Troutalope
Genus: Oncorkynchus pronghornii Habitat: Wide-open spaces inland American West Life History: Contrary to common opinion, the troutalope is not rare. In fact, thousands of people have a stuffed one in the garage, bagged with other incredible junk headed to the...
Joshua Slocum: Lost At Sea
His interests were narrow but deep—deep as the deep blue sea. Joshua Slocum was born to a sea-faring life in 1844, “on a cold spot on coldest North Mountain on a cold February 20,” back when ships were wood and men were iron. His granddaddy was an American Quaker, a...
Capturing the Essence of Wildlife: Zoltán Boros
London gunmaker John Rigby & Co. has added distinguished wildlife artist Zoltán Boros to its esteemed art department. Hailing from Subotica, Serbia, Zoltán's journey into the realm of hunting-themed art began during his secondary school years, fueled by a passion...
The Rain
Someone once wrote that “rain is the oldest sound to reach the porches of man’s ear.” I like the sentence and I like the sentiment. And I like rain. I like to hunt in it, fish in it and just walk around in it. I like the sound of rain, the feel of it and the soft...
Roosters with a Moonwalker
This week, Sporting Classics TV walks the pheasant fields of South Dakota with a man who walked on the moon! We’re joined by General Charles Duke who is one of four living moonwalkers and General Walt Boomer who led all Marines in the Gulf War in a spectacular...
John Seerey-Lester’s Top 20 Paintings
The artist and author selects 20 of his favorite paintings and explains why.
Adventures with Jim Belushi
You never know what will happen when hunting and fishing with this comedian and his friends.
Swarovski Optik Special Offer Extended
SPONSORED CONTENT Swarovski Optik has extended its special offer for SLC and EL binoculars. Now through the end of December, you can save $277 on an SLC 15x56 and up to $445 on an EL 8.5x42 or 10x42. When hunting, the smallest details are crucial and hunters around...
Wren & Ivy 2023 Collection
As the amber leaves of autumn cascade, so does Wren & Ivy’s newest collection. Discover products crafted with passion, echoing the elegance of yesteryears while embracing the conveniences of today. Just like those cherished moments before dawn on a hunt, this...
Negrini Black Friday Sale
For a limited time take 15% off select Negrini cases! With over 40 years of experience making the best quality gun cases, Negrini Cases of Italy is the leader in ultra-light air travel case technology. Discover the Negrini Gun Case difference. ATA approved, Made in...
Confessions of a Lead-Slinging Luddite
What if I told you more white-tailed deer have been taken with an 1894 30-30 Winchester than all the other sundry deer hunting cartridges combined? What if I told you that you could hunt worldwide with a battery of only three rifles, a 22 Long Rifle from 1887, a 7...
Kings Game: Epic Driven Boar in Hungary
You can hunt wild boar on six continents... but there is no place on Earth that celebrates the art of shooting swine quite like Hungary... a nation rich in both hunting traditions and opportunities including red stag, fallow, and roe deer. This week's episode of...
The Rodney Dangerfield of Gamebirds
If I may indulge in the slightest understatement, I’ve been around a while. And I’ve seen a few things. Not as many as some, but more than most. I’ve been lucky enough to have gunned birds all over the world, and there aren’t a great many species that I haven’t hunted...
Spirits of the Forest
The bull appears to be staring straight through me. I can smell his muskiness, and I’m thinking that he must be able to smell me too. He continues to walk toward me as if he is going to greet me and introduce me to his herd. He’s bigger than I ever imagined and walks...
SC Wildlife Art for Sale
These unique wildlife art prints and originals are from the private collection of Chuck Wechsler, editor of Sporting Classics for 35 years. Each piece includes framing as shown and is custom packaged to ensure safe delivery. Click Here to View All African Lions at...
EP 154: Campfire Talk with Luke and Larry
Click Here to Listen Was a time when having turkey for Thanksgiving dinner meant heading to the woods and harvesting your own bird. Luke and Larry recall some their early Thanksgivings adventures and how using rifle and bow turned lean Fall “woods” turkeys into a...
Venison Osso Buco Recipe
This venison osso buco recipe is a new, tasty way to prepare tender venison hams without having to grind or cube the meat. While my preferences when it comes to venison tend to run to cube steak, backstrap (too bad the whole deer isn’t backstrap) and ground meat,...
