The Armchair Outfitter

It doesn’t seem possible that it’s time for me to write the piece that will end another year. Although I missed Kansas this year, I hunted Alabama and Tennessee and fished Alabama and Florida. In between, the Sporting Wife and I tore hell bent for leather across the countryside chasing fins, fur, and […]

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“It must have always been in me somewhere and, though it has faded at times, it has always lingered and returned; this interest in the hunt. The evocative smell of gun-oil, metal and old wood, of powder and dogs and leather. These have held me for as long as I can remember and […]

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Since early hominids discovered that setting up shop in a cave will keep your cooking fire dry and your backside out of a saber-tooth cat’s mouth, man has been searching for his own space. For just about as long, he has been sharing that space with woman. One way to preserve domestic […]

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