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2 months ago | 
gardenandgun.com | Jonathan Miles |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
Anne Tyler’s “biography sounds cosmopolitan (born in Minneapolis, married to an Iranian psychiatrist, herself once a graduate student of Russian),” wrote John Updike in a 1976 review of a Tyler novel, “but she says she ‘considers herself a Southerner’; and she does apparently accept the belief, extinct save in the South, that families are absolutely, intrinsically interesting.” Updike added: “Are they?” Almost a half century and nineteen novels later, most of them devoted to family life, Anne...
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
fieldandstream.com | Cosmo Genova |David Draper |Jack Hennessy |Jonathan Miles
Venison Backstrap Recipe Ideas: The Ultimate Wild-Game Guide to Cooking Our Favorite CutAs much as we love the look of a shoulder mount or deer skull on the wall—the real trophy of a successful deer hunt is the wild game we bring home. And if you were to poll 1,000 whitetail deer hunters and ask them to pick their favorite cut of venison—their trophy cut—odds are that the majority of them would select the loin—a.k.a. the backstrap.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
fieldandstream.com | T. Edward Nickens |Colin Kearns |Jonathan Miles |Phil Bourjaily
THE FLY LINE straightens out 3 feet above the water, and the popping bug hits the pond with a pleasing splat. I see the popper try to roll over, which tells me I have a bit of twist in the leader that I should probably take care of. But that little bit of movement sends a few microripples quivering on the water’s surface, so I let it ride. That just might be the ticket.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
gardenandgun.com | Jonathan Miles |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
Thirteen years ago, I spent a curious afternoon with the Silicon Valley financier and futurist Peter Thiel. Our meeting, for a magazine profile I was writing, predated Thiel’s shift into electoral politics, where he later gained fame—or infamy, depending on your bent—as a Republican mega-donor, right-wing influencer, and, in some sense, kingmaker.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
fieldandstream.com | Phil Bourjaily |T. Edward Nickens |Jonathan Miles |Sage Marshall
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more. FORTY YEARS AGO, then-college student Mike Jensen walked up to the counter of the Olathe Gun Shop in Olathe, Kansas, curious to learn what his shotgun was worth. He’d bought the L.C. Smith double for $150 from a friend just before he’d left home in Boone, Iowa, for nearby Nazarene College. “I handed the gun to the owner,” recalls Jensen, “He wouldn’t give it back to me.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
fieldandstream.com | Dave Hurteau |Scott Bestul |David Draper |Jonathan Miles
I love early season deer hunting. The weather is nice. You don’t have to wake up at the crack of dawn, as early season hunting is mostly an afternoon affair. And there’s a easy-going, low-pressure vibe to the first few weeks because you’ve got the whole fall in front of you, with plenty of time to fill your freezer. But, if I’m honest, the biggest reason I love early season deer hunting is because there is absolutely no better time to tag a mature buck that you’ve identified and located.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
fieldandstream.com | Jonathan Miles |Tom Davis |Phil Bourjaily
Today is the opening day of hunting season. And if it isn’t, just wait a few days. Maybe a week at most. Either way, get ready. It’s funny. We tend to think of opening day as a single date on the calendar, when in fact, more than 2,000 different hunting seasons—early seasons, late seasons, youth, bow, and gun seasons for dozens of critters in scores of zones—will open in 2018. And more than 700 of them will open in August and September.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
fieldandstream.com | Jonathan Miles |David E. Petzal
Slipping up to the crest of the sage-flecked knoll, we peered down at a pair of stunning tan-and-white pronghorns. “What a buck,” I said, eyeing the closer one. “He’ll go close to 15 inches.”“Yep,” my guide replied. “Now, if he’ll move a bit, we’ll get a better look at the real trophy behind him.” Making a classic novice’s mistake, I had assumed the taller buck closest to us was superior.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
fieldandstream.com | Steve Culton |Curtis Niedermier |Joe Cermele |Jonathan Miles
Summer can be cruel to a devout trout fisherman. I found that out during the relentless drought of 2016. By July, flows on the Farmington River—my home water in Connecticut—were reduced to a pathetic 60 cubic feet per second. It looked more like a rock garden than a river, forcing its browns to huddle up in scattered cool-water refuges. I had no choice but to give them a rest. Still, it was summer and I wanted to fly fish. Luckily the nearby Housatonic was there to give me a fix.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
fieldandstream.com | Will Brantley |Curtis Niedermier |Jonathan Miles
_We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more ›_As the water begins to warm in late February, Southern bass anglers go on the hunt. Bill BuckleyThere are some skills Southern kids learn early, like cooking and good manners. They’re also quick to ditch the Snoopy rod and get comfortable using a baitcaster.
