RIA Premier May Auction
Rock Island Auction Co. gavels in $22 million in May! Rock Island Auction Company (RIAC) brought in $22 million in sales at its Premier Auction of 2023, which took place May 19-21! Featuring the Beaumont-Adams revolver surrendered by Confederate President Jefferson...
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...
Youth Field Trial Alliance
A Cause We Can All Get Behind I want to give a shout-out to a relatively new organization whose presence on the sporting landscape can’t be viewed as anything but a good thing: the Youth Field Trial Alliance. The brainchild of Chris Mathan, the human dynamo behind...
Sporting Classics Bourbon Rock Glasses
Made from premium full-grain leather our new bourbon rock glasses feature robust stitching and solid brass rivets for a secure hold. Engraved with our signature Sporting Classics logo these glasses are something you'll be proud to put on your bar. Each leather wrap...
The Big Predators
With lions, wolves and grizzlies on the increase, I may start wearing a bulletproof vest when I go to these remote areas. I like hiking in fields and forests to sniff about for deer, elk, birds and rodents. Now, however, I must look over my shoulder and stay alert for...
Join Us at Griffin & Howe June 2-4, 2023
Join Sporting Classics and many other fine exhibitors as we help Griffin & Howe celebrate its 100-year anniversary, the 25-year anniversary of Hudson Farm and grand opening of the new Griffin & Howe Showroom! The Anniversary Showcase runs on Friday June 2nd,...
Jim Fender’s African Book Collection
Click Here to View All An inveterate reader with wide-ranging interests, Jim Fender has spent a lifetime collecting and reading books in a wider variety of areas. In many senses a reader of the “old school” (someone with wide-ranging interests and a willingness to...
A Great Double Barrel Shotgun That’s Affordable
With the Autumn, Fabarm is filling a hole in the shotgun market with an eminently satisfying double barrel shotgun that's affordable. It’s a peculiar thing, but for many years, newly made, well-constructed double barrel shotguns have been as scarce as the legendary...
Perspectives On Hunting Myself
I, as often as not, enjoy the day when nothing happens, like a nothing day I spent on a deer stand. A friend of mine told me that an old wrangler in Montana had expressed it best when he said "the thing that a man hunts when he hunts is himself." I don't know when...
MTM CASE-GARD’s The Bull Rifle Rest
MTM Case-Gard has made a name for itself with innovative polymer-based solutions for shooting and hunting enthusiasts. Now, it expands its shooting support system offerings with The Bull rifle rest. Built similar in design to the company's popular K-Zone shooting...
Nosler Introduces Carbon Chassis Hunter Rifle
Nosler Inc. recently announcd the new Carbon Chassis Hunter, Nosler’s first chassis rifle system. This rifle provides benefits that you’d expect from Nosler including V-block bedding, LOP and comb adjustments and detachable magazine with AICS compatibility that come...
SAUER 100 Rifles Feature H-S Precision Stocks
J.P. Sauer and Sohn now offers SAUER 100 LWT (lightweight) and Pantera XT rifles with H-S Precision stocks. These are the first SAUER rifles available with the technically advanced American-made H-S Precision stock featuring a 7075-aluminum bedding block with Kevlar,...
Fiocchi Poised to Knock Down Big Game
Presented in a wide range of the most popular hunting calibers, Fiocchi Knock Down blends premium components with a precision-engineered monolithic bullet design for decisive terminal performance on big game. Part of Fiocchi's EnviroShield technology, Knock Down...
New 400 Legend from Winchester
Hunters who are required to use straight-wall cartridges or who just want a hard-hitting big bore chambering can now add the 400 Legend to their list of choices. The 400 Legend ballistics make it an optimum choice for any hunter who wants a cartridge with moderate...
New Savage Rifles in 400 Legend
Savage Arms is one of the first riflemakers to partner with Winchester Ammunition to bring deer hunters several rifles chambered in 400 Legend. The new hard-hitting yet mildly recoiling chambering means new opportunities for big game hunters across the country. Savage...
