The Sporting Life

Sporting South
Best of the Sporting South: Field Guides
A top-notch guide can turn a bad day into a good one and a good day into an unforgettable experience. Hedge your bets with any of these eleven standouts

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Shotguns for Women Shooters
A new class of shotguns arrive as more women head to the range

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Best of the Sporting South: Top Dog
In the world of field-trialing bird dogs, there are pointers and then there are…more pointers. So when an English setter named Shadow Oak Bo won the National Championship, he sent a shock wave through the circuit. Then he did it again

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Crazy for Quail
Think the golden age of wild Southern quail hunting is gone forever? Don’t tell that to three South Carolina sportsmen who spent twenty long years transforming an old pine plantation into a wild bird haven

Good Dogs
Explore a Southern Wild Bird Haven
Go on the hunt for wild quail at Pineland Farm in South Carolina

Good Dogs
Four Principles: Creating a Quail Hunter’s Paradise
The formula to Pineland Farm’s success

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Helice: Skeet on Steroids
A new shotgun sport that’s the next best thing to live birds

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Fly Fishing’s All-Star Cast
Some of the world’s greatest anglers gather in the Florida Keys for a few days of instruction with some very lucky students

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Sandy Moret’s Fly Fishing School
Head on the water with some of the world’s greatest fly fishermen in the Florida Keys

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On the Court With John Isner
The reigning king of American tennis is a nice Southern boy from North Carolina

Made in the South
Handcrafted Decoy Ducks
In the South Carolina Lowcountry, a devoted duck hunter carves hollow-bodied decoys loaded with history

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VIDEO: The Art of the Duck Decoy
Head into the shop with decoy maker Tom Boozer

Made in the South
Decoy Ducks with History
A look at the hollow-bodied decoys made by South Carolina craftsman Tom Boozer

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Sandlot Baseball: Diamonds in the Rough
A free-spirited version of baseball is coming to a sandlot near you

Home & Garden
Silo-Style: A Twist on the Hunt Cabin
An old grain silo is transformed

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On the Trail of Ruffed Grouse in North Carolina
G&G editor in chief heads to the Blue Ridge Mountains

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Sporting Scene: Hickory Golf
A growing group of golf classicists are swapping steel for hickory

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The House of Beretta
For half a millennium, in a small valley in Italy, one family has been producing some of the finest guns in the world

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Rick Bragg on Boys and Coon Dogs
For a group of young boys in the mountains, nothing beat the howl of a legendary coon dog

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Sporting South: Best New Lodges
Whether you’re after fin or feather, these destinations deliver