"A basic shooting book by a writer-shooter who shares with his readers a lifetime of experience in the fields, the pines, the birches, the alder swamps, and the brushy borders, in pursuit of grouse, pheasant, woodcock, and other upland game."--Dustjacket.

The complete, authorized biography of one of America's premier outdoor essayists and dog breeders. This book tells of the lives of George and Kay Evans, their life together at Old Hemlock, and of the founding and perpetuation of their world-famous line of Old Hemlock setters. George Bird Evans established a beautiful, stylish line of English setter bird dogs. In the 1950's, he began writing about gunning the uplands over his Old Hemlock setters, which became his legacy. Over the next four decades, Evans wrote for several major sporting magazines and completed 20 books, including the classic The Upland Shooting Life. Evans continued to write and hunt until his death in 1998 at the age of 91. His passionate and contemplative literary contribution to upland gunning has influenced both writers and hunters for decades. This book offers one of the most complete biographies ever written about any of the greats of sporting literature.

When award-winning outdoor and nature writer Charles Fergus decided to leave his longtime home in Pennsylvania, he wrote a memoir of his last season hunting upland birds—grouse, woodcock, and pheasant— in his favorite coverts, some of which he had visited every autumn for almost thirty years. His stories of memorable hunts and dogs, the loss of his beloved home ground, and enduring hunting friendships are gathered in A Hunter’s Book of Days, a new book from Countrysport Press.

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Understand gamebirds and hunt smarter. Become a better bird hunter! Here's how. We crossed the continent to cover all of North America's upland game birds in one fact-packed, picture-filled volume that is stunning in its beauty and unbelievable in the amount of hunting knowledge it delivers. This comprehensive guidebook takes you on an upland hunting journey for pheasants, all the grouse and quail, doves, turkeys (and more) that you do not want to miss.

In an epic season of sport, Jim Fergus and his trusty Lab, Sweetzer, trek the mountains, plains, prairies, forests, marshes, deltas, and deserts of America.