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...
by Chris Dorsey | Jul 7, 2021
For the angler with perpetual wanderlust, nothing says you love them more than these gift selections designed with the traveling fisherman in mind. The opening line in Norman Maclean’s classic, A River Runs Through It, is perhaps the most memorable distillation of the...
by Chris Dorsey | Jul 5, 2021
The Bahamas are open for business. In his latest Forbes column, Chris Dorsey shares how angling tourism helps our neighbors. As radical sabbaticals go, leaving a 30-year career in the finance world to build a bonefishing lodge in The Bahamas is more than a...
by Chris Dorsey | May 28, 2021
With the fate of the NRA in the hands of a court, some gun rights advocates begin to search for new leadership for the organization. After months of revelations of self-inflicted wounds at the National Rifle Association—including kick-backs, self-dealing and a culture...