American Sporting Traditions. The Golden Years. This Portrait version of my book chronicles the 60 years the author has devoted to hunting upland game and waterfowl with classic guns and traditional hunting techniques. Twenty full length chapters are supported by over 60 full color photographs of guns, dogs and traditional gear. The articles will take you back to a time when Vintage Skeet and Hunter's Clay were time honored Gun Club pastimes of Sportsmen. A time when hand carved decoys populated your duck hunting stool, and the titillating aroma of paper shot shells curled up from the open breech of your thee blade Damascus double while your dog was making the retrieve.