Why We Hunt by the California Waterfowl Assoc.
This is such a great video essay on the principles and understanding of hunt and the need for such interaction by humans, I had to post a link to the video posted on YouTube:
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When Your Dog Gets Cold
Ziggy comfy in ice with his Avery 5mm Boater's Dog Parka So much snow flew across southern Oregon’s Highway 66 at o-two-thirty-dark, as I made my way to Lower Klamath Refuge, that I thought I was...
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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...
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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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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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FORGOTTEN SKILLS OF COOKING by Darina Allen [Book Review & CO Radio/TV]
In 1972, I arrived in Singapore to attend the Singapore American School and soon after was introduced to a documentary film, called Future Shock, based on a book by Alvin Toffler and narrated by Orson...
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Pre-Season Duck & Quack Prep with Billy G [Radio Interview]
Only a few more weeks and a number of duck hunters will be heading out for the start of waterfowl season. At the outset of duck hunting, even the worst duck caller will get shooting. As the weeks go...
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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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