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After the Shinto Priest
Ziggy and me in El Dorado NF My girlfriend keeps calling the California Valley Quail the Shinto priest and it’s starting to stick: those single head feathers do make them look like a Japanese priest....
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Pheasants: Hang ‘em High!
What a horrible reputation the ringnecked pheasant has: tough, wiry, tasteless, dry. If only those who had shot and cooked that prize bird (pheasants in days of old were only available in Europe to...
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Where There be Ducks, There be Billy G!
Duckmaster Billy Gianquinto hammering the mallard call at his ISE seminar in San Mateo Imagine a 13-year-old in a new land, dreaming of doing what his father had done at his age. The teen arrived in...
View ArticleShot Show 2010 Recap
It has been 12 years since I last attended ShotShow. It was big enough then, this year its size, along with the new digs where it was held, were almost insurmountable! Still, it was good to see old...
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BIG GAME ARGENTINA by Craig Boddington [Book&DVD Review/Radio Interview]
Craig Boddington, and his guide, Cano St. Antonin, with a fine red stag taken on the Huemul Peninsula. Argentina conjures a variety of images for those who’ve never been there. There’re the gauchos,...
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Hunting Hollywood for a GRATEFUL NATION [Radio Interview]
Tim Abell on assignment for GRATEFUL NATION in Namibia With such a thick anti-hunting attitude delivered in so many films these days, except those written by hunters themselves, such as playwright...
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Waterfowl Season Starts Now
It’s amazing how the screech of a poorly blown duck call can sound like a teacher drawing her nails across a blackboard. Such is the sound of waterfowl hunters who start much too late in their...
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Roast Specklebelly Goose and Fig Sauce
Hung for two days in the garage and sitting in the bottom of my freezer for the last three years, I was wondering if the goose was still good. One of a snow and specklebelly pair that I had taken in...
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THE GAME COOKBOOK by Clarissa Dickson Wright & Johnny Scott [Book Review]
If you remember the British cooking series, Two Fat Ladies, of PBS and BBC fame, you’ll immediately recognize Clarissa Dickson Wright as the taller of the two, not the proud chainsmoker who passed...
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SHOT Show 2012 Media Day with Winchester Ammunition…and a ‘few’ others!
First covering Shotshow in 1997, perhaps it was about time to attend Media Day: I prefer to trial and evaluate new products in the field, so shooting at the public relations range event is more often...
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