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Bird Dogs - Health Matters
Joint Relief Made Easy
5 min |
Spring 2021
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ARTIST PROFILE: Bill Harrison
Every picture tells a story. Just as a writer reconstructs life through narrative, an artist tells his stories by interpreting life through lines, brushstrokes and textures.
7 min |
Winter 2020
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A Season of Sharptails
The birds erupted from knee-high grass, a scant 40 feet from the dark, twitching nose of a black-and-white English setter, his flanks, ribs and legs invisible to the eyes of the hunter. I swung on the nearest bird, the barred primary feathers of its wings beating frantically for lift into full flight.
8 min |
Winter 2020
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Minnesota Covers
It’s the peak of grouse and woodcock season; there are few better things.
6 min |
Winter 2020
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In the Swing
Senior Eyes Get New Life
3 min |
Winter 2020
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Classic Upland Guns
The Fowling Piece: Isaac Hollis & Sons London, Muzzle-Loading Sporting Percussion Shotgun
3 min |
Winter 2020
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For the Birds
Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society
8 min |
Winter 2020
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Old Timey Pheasant Facts
In one of his “Pages Past” columns, The Upland Almanac contributor Glen Blackwood suggested that we hunters spend some off-season time with biological books and bulletins to better know our favorite upland game birds. So I did.
5 min |
Winter 2020
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REDEFINING LIMITS
The joys of winter hunting know no limits. Drifting leaves and slanting sunlight may be the abiding images of autumn, but winter’s austerity is an acquired taste, like rare woodcock or straight whiskey.
5 min |
Winter 2020
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Hope Makes the Hunter
Day's End
3 min |
Winter 2020
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Sleeping with the Princess
In 1968, it was still universally accepted that a hunting dog would become “soft” if you let it sleep in the house at night. I had just purchased my first dog, a male Brittany, so I built a kennel outside, provided a nice doghouse and diligently put him up each night, even when it was snowing and blowing and the trek to his kennel door and back made me miserable.
5 min |
Winter 2020
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The Scout: 2020
It’s time for our annual preseason look at the habitat conditions, weather phenomena and bird populations across the Lower 48 states that will probably play a major role in the situations you face when you step into your favorite upland bird hunting spot this autumn.
10+ min |
Autumn 2020
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Public Access, Personal Success: Tips and Stories
Use it or lose it.
7 min |
Autumn 2020
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From Recollections of My Fifty Years Hunting and Fishing
There are several reasons why I have written this book. I have hesitated to undertake it for a long time.
7 min |
Autumn 2020
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They Will Always Be Blues
Dr. Ron Salomone from Ohio and a pair of grouse dogs soak in the view along a Colorado ridge top. (Photo/Michael Salomone)
7 min |
Autumn 2020
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Social Distancing in Wolf Country
A wolf howl makes my hair stand on end, every time.
6 min |
Autumn 2020
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Tastes Good, Doesn't Kill Me
Want some big flavor? Try stirring in some guts.
4 min |
Autumn 2020
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The Plumed Speedsters — Pacific Coast Range Mountain Quail
It happens with a crack of a stick while walking in on a distant point; a covey explodes both left and right into the thicker stands of young Douglas firs.
8 min |
Autumn 2020
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Lake County
Good sage grouse country is vast by necessity. In Oregon, Highway 140 takes you there, where the soil sits on top of Miocene rocks, 17-million-year old basalts exposed by wind and water on the edges of sage plateaus. The dark igneous stones — earth’s prehistoric eyes — stare as you walk past.
6 min |
Autumn 2020
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Joseph Defourny
One of Belgium’s Finest Shotgun Makers: 20-gauge Bespoke Side-by-Side
3 min |
Autumn 2020
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A Different Kind of Quail
The fact I have never been on a “classic” quail hunt was rubbed in again last October by a gentleman with some obvious Southern roots. He had pulled up his pickup behind mine as I exited a tangle of wild blackberries that loosely followed a small creek into a steep, rocky canyon.
3 min |
Autumn 2020
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Still Smokin'?
On a chukar hunt 35 years ago, my wife issued a challenge: She could last longer without nicotine than I.
4 min |
Summer 2020
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Shooting for “Successful Beginnings”
Listed among a handful of women as a National Sporting Clays Association (NSCA) Level III Shooting Instructor, Elizabeth Fennell is an all-around lover of wing shooting, clay shooting and fostering other women into recreational shooting sports.
5 min |
Summer 2020
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Quail Shooting
We hear a great deal in these days about abundant physical exercise as a necessary factor in the maintenance of sound health and vigor.
5 min |
Summer 2020
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Fields of Dreams
Eastern Shore Conservationists hope if they build it, the bobwhite quail will come (back)
5 min |
Summer 2020
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Deciphering Dog Food Labels: Good Luck with That!
“There’s no way anyone can look at a label and tell anything about the quality of the dog food.”
10+ min |
Summer 2020
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Day's End: Big Running Dog
“Where is your dog, Joe?”
3 min |
Summer 2020
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Bird Dogs - Health Matters
Bird Dogs - Health Matters
4 min |
Summer 2020
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The First Bird After
I was returning from town with groceries when I saw the spiral of smoke from five miles away.
4 min |
Spring 2020
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High Times In Haddeo
Into this landscape is woven a sporting tradition dating to the 11th century.
9 min |