Story Fair 2023

Written By: Ralph Fatello. Hampton, NH I have been hunting a covert that I call “The Cellar Hole” for the last 10 years. It’s basically an old foundation from the […]

Written By: Dan Riley. Winslow, ME It was early January when I received a letter from NAVHDA that my young female Brittany, Willow, qualified for the invitational after earning a […]

Written By: Randy Lawrence. Junction City, OH It felt more like driving the getaway rig for a jailbreak than leaving for a hunting trip.  I would pull into the Honda […]

Written By: Herb Evert. Cottage Grove, WI Camped on the bank of the Peshtigo river in far northeastern Wisconsin, that stream of deceitfully quiet water between stretches of tumbling rapids, […]

Written By: Seth Owens. Grand Forks, ND I’m often frustrated by that prehistoric, instinctual, fight-or-flight response that all humans have in the 21st century. Not because it was crucial to […]

Written by: George Skakel. Staples, MN Within a year of our wedding, 35 years ago, my new father-in-law, a man of some means, invited me to go Ruffed Grouse hunting […]

Written by: Scott Hill. Tecumseh, MI July 18th, 2001 was a very memorable day at the Hill house. Our setter Jazz along with my wife and two daughters delivered nine […]

Written by: James Falstad. Winthrop Harbor, IL THE HUNT On an early October Friday I snuck out of work a couple minutes early, loaded the dog and pointed the truck […]

Written by: Ron Weber. Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin It was just the kind of day I had been waiting for. The temperature hovered in the low forties with a light northwest wind […]

Story by Anthony J. Conte. Manhasset, NY The blistering sun tortured us unmercifully as it attempted to burn through the multicolored foliage that hung desperately to the branches of the […]