Early indications are the quail forecast issued by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is on the nose for this year with a return to quail numbers that is on par with the 10-year average ...

THE SUCCESSFUL INTRODUCTION of the Chinese ringnecked pheasant to American coverts in 1882 has provided sportsmen with an unfailing source of argument. This flamboyant intruder from the orient has not ...

This story, “They Call Him Mr. Bob,” appeared in the January 1973 issue of Outdoor Life. Dempsey Cape and I were feeling for solid footing on a brushy hillside that angled into the swamp woods where ...

Wet weather and high soil moisture mean scenting conditions will be great for hunting quail with your bird dog, says Mark Zornes, small game biologist for the Arizona Game and Fish Department. But ...

It’s as old a hunting tradition as there is in the Deep South, and it’s disappearing as fast as Louisiana marshes. Quail hunting. Try to find a covey of wild quail in the Sportsman’s Paradise, and you ...

Our quail hunt at the riverview plantation in Camilla, Ga., ended sweetly, but started with me swearing. That first February morning, we stood beneath a metallic blue wintertime sky, two old friends ...

As my hunt for a covey came nearer to its conclusion, I noticed the sky beginning to clear to the west under the overcast blanket of clouds above me. Just then, the sun’s powerful rays peeked below ...