Written by: Charles Few. Lancaster, PA The day had been cold, dark and foreboding. It was now late in the afternoon. There was a front moving in and several inches […]
Story Fair 2023
The Queen of the Forrest
Written by: Gino Venditti. As my wife, Sarah, and I stood in the conference room of the B Rizzini Factory located in Marcheno, Italy, we waited for our factory tour […]
 A Grouse Hunter’s Reprise
Written By: Matthew Farr. Sequim, WA Red dirt stained my boots as I strode down an old two-track. A young aspen stand stood to my left while my young pup […]
Persistence
Written By: Mathew Pankratz. Wisconsin Rapids, WI I’ve always been a believer that things will work out in the end, but when you’restruggling through, as I often am, making it […]
Makwa in the Bowstring
Written By: Luke Merickel. Richfield, MN A fresh blanket of snow had fallen earlier that morning. The past two days, we enjoyed snow free ruffed grouse hunting which is a […]
A Delaware Woodcock Story
Written By: Daniel Barry. Philadelphia, PA Growing up,I loved hearing stories of the glory days of upland hunting in the First State. As akid, my father would tell me stories […]
Brook’s Nook
Written By: Marie Madaras. Pittsburg, NH The air shifted. The humidity settled; a cold mist suspended around me, unearthing the smell of rotting leaf litter beneath my boots mixed with […]
An Echo Through Cover
Written By: Brandon Smith. Mount Morris, New York There is nothing like experiencing something for the first time. It is a reality that can never be replicated. Hunters, and anglers, […]
The King Has Fallen
Written By: Travis Deitrich. Elizabethville, Pennsylvania A number of years ago I began hunting ruffed grouse. I was on break from school over Thanksgiving and had already taken an archery […]
The First Woodcock of ’21
Written By: Geoff Whisler. Webb Lake, WI “They also serve who only stand and wait.” ~ John Milton, When I Consider Gentle Readers and Loved Ones, Another Rowdy hunting story […]
