Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 17 Trailer
This week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey features a dream fulfilled for the lucky winner of SCI's Adventure of a Lifetime Sweepstakes with a hunt for big game in New Zealand and an impressive haul of prizes. Check out Sporting Classics with Chris...
The Russell Travelling Sportsman Classic Build
Introducing the Travelling Sportsman Classic Build A Russell classic, the original Traveling Sportsman Chukka was developed for Sporting Classics magazine, who had limited space to pack for their remote international adventures. The goal was to be able to hunt, hike,...
Rigby for Rifles
From its Dublin origins, London base and forays to California, plus a traditional client base in Africa, John Rigby & Co. represent an important component of the ever-deepening connectivity that defines the modern world.
Dump the Slump
Ralph Waldo Emerson once pronounced, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” It was, and is, true in the context that he meant it. It’s important to not allow yourself to be confined to “the box.” In this day and time, you’ve got to be able to look...
September’s Lessons
It was the kind of heat that has weight—like an enormous hand pressing down. Every so often a puffy cloud would pass, obscuring the sun and providing a few moments of blessed relief. But then the sky would clear, the sun’s unblinking gaze would hammer down once again,...
New England Woodcock and Storied Shotguns
Storied is not exclusive to price tag or class. Occasionally the twain rub shoulders and have a bountiful supply of tales to tell, but there are no guarantees. This Purdey, however, had it all. Scratches and dings and rubbed-smooth spots. Cost? Likely something...
Home Coming Whitetails
The rustle of fallen white oak leaves littering the ground 30 feet below demanded my immediate attention. There, patches of brown moved. A deer! Heartbeat racing! Breathing? I am not certain I even took a breath. A solid hour before first light and under the cover of...
Down On the Border: Mearns’ Quail
I’d been following my Brittany, Tess, through the steep, rocky canyons of southeastern Arizona’s Coronado National Forest for the better part of an hour when her bell fell silent. I found her upslope—bug-eyed, trembling and stretched out on point—at the base of a live...
Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 16 Trailer
This week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey is an adventure in the Gulf Stream as Chris Dorsey and friends are after tight lines on saltwater. The fly fishing adventure starts in Cape Cod in pursuit of striped bass, then heads south to Puerto Rico to...
Rifle Cartridges: All in the Family
The old, plodding 30-’06 Springfield, for instance, is not just yesterday’s news; it’s moldy, too, and so is anyone who hunts with one, according to millennials or whatever they call the most recent come-of-age generation. In contrast, the 6.5 RPM from Weatherby is a...
Fair Winds, My Brother: Daufuskie Family
Forget about deer stands,” he said. “Just boost your woman high up in a live oak late in the afternoon. That way you’ll know she’ll still be there when you come to fetch her home after sunset.” We were on his front porch, out of the wind on a chilly afternoon, easing...
Long-Range Shooting at Game
There is probably no subject connected with shooting about which so much nonsense has been written and spoken as the distance at which game can be killed with the rifle. This was bad enough in the days of muzzleloaders. It has become doubly bad in these days of...
Twin Tubes: Side-by-Side or Over/Under
The double shotgun took its form when Joseph Manton (1766 – 1835) put two shotgun barrels side by side with their independent flint locks. Manton spent lots of his time working on explosive ordinance for the British Army, but we fondly remember him for establishing...
Robert Churchill: Ballistics Expert & Bespoke Gunmaker
Think of the name Churchill and Churchill Downs might come to mind with mint juleps, outlandish women’s hats and sleek Arabian steeds or perhaps Winston Spencer Churchill who guided Britain through some of the darkest days of World War II. His quotes are many, but...
Legacy Gifts
It was nearing midnight that Thanksgiving evening many years ago. The fire had waned to pulsing orange embers, the room captive to darkness beyond its failing glow, but for the single, small table lamp by Daddy’s chair. The night was mellow as moonlight on a meadow,...
