For ten minutes I held my 8x binoculars on it; then it moved. Like magic the tremendous outline of a big ram’s head came into focus, and I almost choked on a mouthful of cold bannock at the size of it.
When I prepare for a hunt, I spend time visualizing how it will happen. So, for months leading up to last spring, I pictured a big grizzly calmly feeding at 35 yards and a well-placed arrow striking him from an unidentifiable source. Just how a bear hunt should play...
Up for auction this May, a pair of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton’s war pistols may set a world record as the highest priced firearms ever publicly sold. A pair of pistols belonging to Founding Father Alexander Hamilton will be offered May 14th, 2021 by Rock...
In this Sporting Classics Daily exclusive, 68-year-old South Carolina angler, Roy Greer, reveals how he caught what may soon be recognized as the new world record largemouth bass. From high-jumping rainbows in Alaska to quarter-ton marlin off Panama, from lakers in...
This Kansas teen now holds the world record for the largest non-typical whitetail shot by a female hunter, a 42-point buck. In September of this year, Paslie W. from Kansas was out hunting with her father only one day after the youth hunting season had begun. That...
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has recognized Logan Liddick of Carlisle, Pennsylvania as the new Maryland state record holder for the gray triggerfish (Balistes capriscus). The 34-year-old angler caught the 6.0-pound, 20-inch long fish on September 25,...
A new world-record paddlefish has again been pulled from Keystone Lake near Tulsa, Oklahoma less than a month after the previous world record was snagged in the same lake by a client of the same fishing guide. Angler Cody James Watters of Ochelata is the newest owner...
Edmond, OK Angler Snags New State-Record Paddlefish at 146.7 Pounds The world record for paddlefish taken with rod and reel will likely fall to a giant 146.7-pound Oklahoma monster snagged at Keystone Lake on June 28 by James Lukehart of Edmond. The massive fish was...
No dog, to anybody’s knowledge, has done what Heidi did and racked up all the upland birds and all the migratory birds. In the late 1990s, on a beach in Vancouver, British Columbia, George Calef’s eye was caught by a smallish chocolate Lab. The dog was...
Richard Hagen caught an 89-pound flathead catfish — a new state record — in the Missouri River last week. Richard Hagen had just landed a 12-pound channel cat on one rod when his other twitched, bobbed and then bent. He picked it up — and didn’t let go of it for...