The Croc That Wouldn’t Die
I sat on the engine cowling, holding my rifle and studying the hideous design of the crocodile’s head. Then its eye opened.
Making a Martini
Custom gunmaker Ralf Martini brings out the “Best” in pre-war English and European gun designs.
Quack-Quack Candid Cameron
I admit to being an optimist. I must be to hunt with Mike because I am always hoping he shoots the bird down when I flush it. Often his errant shot misses, but I keep hunting because I know he will get his bird sooner or later — or make that sometime, har har! My eyes...
Where the Buffalo Roam
It’s possible to stick Australia’s Asiatic buffalo with a bow, but be prepared for painful stalks and saltwater crocodiles.
A Call For Africa
Three talented artists are creating a spectacular tribute to a legendary African river and its wildlife.
New! Argentina Wingshooting Past and Present
This lavishly illustrated book documents the best of Stuart Williams’ 40-year love affair with bird-hunting in Argentina. Stuart was preceded only by Hollywood actor Robert Taylor as one of hundreds of American sportsmen who have discovered the incredible, high-volume...
Luck Is Cheap Up There
Like the old song says, two out of three ain’t bad, especially on a bowhunt for elk.
How Much to Feed a Sporting Breed Puppy
Puppies are a lot of things. They’re curious, they take a lot of naps, and when they wake up they’ve got a tremendous amount of energy. They’ve got powerful appetites and are always on the lookout for the next meal. But there’s more to feeding a puppy than filling up...
Fire & Iron Damascus Steel
Modern smiths keep an ancient art alive.
Lessons from Large Pin Cushions
It’s a dangerous place outdoors. The world is full of dangers. You've got speeding cars, stinging bees, rattlesnakes that bite and more. Luckily I have Mike to walk the trails ahead of me and check for dangers — much like a very slow bodyguard, har har! Once, while...
The Elephant on the Mountain
Only eight short paces would separate the aggressive young rogue and his pursuers when they finally met in the dark of an African night.
What Are You Pointing At?
If the noses of gundogs are so incredibly discerning, why do they point so many things that aren’t birds?
Saskatchewan for Epic Waterfowl Hunting
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey to Saskatchewan for Epic Waterfowl Hunting The world’s most watched outdoor television series heads to Saskatchewan at the beginning of the waterfowl migration in this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey on Outdoor...
Pilot
Aviator, treasure hunter, sportsman, and fearless rescuer, Hall Watters was as unmatched as he was widely unrecognized.
Summer Swims are Super!
Unfortunately for some dogs, summer means a prolonged down time. Summer is the time to explore everything — and get out there. My summer plans make up a long list of to-do things. On my list are fishing, hiking, camping, running, digging out gophers, chasing...
Nymph On The Bitterroot River
Young love, it seems, can survive even the worst of hard knocks.
The Legend of Bwana Cottar
The first American-born professional hunter in Africa, Charles Cottar would survive three leopard maulings and near-fatal attacks by elephant and buffalo to found the First Family of Safari.
Creating a Painting: John Seerey-Lester
Many things go into the creation of a painting.
The Last Of the Outlaw Gunners
Or they were going to be, until a gator got in the way.
Ever Ancient Ever New: The Still-Life
If any art is truly timeless, it is the still-life. The still-life does not depict a moment frozen in time, a chosen instant snatched from the temporal current, but a moment outside of time, beyond its erosive reach. There is no past or future, only an eternal...
What Is That Smell – Candid Cameron
Well, everyone has a tale of a dog that got sprayed by a skunk. Here’s my tale. Ugh. I was in the mountains scouting for grouse (OK, Mike drove me there and it was his idea). I had found several grouse as I wandered about and sniffed out the territory. This was a...
The Stare
As a dog, I have a method of communication that sends a clear message — The Stare. You hoomans have many ways to communicate — like writing, smoke signals and Morse code. I noticed, nearly all of you rarely speak any more and spend most of each day staring down into a...
A Dearth of Dreams for the Waking Outdoorsman
Remarkable, really. Not the first of my hunting or fishing companions, even the zaniest, admits to regular outdoor dreams. I'd suspect subterfuge, collusion, even amnesia. Dreams do have a short shelf life. How many can you remember from last month? Or, for that...
Hemingway and the Dragons
"He'll make a fine trophy," Ernest declared, dragging the immense reptile from the vegetation. Too much sun, drink and time on the choppy sea had left John and Peter weak and lethargic. Swimming toward the distant beach the two men found each stroke to be a struggle,...
Sporting Classics TV Season 4
The world’s most watched outdoor television series returns for its fourth season on Outdoor Channel. Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey is a joint venture between Dorsey Pictures, the largest producer of outdoor lifestyle programming in history and Sporting Classics...
The Bear and Lion Man
Lily has been viewed both as a legendary hunter and a shameless poacher. In 1908 residents of Coahuila, Mexico, lived in fear of a large male grizzly that had laid claim to a stretch of road leading into the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Vaqueros in the region avoided...
Portraits From the Deep – Guy Harvey
When I first set out to photograph these splendid creatures in their natural element, I realized the need to develop my own special methods. My heart was racing, my eyes wide in anticipation as the cloud of bubbles cleared... and there it was, silhouetted against the...
Firmo Fracassi – Renaissance Man
Using only simple tools, Italy's Firmo Fracassi achieves astonishing detail in his bulino-style engravings. If suffering is a muse for artistic genius, it came early in the life of Firmo Fracassi. Born in 1939 in Tavernole, a village nestled in Italy's alpine hills...
