The Long Way to Boone

I've spent a lot of years in these mountains, enough to know the interstate is the worst way through them. The drive worth taking is the slow one. South to north, creek to creek, off the highway wh...

A Limit Before the Coffee Went Cold

Labor Day gave me something a dove field almost never does: a limit and weather you didn't dread. Slightly overcast, no shirt soaked through by seven a.m. A pleasant and unexpected surprise, Mr. We...

Dove Day: Poppers Are Out.

First Saturday comes and goes fast. What you do with the birds afterward doesn't have to. Here are two ways to turn a modest bag limit into something worth putting on the table, one fast and one sl...