Does It Still Happen?
Words and values were their greatest legacy — the outdoors their greatest gift. Tell me. Do kids somewhere still grow up with Cochise, Robin Hood and William Tell, rather than the Terminator and Robo-Cop? Do they still forge blood-brother pacts with the Ogalala Sioux?...
Chef Teaches Savoring Wild Game
“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 took him...
Back from the Brink
I now have my own tale of a brush with death. While the pages of Sporting Classics magazine are filled with tales of near-death battles between man and various beasts, I now have my own tale of a brush with death. No, I did not get charged by a Cape buffalo, trampled...
A Monster in Tigerland
Hunters and natives join forces to end a cattle-killer’s reign of terror.
Francis Lee Jaques Shape of Things
It has been suggested that Lee Jaques was the first American bird artist to put his subjects into the landscape, not merely against it. Francis Lee Jaques grew up on the Kansas prairie, fascinated by the myriad delights of nature. When he wasn't helping on the family...
McKenna Quinn: Elegant Ladies Outdoor Apparel
20% Off Limited Time Only! Made in Texas, McKenna Quinn is the premier shop for women's hunting and fishing apparel. Designed for comfort and functionality these top quality products are perfect for the sporting enthusiast both on and off the field. Click Here to View...
Old Timer
He didn't look 80 years or more; he had the timeless quality of vigorous old age, the look of extended youth often seen on the faces of old men who have preserved some boy thoughts, particularly boy thoughts upon nature... Mill and I had finished our sandwiches and...
How Dogs Tell Time
Yes, dogs can tell time. Unless you’ve been living under a rock or deep inside a cave, it’s a well-known fact that dogs can tell time. I know that every morning between 6 and 7am, it’s time to eat. My empty stomach gives me the clue. Then around 10 or 10:30am, I go...
Dorsal Fins On the Cape
Was that a great white that swam by in the Cape Cod darkness?
In Silver Light: Painter Chet Reneson
The master who refuses to yield.
Luther Kelly Hall
“When fishing, we each have our own moments of terror, drama, introspection, and comedy.”
Sporting Classics TV with Chris Dorsey Premiere and Book Signing at New York Beretta Gallery May 3
Beretta Gallery USA is hosting an exclusive premiere screening of Sporting Classics TV with Chris Dorsey at their New York Gallery on May 3rd, 2023. The premiere of next season's hit Outdoor Channel series will celebrate the history and excitement of a classic driven...
Barbara Marks
Marks reflect culture, geography, and wildlife in her paintings and sculptures.
Shawn McAvoy
Sculptures that capture a deep respect for the natural world with every detail.
Vertical Gun Racks
This long gun rack fits all standard rifles, shotguns, muzzle loaders, ARs, AKs, scoped guns, BB guns, and airsoft guns. Great for display or concealment and easy access, these gun racks are the perfect gun storage and space saving solution. Made in the USA, the...
Wyoming Finest: William G. Smith
Paintings by the equality state’s favorite son.
The Rise of Hipster Hunters
A new brand of sportsmen has begun taking to the field. Hunting embodies many ideas — tradition, camaraderie, stewardship, self-reliance — but it has never placed much emphasis on staying abreast with movements or trends beyond the scope of the outdoors. And this, in...
The Power of Remembering
Comes a time when remembering is about all a man can do.
The Great Takeover
Dogs are prone to move in — and take over. Ever since your hooman ancestors — the cave dwellers — pushed aside the huge mastodon skin and invited my ancestors — the huge wolf — into your caves, dogs like me have moved in and taken over. It’s debatable whether those...
Classic Alaska Charters
Typical June Family Trip with Classic Alaska Charters... Booking now for 2024! SPONSORED CONTENT: Classic Alaska Charters has long been the sportsman’s best choice for affordable overnight Alaska fishing charters in Southeast Alaska’s Ketchikan and Misty Fiords...
