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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 |
Summer 2025
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Be There And Take Along a Fly Rod
The number of fly fishing destinations across the United States covers a broad array of water.
7 min |
Summer 2025
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Landings : BEEF AND BIRDS
Four months ago, the pup and I could stand in this pasture and hear prairie chickens on the distant horizon booming from every direction.
5 min |
Summer 2025
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Making Every Shot Count
There's an old joke about a grouse hunter who gets lost in the woods.
4 min |
Summer 2025
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Tailfeathers
continued from page 74location unknown, and catch a mess of huge trout.
4 min |
Summer 2025
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Bird Dogs - Health Matters
Canine Hip Dysplasia and PennHip
5 min |
Summer 2025
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The Check Cord
Going Pro: Preparing Your Pup and Yourself for Expert Trainers
3 min |
Summer 2025
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Day's End
The average length of the human tibia is 15 inches.
2 min |
Summer 2025
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Throw a Dog a Bone ... or Maybe a Chicken Foot or Sweet Potato Chip
Throw a Dog a Bone ... or Maybe a Chicken Foot or Sweet Potato Chip
5 min |
Summer 2025
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THE BIG HURTS
my Uncle Pat once told me that both pain and disappointment were good:“The more of those you have experienced,” he explained, “the longer you have lived; suffer but a little, and you’re in an early grave.
4 min |
Winter 2025
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Day's End
NEAR MISSES
5 min |
Winter 2025
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Hunting Dog Hypoglycemia
The first time I ever saw a dog have a seizure from hunting dog hypoglycemia was 25 years ago while hunting pheasants in western Kansas.
3 min |
Winter 2025
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Profile of an Artist: MATT DOYLE
Throughout Matt's life, there has always been an active passion for the great outdoors. As a young Pennsylvanian boy, his dad and grandfathers would take him out fishing and later hunting to share their deep-rooted respect and enjoyment for God's country. It became very clear that their passion for the outdoors would soon develop his passion for it as well.
1 min |
Winter 2025
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DESERT CATHARSIS
Miles of sagebrush and grasslands slipped past during the 10-hour drive between Bozeman and Denver.
7 min |
Winter 2025
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RED CAR WHITE DOG:
A Riff on Sporting Vehicles and Other Matters
9 min |
Winter 2025
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UENATOR CAUE (HUNTER BEWARE) A FIELD GUIDE +O HUNTING LODGES
From ice bars to plywood shacks, in-room hot tubs to a kitchen staff uprising, the hunting lodge experience can be fascinating and frustrating.
8 min |
Winter 2025
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Charles Helles & Sons, London
“Some enchanted evening ... you may see a stranger across a crowded” – gunroom.
2 min |
Winter 2025
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ON POINT: Finding My Way with the Help of an English Setter
Becky came into my life in a rather unusual way. My friend Tom McGuane had just bought a home on Mobile Bay as a place to retreat from the cold winters of his Montana ranch.
5 min |
Winter 2025
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Tail feathers - STANDARDS AND PRACTICES
\"An armed society is a polite society,\" the NRA says in one of its dicta, cribbed from Robert A. Heinlein, a 20th-century American science fiction writer.
4 min |