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Camping for Rainbows

Mention trout fishing in South Carolina and many people will think of speckled seatrout, oyster beds and marsh grass. Seldom thought about are rainbow, brown, and brook trout in a mountain wilderness setting. […]

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For the Love of the Dove

In the beginning, Louis Batson III was his dad’s designated retriever in the dove field — a 5-year-old boy scrambling through corn stalks to pick up birds brought down by the blast of his father’s humpback Browning 12-gauge. […]

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Going Primitive

There is something mystical about the feel of a good primitive bow. It seems to come alive in the archer’s hands. Light, responsive and, when shot instinctively, they are very quick-handling. […]

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Let Mother Nature get on with her handiwork

The little municipal lake in my hometown is undergoing a tremendous drawdown this year, from 365 to 88 acres, as the local utilities commission puts in a new dam and prepares to put the wrecking ball to the existing one, which was built 100 years ago and is starting to, er, um, leak. […]

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Dove-Day Afternoon

The gray, feathered missile bobbed and weaved, riding the afternoon breeze as several loads of No. 8 lead shot narrowly missed making contact and sending it tumbling to the ground. […]