Lowcountry Tales
A tangled tale from the Carolina Lowcountry where writing runs deep in the blood. Half-moon of July, a low tide at noon, glaring blight sun and nary a breeze to ruffle the waters of Port Royal Sound. Piney islands shimmer in distant heat waves, surf grumbles far...
Suspense and Singing in the Bushveld
This was not our first safari, but this one was far more complex. We would hunt Cape buffalo, our first endeavor of such magnitude. Situations can quickly get out of hand when hunting Cape buffalo. This possibility is particularly enhanced when the pursuit is...
Binding An Elephant
After long days of hunting with no luck, it finally took a bit of native sorcery to make the difference on an elephant hunt. The flight from Atlanta to Johannesburg provides those unwilling to embrace the charms of Ambien with ample opportunity to think. In point of...
Summer is on the Horizon
Warm days, lots of wading rivers to fly fish and being outdoors are soon to come. While winter seems to be dragging on and on, and the temperature was a single-digit number outside my house — known as The Cameron House to many — the other morning, but I smell summer...
Eastern Panther – Myth, Ghost, Legend
The Lowcountry panther entered my dreams and my life. Haunting me when I slept, quickening my pulse and step when I was alone in the swamps come sundown. Daytimes, the Old Man looked off into middle distance. Nights, he gazed deep into campfire flames. He held us...
Tyee and the Salmon of 30+ Pounds
Tyee is the Indian name for a salmon of 30 pounds or more. No one has come very close to the mark. It seemed to make sense. From the time of the early Indians, Barkley Sounders have called a 15-pound or better chinook salmon a "smiley." Maybe the smiles would come...
The Profound Impact of Hunting
Hunting sculpts intrigue into incomparable adventure, places us center stage, and folds us into the metamorphosis. At the New York office of Blount, Reynolds, and Poirer, the torch of jurisprudence will pass to eager young associates for a spell. The senior partners...
Overly Excited for Bird Hunts
I get excited when I hunt, smell and see birds. Doves, for example, really excite me. There’s lots of shooting, often lots of birds flying and sometimes birds falling when Mike finally hits one on the wing. I get so excited I often start spinning around in...
John Bryan is Wild in Wood
If John Bryan was looking for the easy way out, he never would have tried to make it as a sporting artist in wood. But then again, this is a guy whose favorite quarry is the ruffed grouse, whose idea of fun and games is slashing through thickets of alder and oak in...
NEW! Thunder Without Rain By Thomas McIntyre
New Release! Click Here to Buy Now “When you hear thunder without rain–it is the buffalo approaching.” This line from a Yoruba hunting poem conveys the magnificent power of the African buffalo, also called “God’s cattle.” Hunter and writer Thomas McIntyre has pursued...
The Odyssey of An Artist
"From the very beginning, being an artist was my first choice." You can tour the most discriminating galleries, visit the most thoughtfully-curated exhibitions. As you walk these clean, well-lighted places, you stop, as much from duty as interest, to study the artwork...
An Old Parker Finds New Life
To restore or not, that is the question. How many times have each of us thought about having a fine old gun refinished only to be cautioned that having it reblued or restocked will diminish its value? Several years ago at a small gun show in a church social hall, I...
Rambling Boy and an Island in the Sun
He was a rambling boy. They called him Kid Carolina. Dick Reynolds, officially Robert Joshua Reynolds Jr., born to wealth and privilege. He was the eldest son of the North Carolina tobacco magnate of the same name, the creator of Prince Albert pipe tobacco and Camel...
Seeking and Watching Huns
I like huns. Like, a lot. And bacon. While the past fall hunting season has faded, and next fall is buried behind many pages of the calendar, I still like the opportunity to go out and find birds. My new strong interest is seeking huns, alias Hungarian partridges or...
The Silent Spring of Paint Bank
Folks talk about it still. The nights were the blackest anyone could remember. But there was not a star in the sky. Mountain hollows rang with banjo music. Yet, no one could be found. Each evening at midnight the bell at Humphrey's Chapel tolled ... the rope left...