For generations, wildfowling was a way of life along the Eastern Seaboard and market gunning had been a necessary and respected profession. With the enactment of the Migratory Bird Act of 1918, the variant interests of the market gunner and the Federal Game Warden unfolded as a real-life cat-and-mouse game. The struggle became legendary and nowhere was it more vividly played out than along the tidewaters and estuaries of the Chesapeake Bay. Part-time friends and part-time foes, one thing the gunner and the warden shared equally was the bitter gnaw of winter’s salty northwest blows.
This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the launch of The Atlantic
Rancher Company, in Marblehead, Ma. While we are still whispering out this message, over the coming months we’ll be reissuing a slew of authentic originals — classics from our first year in business. Some will be just as you remember them. Others will be presented in fresh colors, with upgraded hardware or limited-edition treatments — all built to commemorate ideas from our 30 years hanging at the Duck Shack, kicking around in the Boatyard, sloshing through the saltmarsh and crossing the Gulfstream.