Parkwest Arms SD-10 Falling Block
Sleek, trim, light, strong, yet elegant, this U.S.-made iteration of the old dropping breech block action captures all of the falling block’s potential.
Springfield’s Emissary: Shooting Chocolate Cake
Amazon got its start in a garage. Google was started in a dorm room and eventually upgraded to a garage. Today’s Springfield Armory beats them both— it got its start in a corn crib before eventually upgrading to building M1A rifles in a former diner. The original...
Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 15 Trailer
This week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey features an epic hunt for red stag and fallow deer in the stunning mountains of New Zealand. Chris Dorsey returns to the south island to pursue big game with his old friend John Scurr in an adventure that...
A Joyous Process: Joseph Sulkowski
In his vivid sporting scenes and in his nostalgic still-lifes of well-worn guns and fishing tackle, classically trained artist Joseph Sulkowski continually imparts his notion that a painting “should look like a lot of fun.”
Black Dog Handlers
For the past 43 years, on the first Monday in March, after the close of bobwhite quail season on the fabled plantations of the Red Hills Region that that spans Tallahassee, Florida, north to Thomasville, Georgia, the invitation-only Georgia-Florida Shooting Dog...
Old Tree Stands
If only old tree stands could talk, imagine the stories they could tell. Stories about opening days, big bucks, little bucks, deer killed, deer missed. Maybe even stories about what thoughts pass through a hunter’s mind as time goes by sitting in a deer stand. The...
Charles Sheldon: Visionary Sportsman
Born in Rutland, Vermont, on October 18, 1867, for the first three-plus decades of his life Charles Alexander Sheldon led a fairly normal upper-class existence. He came from a well-to-do family involved in marble quarrying and spent his formative years with New...
An Artist In Big Game Country: Almost Skunked!
Often, it is my custom to make careful pencil sketches of the characteristic rocks and growth of a locality, and from time to time an adventure is the result of the quiet and waiting. On a remote lake in Maine, two deer were feeding at the water’s edge, and just...
Brays Island Plantation: Your Sporting Life Awaits
SPONSORED CONTENT Brays Island Plantation is a unique coastal community dedicated to providing residents and their guests with an array of recreational opportunities suited to their outdoor lifestyle. To this end, Brays Island meticulously maintains an expansive...
Ithaca Doubles: Overlooked Classics
Like many enterprises of the time, its origins were humble. It began in a rough little wooden structure perched precariously on the steep gorge of Fall Creek near Ithaca, New York. The virtue of the location was its abundant water power, and the building had already...
Ezra Bogg’s Moose Hunt
“Yep” sighed old Ez, as he bunched a forkful of chewing and elevated it into the gap in his features, “I’ve seen ’em. An’ I can say that jedgin’ by what I see of ’em they’re tough customers. I hain’t a-hankerin’ to renew my acquaintance with ’em—they’re a trifle too...
Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 14 Trailer
When bobwhite quail populations in West Texas plummeted in 2010, concerned hunters took notice and banded together to fund research to find a solution to the mystery. Now the efforts from the Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation are bearing fruit for wildlife in...
Tarpon Fishing & Luxury Living in Boca Grande
This magnificent Boca Grande home features 6,207 feet of air- conditioned space and 150 feet of waterfront on Gasparilla Sound. Five high-ceilinged bedrooms and 5 1/2 baths offer luxurious personal space for your family and guests. A Wolf range with double oven,...
The Glorious 12th: Hunting the Red Grouse
It sneaked up like an important birthday only insiders knew. We hardly deserved party invitations!
Never Give Up: The Half Day Hunt
It's midnight when we pull into elk camp, dark and cold with a clear sky. There's no moon. The only light comes from the huge canopy of stars hanging low over the mountains, reflecting off the frost-covered ground. The stars are so low I feel like reaching up and...
