Days Afield

The Quail Hunter’s Lost Code

There’s a small, back corner on a piece of public land in Kansas that my dad and I have hunted for 10 years. It’s…

A couple of years ago I found myself hunting late season public lands in West Virginia. Having never hunted here before I took to…

There are times, especially early in a season, when forest grouse – Dusky, Spruce, Ruffed – have yet to recognize that almost everything loves…

Chukar Partridge have some nasty habits. They hang out in lofty spaces, the rockier and more rugged the better. Chukar are a non-native…

Sitting here in camp staring at these two peaks in Arapaho National Forest. In the last week the dogs and I have visited both….

I’ve been accused in the past of trying to make every bird hunt a “religious experience.” I laughed it off when first cast. But…

Rio the setter is holding just below a lip of pitted volcanic stone a few paces up this 60 degree slope. We’ve climbed for…

“I am lost” “Going to shoot. Let me know if you can hear it.” “Hear it?” “I was 50 yards from the truck.” It’s…

Spike camp was two miles from base — as the raven flies not really that far in this expansive National Forest. But as flatlanders…

1. Brian Koch Why Peasants Shoot Doubles

The problem with looking at guns as investments 1) you have to be willing to sell and 2) after decades of hunting the condition is no longer pristine so their…
2. Neal Why Peasants Shoot Doubles

Don't forget about the AMERICAN CLASSICS that can be a good investment.$$$
3. Donnie Bowling Why Peasants Shoot Doubles

I wish I could have the truck and the gun...lol. I am using a 20, single shot, Walmart gun, and drive to the field in a refashioned two wheel drive…