The First Time it Comes for You
Oh, man, it was big. Actually, he was big, a mature, bull Cape buffalo. If you knocked off the tickbirds and caught him as he stepped out of the shower, he was a light heavyweight of 1,800 pounds. That number hadn’t really meant anything to me until I’d beheld him...
Tucker Smith: Painting the Wild Winds
One enduring memory I have is of a silhouetted figure, the outline of a cowboy hat, the rangy gesture of a man, hand extended, holding what appeared to be a magic wand, reaching toward a small square surface tilted upright on an easel. Steadily, as clouds churned...
EP: 153 Campfire Talk with Luke and Larry
Click Here to Listen This week Luke and Larry talk about their latest book release "Campfire Talk" available at SportingClassicsStore.com. Signed by Larry Weishuhn and Luke Clayton Click Here to Order Today Featuring 41 chapters, you'll find yourself sitting around...
The Passage
July 14th, 4:16 a.m. Dear Tom, When I first laid eyes on the old rifle back in the fall of ’54 it was already pretty used up, at least on the outside. On the inside it was still in good working order. I guess Dad figured it was high time for his boy to fire a gun for...
Big Bad Bass
In the mysterious jungle rivers of Papua New Guinea swims a fish of frightening strength and size - a fish that can snap 80-pound mono like wet spaghetti and shatter the biggest mega-plug rod. And if you're not careful, it might even pull you overboard! After five...
Lowcountry Magic: Return to Brays Island
This week, Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey returns to Brays Island to celebrate the sporting life in the Lowcountry. Host Chris Dorsey and Brays Island neighbor General Walter Boomer invite Dan Flavin, Walther Arms' Jens Krogh and Sporting Classics' Wayne Nanney...
NEW! Wingshooting: The Art & Science
Wingshooting: The Art & Science A Bird Hunter's Professional Reference to Shotguns & Wingshooting Click Here to Order Today Bryan Bilinski, a seasoned, successful gunfitter and instructor in his renowned Fieldsport Wingshooting Schools, offers you all the...
Mollygrubs Messer: Of Pointers and Polecats
The Misadventures Of Mollygrubs Messer Episode 9: Of Pointers And Polecats Mischance, malarkey, and being the target of adolescent misfortune ran through the teenage years of Mollygrubs Messer like colorful thread binding the top of tow sacks. On one occasion,...
Weatherby Orion
As far back as I can remember, the Weatherby name has been associated with high-quality rifles. Roy Weatherby was one of the great innovators of his day, and an early proponent of super-high-velocity rifles. That’s how the Weatherby name was made! Roy is long gone...
SEWE 2024 Featured Artist
Kathleen Dunphy, Northern-California based artist, has been named the Featured Artist for SEWE 2024. Dunphy’s original piece, Family Outing, has been selected as the SEWE 2024 Featured Painting and is the subject of the official SEWE 2024 poster. The piece will be on...
Henry Donates Over $1 Million for Silver Anniversary
Gunmaker’s charitable branch, Guns for Great Causes, aims to give back and balance the narrative about firearm manufacturers. Last year, Henry Founder & CEO Anthony Imperato pledged to donate $1 million through its Guns for Great Causes charitable arm to celebrate...
Africa Dreaming, Africa Planning
An African safari puts a historic spin on rifle and ammo selection. Seasoned hunters with whitetails, mule deer, elk, moose and bears under their belts begin looking askance at their 270s, 7mms, 300s and 338 magnums. They need something bigger. They need something...
The Spotted Hyena
The Spotted Hyena: A Study of Predation and Social Behavior Click Here to Order Today In this seminal study, Hans Kruuk redefines the image of the spotted hyena, not as a common scavenger, but as a complex matriarchal predator with links to human evolution. The...
2023 Guns & Hunting Issue
Our special 2023 Guns & Hunting issue is out now and features an amazing array of articles on fine shotguns and rifles, both from past and present. Click Here to View the Free Digital Edition Follow Stephen Wesbrook on a two-part series of American Hammerless...