Idaho Odyssey
One of the great wonders of young boys is never realizing how a chain of everyday events can so forcefully change and redirect your own life in years ahead, even into adulthood. For me, raised up in a 1940s small town in the foothills of northern California’s lovely...
Scotland’s Ultimate Sporting Quest
The 1925 adventure novel John Macnab is the story of three high profile Scottish friends who are suffering from severe cases of the doldrums and are instructed by their physician to try something out of the ordinary, perhaps with an element of danger to snap them out...
A Return to Repke’s Farm
Following in the footsteps of Gordon MacQuarrie through Wisconsin’s upland woods.
Woodcock, Wolves, and Wandering Bears
An unforgettable season opener in the wild country of northern Minnesota.
Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 13 Trailer
The world’s most watched outdoor television series embarks on an unforgettable safari adventure in Tanzania as Chris Dorsey and Steve Hicks hunt myriad plainsgame on this week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey on Outdoor Channel. The two intrepid...
A Glance at The Grouse
The fame of the game red bird overseas is too well known to require any comment here. Besides, in the matter of grouse, we have troubles not a few of our own. That the British bird is a grand fellow goes without saying, but the question if he be the head of his race...
25 Years of the Super Retriever Series
Spring rains in southeastern Georgia can be either a blessing or a curse. If they’re cold, then handlers running Labs will need a lot of layers to knock down the chill. If they’re warm, then the heat combined with high water levels will bring out the water moccasins....
A Man-Killing Bear
Angry and horrified at his friend’s fate, the man spent days looking for the cunning and savage monster.
The Premier Collection—Complete Matched/Numbered Set
The Premier Collection—Complete Matched/Numbered Set CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW A splendid offering for the discerning collector of all 50 titles in the Premier Collection from Briar Patch Press. These books feature all the attributes of a high-quality work—leatherbound,...
Holland & Holland’s Aim for the Future
Holland & Holland, long respected for producing firearms of the highest quality, was acquired in 2021 by the Beretta Holding Group from the French perfume company, Chanel. For three decades, the French company tried to redefine and reinvent the venerable old gun...
Flooded-Timber Mallards
Daylight promised its coming in typical Delta fashion. Scudding clouds that produced off-and-on splatters of heavy, iced rain drops riding a north wind that hardly qualified as gusts. Still, that wind was more than ample to toy with denuded oaks, easily making eager...
Fish of a Thousand Casts
They’re not typically given the title, but Atlantic salmon in low water certainly qualify as “the fish of a thousand casts.”
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SPONSORED CONTENT Swarovski Optik North America celebrates its 75th anniversary with special offers on some of its most popular products. NL Pure 32 and 42 Binoculars As soon as you look through the NL Pure, the technical masterpiece that lies within reveals...
Glass From the Past
Some “old” scopes were dandies! Would the hunters who used them prefer top sellers now? The Henriksen-stocked Mauser and its 6x Pecar scope were both heavy. But I was young and keen to scale the steeps for a bighorn ram. I found one in a nook, 250 yards below my path....
Fall Float on the Wild Watauga
Trout the hard–and fun–way in fishing’s late season.
Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 12 Trailer
Get ready for an epic adventure in Greenland as Chris Dorsey and friends hunt eider and muskox in this week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey on Outdoor Channel. The team of Dorsey, Terry Graunke, Steve Farris and Charlie Potter navigate through...
A Rifle to Palm
Power and accuracy make a rifle lethal. A waist that welcomes your hand makes it useful.
What Does Its Third Century Hold for Purdey?
Although there has been some debate about whether the eponymous gunmaking firm of James Purdey began operations in 1814 or 1816, 1814 is the date chosen by Purdey leadership to mark the firm’s beginnings, making 2014 the bicentennial of J. Purdey & Sons, or more...
And Still They Came
A day in the duck blind almost too good to be true.
Pronghorn: High Plains Drifter
A six-legged demon was ripping pieces out of my face. I didn’t dream of flinching. Not now, not after all I had been through the past three months.