Something for the First Time
A fella posed a question the other day that caused me pause... He asked, “When’s the last time you did something for the first time?” Not when’s the last time you did something again for the first time in a long time. But the last time you did something for...
Send Us Ticks! – Missouri
With deer hunting under way in Missouri, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and A.T. Still University in Kirksville are asking deer hunters to save ticks they find on harvested deer and mail them to the University. The ticks will be used for a scientific...
Vermont’s Hidden Gem: Dan Morgan, Gunsmith
I first heard of Vermont's hidden Gem, Dan Morgan, twelve years ago at Dave Tilden’s venue when the beavertail forend on my Philadelphia Fox BE suddenly became loose. A gunner finds many opportunities to hunt and shoot in Vermont. Waterfowlers gun both sides of the...
FOLLOW FIRE RESTRICTIONS – Montana
Although the fading hours of daylight may suggest that we are in the heart of autumn and moving rapidly towards winter, fire danger across parts of north central Montana and especially along the Rocky Mountain Front remains high, and hunters and all other outdoor...
A Stillness by the Pool – Bob Kuhn
The Landing of a Wildlife Masterwork Once Belonging to T. Boone Pickens Now Available for the Public to Savor. This is Bob Kuhn's elusive tiger. Our eyes are drawn first inexorably to the carnivore paused peacefully in the aftermath of a kill. There is something...
Some Pretty Good Dogs – Scott Linden
There are plenty of canine rock stars, field trial money-makers, legendary bird dogs memorialized in literature, magazine stories and on hall of fame walls. But I’m a man of simple tastes, so those dogs that do yeoman’s duty are the ones that nudge their way into my...
Great Dogs in History — SALUTE!
Great dogs in history are my favorite. The other night I was lying on the couch and channel surfing when I suddenly heard a hound howling. Then, on the TV show, I spotted a Montana lion hunting dog, Capone, up in a tree. He had climbed up high in the tree’s...
MDC Master Conservationist Award
The Missouri Conservation Commission and Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) congratulate Mike Szydlowski of Columbia on being the latest recipient of the MDC Master Conservationist award. Szydlowski is a resource professional and the K-12 Science Coordinator...
Best Prescription Eyewear
We’re living in the golden age of prescription sporting lenses, with a litany of options to suit just about any activity in all light conditions. Here, then, is a selection high-performance glasses to fit any budget. Whether you’re tracking a clay target as it...
One of a Kind – Regis Darne
From its sliding breech to its retractable sling, this graceful French beauty stands as an objet d'art in a world of lookalikes. Truly, one of a kind. Guns, like most tools, evolve in almost the same way as animals do. And, in the same way that we tend...
Don’t Call It a Classic: SA-35
This reimagined world-renowned design for modern use has had many names in its century-long history. The Springfield Armory SA-35 gives today’s shooters a modern take on a revered design modeled on one of the most popular pistols in small arms history. With subtle but...
Mossberg Expands Pistol Line: MC2sc
Mossberg Expands Pistol Line with MC2sc Optics-Ready Micro-Compact Mossberg has expanded its popular MC2 lineup with a new micro-compact 9mm: the MC2sc. With its double-stack magazines, the compact-profile MC2sc offers increased capacity but is comfortably sized for...
Mossberg Announces 590S Pump-Action Line
O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc., America’s oldest family-owned firearms manufacturer in the United States, continues its legacy of industry firsts with the introduction of the 590S Series of 12-gauge pump-actions; capable of cycling 1.75, 2.75 and 3-inch shotshells...
New tM35 Thermal Imaging Clip-On
THE NEW tM35 FROM SWAROVSKI OPTIK – Detect. Decide. Hunt. ANNOUNCING the new tM35 thermal imaging clip-on device from SWAROVSKI OPTIK NORTH AMERICA, a subsidiary of the Austrian based company. Hunters can count on proven SWAROVSKI OPTIK quality with the tM35. For...
Transported into the Wild Light
Painter Rod Crossman, considered one of the greatest sporting artists of our time, connects us to holy outdoor places that span generations. This is how we are transported into the wildlight. Think about your greatest fishing memory, the one that, like a fine...
