This Humble Wildling with a Benelli Super Black Eagle 3

This Humble Wildling with a Benelli Super Black Eagle 3

SPONSORED CONTENT Benelli’s Super Black Eagle 3 is the combination of legendary shotgun performance with features recommended by Pro-Staff and hunters that make it better. The sun had just begun to cast its golden hues across the vast, open prairies of Saskatchewan....
Spotted Horse on the Windy Prairie

Spotted Horse on the Windy Prairie

Sporting Classics Assistant Editor-Digital, Adam C. Trawick, went with Byers Media to take a couple toms off the windy prairies of South Dakota. It was a brutal, gale-force driven 26 degrees Fahrenheit that smacked us as we stepped foot onto the muddy grounds of the...
Dispatch From the Caribbean 4

Dispatch From the Caribbean 4

At the intertidal zone on the north shore of St. Croix, located on the west edge of Annaly Bay, rests a tidal pool. Access to this rock formation where saltwater deposits pool together, separate from the sea, is not easy, though rather simple: You either hike the 2.7...
Dispatch From the Caribbean 3

Dispatch From the Caribbean 3

The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. As long as it takes to pass A ship keeps raising its hull; The wetter ground like glass Reflects a standing gull The land may vary more; But wherever...
Dispatch From the Caribbean 2

Dispatch From the Caribbean 2

“Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.” – Walt Whitman  There are moments when you feel an action....
Dispatch From the Caribbean

Dispatch From the Caribbean

We arrived in St. Croix around three this afternoon. The atmosphere was a bit heavy, some weighty humidity. The wind carried in an air of salt — mnemonic zephyrs of days yester. Scents have an uncanny power to conjure old memories. Catch a whiff of the sea when you...
This Is Your Rifle – True Aim

This Is Your Rifle – True Aim

Our Editorial Director, Scott E. Mayer, called me into his office to help him mount and bore-sight a scope on a Mossberg Patriot Predator 308 Win. After a few instructions on the rifle itself and its constituent parts, he handed me an envelope and a blank “Thank You”...
Fruitful Blessing – Dispatch

Fruitful Blessing – Dispatch

My boss, Sporting Classics’ Editorial Director, Scott E. Mayer, had inquired about us going fishing on a Friday after work, a few weeks back. He added that we would be doing so at a pond located in the backyard of our Publisher, Duncan Grant. I humbly accepted....
As Crepuscule Closes In

As Crepuscule Closes In

A brief and artistic depiction of the very moment a young child falls in love with fishing. A faint zephyr curled the tip of her hair. Shoulder length. The lapping of edge water murmuring. Inveigling liquid whispers heralding dusk – some primal tongue understood by...