Spring is almost here and with it the promise of bears leaving their dens, gobblers strutting and fish biting. In the Match/April issue of Sporting Classics, join Duncan Grant and Brad Fenson on an epic bear hunt in Alberta that reflects on bear hunting since the beginning of mankind.
Curious about where the future of bullets is aimed? Ron Spomer covers the ongoing technology while Wayne van Zwoll takes us back to the 6.5 Swedish; a favorite chambering of those who have used it and rightly so.
Discover how the myth of Robin Hood and a dying Indian led to the famous archery duo of Saxton Pope and Art Young and the influence they had on the future of modern bowhunting. Duncan Dobie “rides along” with Theodore Roosevelt to see how his experience gained in the western wilderness was more important to his later life than graduations from Harvard.
In our “Classics” story; shipwrecked on the “Mosquito Coast,” one intrepid adventurer survives being bitten by a “tiger,” but just might be eaten by ants unless the natives save him! You’ve heard of fishing’s “Grand Slams,” but what about the “Trash Slams?” Tom Keer takes fishing for the fun of it in “Slam Time.”