by Chris Dorsey | May 9, 2023
“I like making good food accessible to everyone — especially hunters.” Southeast Louisiana is a dreamy place to grow up if your loves are diverse hunting opportunities and exceptional flavors. For Lance Lewis, the other key ingredient was having a father who...
by Chris Dorsey | Sep 7, 2022
Happy opening day of dove season, America. Across the country, millions of bird hunters celebrate this unofficial holiday of sorts by heading to sunflower patches, milo fields and watering holes to test their wingshooting skills on one of the hunting world’s toughest...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 9, 2022
As all seasoned fly fishermen know, rivers tend to reach a kind of perfection in the waning light of the day. The drift boats have left the water, wind that foils a back cast often subsides and the mercury-like water of the river reflects the greens, browns and...
by Chris Dorsey | Jun 24, 2022
Is this the world’s greatest freshwater gamefish? Hop a Cessna Caravan and leave the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia and its 2.5 million inhabitants and it isn’t long before you’re swallowed by millions of acres of untrammeled jungle. The forested hills and valleys...
by Chris Dorsey | May 18, 2022
Air Rifles Continue Hunting’s Quiet Revolution I’ll never forget my first morning deer hunting on public land near my childhood home in southern Wisconsin, a state with more than 600,000 deer hunters. For nine days a year, the state could field the world’s seventh...
by Chris Dorsey | Feb 16, 2022
The loss of the Great Salt Lake would lead to an ecological and economic catastrophe the likes of which America has not seen since the Dust Bowl. Utah is a state blessed with more than its share of natural wonders and beauty, and residents and visitors are never far...
by Chris Dorsey | Feb 3, 2022
Colorado residents are now mystified that the state’s legislature is about to take up a controversial bill that would ban mountain lion and bobcat hunting. Not long ago, Denver could have been the literal manifestation of Ronald Reagan’s, “shining city on the hill.”...
by Chris Dorsey | Feb 1, 2022
“It must be remembered,” said Winston Churchill, “that the function of Parliament is not only to pass good laws, but to stop bad laws.” In recently moving to ban the importation of animals taken by hunters — predominantly from its former colonies in Sub-Saharan...
by Chris Dorsey | Jan 11, 2022
Fresh off my annual multi-state fall hunting tour — part of the occupational hazard of being an outdoor television host, former magazine editor and book author (I know, it’s a dirty job…) — it seems an opportune time to assess the state of hunting. That is, with more...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 3, 2021
It’s time to plan and act—embrace Africa and she will sink her claws into you and never let you go. But what on Earth to wear? From South Africa’s Kruger National Park to the Eden of Botswana’s Okavango Delta to the vast plains of the Serengeti, travelers are ditching...