Venison Loin Steaks with Shrimp Gravy over Garlic Cheese Grits
The following recipe is from Jim Casada's newest Venison Cookbook: From Field to Table. Featuring 400 field- and kitchen-tested recipes, along with dozens of sauces and marinades, that span the spectrum of venison cookery. From traditional favorites to gourmet and...
2023 Premier Firearm & Sportsman Auction
Richmond Auctions welcomes you to our 2023 Premier Firearms & Sportsman's Auction. This sale features nearly 170 lots of world class firearms including highly engraved shotguns, rifles and handguns from Browning, Winchester, Colt, A.H. Fox, Smith & Wesson,...
The John Wayne Rifle: Winchester Model 92
John Wayne was a man of many westerns, but there was only one rifle for the Duke.
Levering Interest
Rediscover what six or seven generations of American outdoorsmen enjoyed for 150 years. The all-American lever-action rifle. Long may it reign. We Americans are delightfully inventive. We came up with baseball, basketball, the Boy Scouts, Broadway musicals, jazz,...
Never Give Up
Feather serves as an object lesson in the art of not only living with a disability, but achieving goals that the rest of the world tries to tell you are unattainable.
Up Front
It may take a right to the jaw or a secret whisper, but defending your honor (and saving your skin) is never easy when your arch enemy is bigger and faster than you are. It's not easy to be a native son of Texas, a Good Ol’ Boy, and not care a thing about horses....
RIA: Premier Firearms Auction Dec. 6th-8th
Scarce Sub-Gauge Selections Rock Island Auction Company’s December 6 - 8 Premier Auction in Bedford, Texas unveils a stunning selection of sporting arms from the benches of history's finest craftsmen, including a breathtaking trio of factory engraved Purdey & Sons...
MOLLYGRUBS PART 8
Urination Tribulation Among the many hobbies of Mollygrubs Messer’s father was gardening. He found it relaxing and a welcome escape from a spouse who wasn’t about to dirty her dainty hands with manual toil in the good earth (or pretty much anything else, because truth...
Unveiling the Benelli LUPO
Unveiling the Benelli LUPO: A Precision Revolution in Rifles SPONSORED CONTENT: In the world of firearms, the name Benelli commands respect and is synonymous with innovation, reliability and cutting-edge technology. The Benelli LUPO rifle is a testament to this...
Ready to Go
As I have mentioned numerous times in these columns, I’m a dog on the go. I stand ready to move and head outdoors at the drop of a hat, or make that the mention of key words. While Mike thinks I’m just lying on the couch and sleeping, I’m observing and listening for...
Sermon from the Mount
Life had become intolerable, but Dan McMurry was putting forth his best face. Only two other creatures knew the extent of his misery. Dan didn’t count his wife as one of those creatures. She and Dan were in different stages of healing, different stages of denial, and...
MOLLYGRUBS PART 7
Bear Scare Notwithstanding painful and humiliating memories of an early Boy Scouts endeavor that landed Mollygrubs in a world of woe thanks to turning poison ivy leaves into ersatz toilet paper, he remained a loyal, enthusiastic member of the local troop. That was...
The Perfect Words
How he hoped that his son's first hunt would be just as memorable as his own 30 years ago. And now, as a chilling wind sliced through the canyon, the perfect words to calm the boy just wouldn't come. But something else would. Big blue eyes met mine; his lip began to...
Silencer Central Releases BUCK 30
Latest from Silencer Central and Buck Commander - BUCK 30 Suppressor Silencer Central has introduced the all new BUCK 30 suppressor in partnership with the Buck Commander team. With the classic deer hunter in mind Silencer Central designed the BUCK 30 as a durable,...
Swarovski Z8i+
Z8i+ — See more. Act faster. Enjoy everything the Swarovski Z8I+ has to offer along with a large and more feasibly obtainable eyebox for fast sighting. With a short zoom rotation of 160 degrees and the ergonomic TL+ throw lever, available in black and orange, this...
Cold Mornings on the Little Choptank
It’s icy on the river, but with geese hovering above, it’s a mighty good place to be.
The Poet Laureate of Turkey Hunting
An overview of Tom Kelly’s published work.
I Will Give These Pups My All
As we grow old together, I’ll be there to gather the joy from every moment of their lives.
The Art of Clay McGaughy
Paintings by San Antonio’s premier outdoor artist.