Field Journal

From the Editor in Chief: Counting Coup

Friends Old, New, and Soon to Be, For the Plains Indians of North America, the height of martial skill lay in approaching an enemy as closely as possible before touching...

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Viva Espana

The kathomp, kathomp, kathomp of my heartbeat in the headphones is getting annoying.   They call them ear defenders in Spain.  One wears them on a driven shoot instead of the foam throw-away earplugs...

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Fool’s Errand

This June may well have been God's finest to date. The air was as sweet and crisp as a ripe red apple. Every dew-dropped blade of grass reflected the electric...

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Tom Beckbe and Ducks Unlimited Partner to Launc...

Tom Beckbe, the renowned purveyor of timeless and functional outdoor gear, is excited to announce a long-term partnership with Ducks Unlimited (DU), the nation’s leader in wetlands and waterfowl conservation....

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From the Editor in Chief: Gone for the Dogs

Friends Old, New, and Soon to Be, I live in coastal North Carolina, where the lifestyle attracts more people than the employment opportunities. Granted, it’s hard to be excited about...

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Wandering Wilderness

Seger's "Against the Wind" choruses in the background while lazy wipers slap back and forth and tires hum over damp blacktop. "The years rolled slowly pastAnd I found myself aloneSurrounded...

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A Hunter's Library

The doe came in quickly, leaping over a small creek and pushing through a narrow trail in the rhododendron, bothered by a small buck sixty yards behind her. He was...

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Book review: Jake Forrest Lunsford on "Mouthful...

I come back time and again to this idea, that hunting is the basis of art. It always has been. Hunting gave us language and pictographs and the finest throwing...

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Frozen in Time

I am practically skipping back to my truck, though being careful not to bounce the pair of ruffed grouse stashed in my vest. I’m going to turn these into a...

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April's Fool

Sometimes hunting is about more than filling a tag. Going turkey hunting when you’ve never killed a turkey is not one of those times. For years the season in my...

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Charles Hellis And Sons Number 2921: The Quinte...

I began honing my shotgun skills at a young age with a Continental side-by-side — a vintage JP Sauer & Sohn 16-gauge boxlock owned by my father. Although somewhat utilitarian...

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Obsession

I had a notion, hatched, no doubt, from my father’s penchant for Louis L’Amour paperbacks and Charlie Russell oils. Sleep on the ground under the western skies. Ride a good,...

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Tom Reed Interview: Mouthful of Feathers, Uplan...

Friends Old, New, and Soon to Be, I’m a lifelong Southerner forced by circumstance to live in other places at times in my life. But no matter where the nation...

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