Long Island Pond Shooting
The greatest sporting artist of the 20th century hunts black ducks on an icy pond.
New AD Maddox Slip-On Footwear
Over the years, wildlife art has been featured on a vast array of products, from prints and posters to lampshades and wall clocks, bed spreads and blankets, furniture and mirrors, glasses and dishware and even grandfather clocks. And now, thanks to renowned artist AD...
42nd Annual Southeastern Wildlife Exposition February 16-18, 2024
The first stop on your trip to SEWE 2024 needs to be Charleston Place, if for no other reason than Sporting Classics will be manning a booth there. The magazine will be set up at the entrance to the art gallery on the second floor. You can’t miss us! Since 1983,...
NEW: Gallery by SEWE
Gallery by Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE), a new, brick-and-mortar extension of the annual Charleston SEWE event. The Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and the southeast’s premier wildlife art show and outdoors...
Ducks of Wood: A Good Investment or Not?
In my half-century of collecting antique duck and shorebird decoys, I have been asked countless times: “Are they a good investment”? My answer is always the same. “It depends.” And then I go on to explain. Just for the purpose of answering this question, I will...
The Reluctant Guide for Roosevelt
The fresh-faced young man from New York was eager to hunt mountain goats and was doing his best to persuade the rugged man from Missouri to act as his guide. The Missourian was Jack Willis and the tenderfoot was 28-year-old Theodore Roosevelt, who was with a...
A Tribute to Wildlife Artist Jim Killen
“Life is like a painting. It starts with a dream and a blank canvas and it’s anybody’s guess how it will turn out. Then brushstroke by brushstroke with time and care, something beautiful starts to take shape and you have then created a masterpiece.” Jim Killen The...
The Men Behind the Scenes
Theodore Roosevelt’s historic safari through British East Africa was more than a year in the planning and took nearly a year to complete. It became the most significant expedition ever taken on the Dark Continent. TR’s safari collected more specimens and identified...
2024 January/February Issue
Shake off winter and warm up to the promise of an exciting African safari with the January/February 2024 issue of Sporting Classics. In this issue we go after leopard in Namibia and sit with Jim Corbett in what was likely his most important night vigil. Meet Jim...
Karamojo Crossing
The rains were gone but the rivers were still swollen. He looked on in amazement as the men calmly walked into the river, each man carrying a big elephant tusk across his shoulder. As they neared the middle of the river, they continued to walk until one by one they...