor activities may conjure up images of a Rambo-type character wielding a machete-sized Bowie knife as he digs grubs out of a rotted log or a flock of reality TV contestants competing au naturel on a tropical island.
8 min |
Summer 2025
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FISHING: MYSTIQUES AND MISTAKES
Perhaps all you can say is that there are great lapses or discrepancies in time; that and the simple if inexplicable fact that some people have fishing in their hearts.
10 min |
Summer 2025
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Taking Chances Finding the Good in "Meh
Leaping from bed, running out the motel door and racing the crack of dawn, you rocket toward the storied covert recently profiled in a magazine story, only to find six other trucks parked, idling, awaiting the arrival of shooting hour.
8 min |
Summer 2025
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Walking with Grouse
Walleye and northern pike fishing and the possibility of photographing Ontario's abundant black bears drew me to Errington's Wilderness Resort.
2 min |
Summer 2025
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DOUBLES FOR DAKOTA
The two men that I shared a North Dakota goose blind with were both shooting 12-gauge semi-auto shotguns, but they admired my British 10-gauge double.
9 min |
Summer 2025
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Artistic License
\"In His Veins ... and His Art\"
4 min |
Summer 2025
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Upland Focus: ACRE BY ACRE, HOPE GROWS FOR ONE OF NEW JERSEY'S LAST WILD GAME BIRDS
Every day on the southern tip of New Jersey, a stream of trucks and cars lines up for passage on the Cape May-Lewes Ferry, which has been carting passengers across the Delaware Bay since the 1960s. Cape May has also been a rendezvous point for American woodcock since long before there was a ferry — or a city — at the spot.
6 min |
Summer 2025
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Classic Upland Guns
Lefever Arms Company, Part II
5 min |
Summer 2025
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Small Streams Forever!
It is mid-April as I write this, well ahead of this summer issue's appearance.
7 min |
Summer 2025
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Pages Past
Sometimes in sporting literature, we overlook a chapter or passage due to a more memorable sentence or story.
2 min |