Anglers in Bolivia to Strike Gold
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...
Young Man and the Sea
Exhausted and dehydrated, Stanczyk felt as if he had been watching it all in a dream. Richard Stanczyk grew up on the water. His childhood home in Miami was located adjacent to a canal that led to the ocean. The salty brine got into his veins early in his life, became...
A Growling In the Rain
Sensing something wasn't right, the lion popped his head out from behind the tree. Instantly, his big eyes blazed like coals and he issued a deep, rumbling growl. It was a hot and dry September day in Tanzania, just south of the little village of Loiborserrit. We left...
The Good Life
Crisp, clear air and cold water are the sources of life. It is a life implemented with guns and flyrods, populated by beautiful birds and dogs and fish stippled with rose-moles bright as neon. It is a life of vast grassy space where dogs can run to their heart's...
Eyes On the Sky
I am very focused on the skies overhead. While a majority of the hunting I am involved in requires looking ahead at eye level or on the ground for pheasants, grouse and such, there are periods when I need to look up. Eyes on the sky, if you will, when waterfowl...
Horned Moon – One Last Time
Willard, it's time. I want to track one more mountain lion, maybe kill it. I've got this feeling! Somewhere in the forest came the warbling song of a night bird. Melodic, sweet sounds, but urgent and unanswered. It was quiet after that, except for the gentle breeze...
Zane Grey – High Seas Prophet
So what can we say of Zane Grey, this dentist turned novelist turned outdoor writer? He was a dentist and photography and a storyteller. He was one hell of a baseball player. He was husband and father and perpetual wanderer and a hunter and fisherman who once held...
Tigers In the Surf
Angry breakers guarded the Devil's Elbow of Padre Island's wild and remote beaches. Watch out, others had warned us, or the surf will eat you alive. Billy Sandifer, a three-tour veteran of Vietnam and now a surf-fishing guide, faced the roaring whitecaps and didn't...
In the Light
The most profound influence on color, of course, is light. Without it, a prism is little more than a chunk of glass. Northern tribes like the Inuit have many words to describe what most of us simply call "snow." The irony of such a vocabulary lapse — one English...
The Cameron House
As Mike explained who he was and pointed up the hill to our home, the woman then exclaimed “oh, you live with Cameron!” I have written several times in the past about how dogs have plans to move in and take over your house and life — just as I have done at Mike’s...
An Ocean View
Billfishing was the perfect pursuit for a man endlessly intrigued with saltwater watching. Saltwater at first sight was Al Barnes' epiphany. Its many manifestations dazzled the boy newly arrived at the fishing village of Port Isabel on the Texas Coast and became the...
Wren & Ivy Father’s Day Sale
Father's Day Sale: 20% off all Wren & Ivy products! Founded out of a common love for the field, Mississippi-based Wren & Ivy specializes in gear that marries classic style with modern function for the sporting lifestyle. Click Here to View All Legacy Gun...
Maybe You Do Some Fetching
If a dog goes on point or keeps moving away from where you are, take note... Once Mike and I were hunting a huge field where soybeans had been grown but had been harvested. OK, I was hunting and Mike was dragging along behind. He needs to keep up, hunting is a...
William Cornwallis Harris – Africa’s Audubon
Though engaging as a literary craftsman, Harris is even more appealing as an artist. The game-rich veld of southern Africa was his studio; lions, elephants, and even a now extinct species of wild horse were his subjects. Although he would spend less than a year...
Artist of the Adirondacks – A.F. Tait
Tait worked hard at his craft, his sketches, his technique. It was this essential labor that helped him, when his imagination called, rise to the occasion. American landscape and genre painting of the late 19th century, in which Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait excelled, is...
Bedtime Story
The bear pounced on him like a dog on a gopher and was soon shaking and mauling both Earl and the canvas. Some of the best hunting in North America is to be found south of the Mexican border along the Sierra Madre Mountains, from western Chihuahua and extending down...
Clear Visions and Moody Hues
"I'm not trying to record history or paint from an historical perspective. I don't particularly care about the rib on an over-under. I'm capturing a mood." If James B. Robinson wrote scores for movies, which he does as an offbeat hobby, the mix would be eclectic....
Eukanuba’s Puppy Pro
Premium Nutrition for Your Active Puppy Eukanuba, a trail-blazer in performance sporting and working dog nutrition, has created their best puppy nutrition yet — the Eukanuba Premium Performance Puppy Pro. This chow is specially formulate with optimal levels of protein...
The Perfect Fetch-Point
Hunting and birds are the things that make life enjoyable. I'll make it easier on Mike, har har! Once while on a dove hunt, Mike made two quick shots with his over-under shotgun and two doves fell from the sky. Any historians reading here, this needs to be included in...
What To Feed a Sporting Breed Puppy
SPONSORED CONTENT: The puppy stage is over in what can seem like the blink of an eye. That means you have only a short window to support a puppy’s development. Feeding a puppy food that provides nutrition with comprehensive benefits from the start is key. What you...
Jack O’Connor’s 7×57 Mauser Rifle Auction
Jack O’Connor’s Engraved 7x57 Mauser Rifle Now At Benefit Auction Crafted in 1954 by legendary gunmaker Fred Wells for Jack O’Connor and backed with rock-solid provenance, the auction of this important rifle provides an opportunity to own a historic firearm while...
The Lunatic Express
The gruesome exploits of the maneaters, together with those of Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson...form one of the most fantastic tales in the annals of African adventure. In the 1890s Britain's far-flung empire covered a quarter of the globe, including a number...