by Chris Dorsey | Nov 9, 2026
And why hunters everywhere should pay attention. Somewhere between proposing a constitutional right to hunt and fish and watching it go down in Colorado, sportsmen found themselves arguing about whether somebody’s Labrador might step in a steel-jawed trap. Wayne...
by Chris Dorsey | Nov 5, 2026
I usually arrive at the Safari Club International Convention with a perfectly sensible hunting plan. Then I encounter a mounted animal that looks as though it stepped out of an explorer’s fever dream, and fiscal discipline quietly slips out the nearest exit. Who knew...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 28, 2026
A blue zone is a place where people are known for living unusually long lives. Much has been made of what they eat, how they exercise, and who they keep company with. I wish them well, though reaching 100 on a steady diet of beans sounds like something you should...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 22, 2026
Travis Haglin stopped me at the Beretta booth during last year’s Safari Club International Convention, moving with the haste of a man who had found something he wasn’t supposed to show anyone. “You gotta check out this room.” Coming from someone with the Beretta...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 19, 2026
Ella Langley has committed an unforgivable celebrity offense: being the person she sings about. Old photographs of the country star hunting deer, including with her father, have resurfaced, and the internet’s Department of Recreational Misery has opened an...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 15, 2026
DENVER, CO — Dorsey Pictures is back in the fight to help protect hunting and fishing in Colorado, and has developed an advertising campaign supporting Colorado’s Amendment 83 including four :30 commercials The One Right They Missed, The Signs, Keep the Crazies Out of...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 6, 2026
Somebody ought to send Oregon’s animal-rights activists a thank-you note. In trying to outlaw hunting, fishing, and farming, they have made an excellent case for organizing the people they’d like to shut down. Their Initiative Petition 28 would have removed...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 2, 2026
Somebody ought to manufacture fishing waders specifically for sitting on the fence. Reinforced seat. Extra padding. Absolutely no traction. Send the first pair to Trout Unlimited, which seems to need considerably more preparation to defend the right to fish than most...
by Chris Dorsey | Sep 29, 2026
A mallard dropping through flooded timber is a pretty good argument for getting out of bed at four in the morning. So is a Labrador trembling beside you, convinced that you are the only thing standing between her and the greatest day of her life. In those moments, I’m...
by Chris Dorsey | Sep 27, 2026
I didn’t know Cabot Pitts. But when I read the message from Keith Atcheson and Jack Atcheson Jr. announcing his death, I found myself thinking about an awful lot of people I do know—and how much of my life I owe them. Some of the best friends I’ve made have been...
