Chapter 04
Essays
Field notes written the long way.
The written record — 21 pieces across 7 publications: histories of the pointer and the American Field, essays on race and belonging in the uplands, training notes, and tributes to the dogmen who came before. Every link opens at the publication that ran it.
Project Upland · 10
- Georgia-Florida Shooting Dog Handlers Club — Ambition to Tradition 2020 · cover feature of the Summer 2020 print issue
- The Evolution of the Pointer in America from the English Pointer 2020
- Creating the English Pointer from the Pointer Dog Ancestry 2020
- The Founding and Idea of the American Field 2020
- Whoa Training on a Barrel — the Why and How with Bud Moore 2019
- Squirrels and Rabbits Help Define Versatility in Upland Hunting 2019
- The Best Shot Size and Chokes for Bobwhite Quail 2018
- All the Bobwhite Quail in the South Aren't Gone 2018
- On Being an African-American Upland Hunter from the South 2018
- Teaching and Dog Training, It's All the Same 2018
Outdoor Life · 3
Orvis News · 4
Benchmade Journal · 1
TRCP · 1
Tall Timbers · 1
- All Hail the Handler 2022
Gun Dog Magazine · 1
- Red Hills Reminiscences — · in print
In the press
Profiles and features about Durrell, for the curious.
- Filson Journal — “Honoring Your Call” (2025)
- Star Tribune — “Words, Art and Action” (2023)
- Orvis News — “Guide Profiles: Durrell Smith” (2023)
- Garden & Gun — “Ten Champions of Conservation” (2022)
- Tall Timbers — “Durrell Smith Is on a Mission” (2022)
- The Bitter Southerner — “A Guiding Light in the Great Outdoors” (2021)
- TRCP — “In the Arena: Durrell Smith” (2021)
- Beretta USA — “Upland Hunting and Dog Training Insights”