At the Roundhouse with Uncle Thomas and the boys
For the February 2 Federal Youth Day, a group of old friends flocked to the Santee Delta for a weekend for which ducks provided a...

Charleston Mercury Staff
Mar 6, 2019


Illuminating the extraordinary
“Oh, man!” Roy quips, “I have been hunting all my life! I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t hunting! Daddy always had bird dogs and we...

Charleston Mercury Staff
Feb 11, 2019


Delta dawn and ‘Ribeye in the sky’ Ducks of the Mississippi Flyway
John Smoak, a Lowcountry native, has a robust duck hunting background. “I cut my teeth duck hunting here locally in rice fields,” he...

Charleston Mercury Staff
Feb 6, 2019


Soulfully preparing wild game with Jimmy Hagood
The Thanksgiving holiday is perhaps the single most popular field day for hunters. And indeed, the family and social gatherings...

Charleston Mercury Staff
Dec 11, 2018


Brays Island: A sporting way of life
In the 1950s, my father and grandfather traveled from John’s Island to Brays Island to purchase calves from the historic agricultural sea...

Charleston Mercury Staff
Jun 11, 2018
A pleasant pheasant shoot in Jacksonboro
Weather and sparse sporting seasons have combined to make February and early March a restless, dormant period for sportsmen. Aware of...

Charleston Mercury Staff
Apr 6, 2018




