"We'd better give them a head start," he ," Carl muttered, squinting at the pickup truck ahead of us. "I need to get a run at it."
It consisted of a two-track trail, the likes of which are ubiquitous in the dry foothills of Idaho and Oregon favored by chukar partridge, though our wait took place many times zones and a hemisphere away in South Africa. The departing pickup clawed its way up a dusty trail littered with flinty stones, headed for a lofty plateau drooping with a broken escarpment of ledges and rimrocks. Yellowed tufts of grass jostled with occasional dots of fading green deciduous shrubs on the landscape. Above, blue sky stretched endlessly to each point of the compass, save for a line of thin, languid clouds barely visible on the faraway western horizon.
After a few moments, Carl released the clutch and pressed assertively on the accelerator. The singular carriage careened up the trail, jouncing its occupants and coupled to its rear bumper, a swaying trailer crammed with canines. Perhaps unique among hunting vehicles on earth, our transportation consisted of a very old military ambulance, a 1950's era Land Rover, converted for carrying would-be bird shooters and all the kit necessary for a properly civilized hunt.
The bouncing abated atop the Stormberg Plateau. It extends on a northeasterly axis from the interior of the Eastern Cape province in South Africa to Lesthoto and just beyond. Its elevation extends from 5,000 to 8,000 feet above sea level, a "mountain" range consisting of innumerable canted faces, thin valleys and lofty plateaus. The only dinosaur fossils ever discovered in South Africa were fetched from these flinty hills.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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THE BIG HURTS
my Uncle Pat once told me that both pain and disappointment were good:“The more of those you have experienced,” he explained, “the longer you have lived; suffer but a little, and you’re in an early grave.
Day's End
NEAR MISSES
Hunting Dog Hypoglycemia
The first time I ever saw a dog have a seizure from hunting dog hypoglycemia was 25 years ago while hunting pheasants in western Kansas.
Profile of an Artist: MATT DOYLE
Throughout Matt's life, there has always been an active passion for the great outdoors. As a young Pennsylvanian boy, his dad and grandfathers would take him out fishing and later hunting to share their deep-rooted respect and enjoyment for God's country. It became very clear that their passion for the outdoors would soon develop his passion for it as well.
DESERT CATHARSIS
Miles of sagebrush and grasslands slipped past during the 10-hour drive between Bozeman and Denver.
RED CAR WHITE DOG:
A Riff on Sporting Vehicles and Other Matters
UENATOR CAUE (HUNTER BEWARE) A FIELD GUIDE +O HUNTING LODGES
From ice bars to plywood shacks, in-room hot tubs to a kitchen staff uprising, the hunting lodge experience can be fascinating and frustrating.
Charles Helles & Sons, London
“Some enchanted evening ... you may see a stranger across a crowded” – gunroom.
ON POINT: Finding My Way with the Help of an English Setter
Becky came into my life in a rather unusual way. My friend Tom McGuane had just bought a home on Mobile Bay as a place to retreat from the cold winters of his Montana ranch.
Tail feathers - STANDARDS AND PRACTICES
\"An armed society is a polite society,\" the NRA says in one of its dicta, cribbed from Robert A. Heinlein, a 20th-century American science fiction writer.