Colorado’s Newest State Park
Governor's letter to community announcing Colorado’s newest state park. Hello Colorado! I am so excited to announce Colorado’s newest state park located at Sweetwater Lake near the border of Garfield County and Eagle County, only about 15 miles off Highway 70. With...
Fruitful Blessing – Dispatch
My boss, Sporting Classics' Editorial Director, Scott E. Mayer, had inquired about us going fishing on a Friday after work, a few weeks back. He added that we would be doing so at a pond located in the backyard of our Publisher, Duncan Grant. I humbly accepted. What a...
Good Waterfowl Season For Texas Hunters
With millions of ducks in the Central Flyway and promising conditions in many parts of the state, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists suggest these factors could indicate a good waterfowl season for Texas Hunters. For the second straight year, the...
A Place for ALL those Upland Decals! – DIY
At some point we ALL run out of room to place our decals on. What to do. If you are like me and have an ever-growing stash of decals, then do I have a solution for you. A DIY on a place for all those upland decals. In the early 1980s it was popular for school kids to...
Time To Hunt – Cameron the Weim Returns!
Well, in case you have been pulling a Rip Van Winkle and sleeping under a large tree, take a look at your calendar now. Hunting seasons are open. Time to hunt! Or to be more specific bird hunting seasons are open, across America. The list of birds to find, point,...
SC Store Deluxe Book Sale
Use code DELUXE15 during checkout to save. Beat the rush this season and save 15% off your total order on all books, including our deluxe limited editions! Each of our leather-bound limited edition books are signed and individually numbered by the author. Hurry sale...
Arizona Big Game Super Raffle
The Arizona Big Game Super Raffle is bringing back their special fall raffle that will give one lucky hunter a unique bear, mountain lion, javelina hunt package. The Arizona Big Game Super Raffle (AZBGSR) received three additional tags again this year, which the...
Mysteries on the Water’s Edge – The Creek
Even the smallest stream, skinny enough to step across, carries unsolved mysteries on the water's edge, drawing adventurous young’uns. I grew up in the heart of South Carolina. Halfway between the Upcountry and the Lowcountry. Right on the fall line, where...
Battle of Sugar Point – Wild Rice Shoot-Out
They were among the most peaceable Indians, the papers all said, but they had a grievance. This is the story of the Battle of Sugar Point. Wild rice. It’s good alright, mighty good, cooked long and slow in moose broth, with maybe morel mushrooms and...
Redemption – Finally, One for the Books!
Larry Weishuhn recalls how he redeemed himself from the buck that got away. Of all places! The biggest whitetail buck I have ever seen was standing 50 yards off of Highway 2 between Edmonton to Athabasca. He was huge of body and antler — wide, tall, massive —...
Staying on Course
With fall hunting seasons quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to visit this week about scouting and learning land that you are not familiar with. For a quarter century, I made my living first working on and later running survey field crews. I remember...
OPERATION GAME THIEF PROTECTS PENNSYLVANIA WILDLIFE
Pennsylvania Game Commission Encourages YOU to Report Wildlife Crimes. Here's How: Poachers are thieves. Help us catch them. The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Operation Game Thief (OGT) program protects wild birds and wild mammals by encouraging those with...
SEWE 2022: Celebrating 40 Years
Tickets will go on sale October 9th for SEWE 2022, which will be held February 17-20 After canceling its event in 2021, Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, will return next year to celebrate 40 years in 2022, February 17 - 20...
Henry’s Guns for Great Causes Keeps Making an Impact
When firearms and “Made in the USA” are the topics being discussed by hunters, recreational shooters and firearms collectors from coast to coast, one company stands out—Henry Repeating Arms. SPONSORED CONTENT This firearms manufacturer leads in lever-actions and...
King of the Beasts – Speed, With Spots
Wayne van Zwoll discusses the real "King of the Beasts", the African Leopard and those who dedicated their lives to hunting them. I shook his left hand. There was nothing below his right elbow. He was strong, an aging giant six-foot-five, with a raw-boned frame to...
Lessons Handed Down to a Son – The Borrowed Gun
Peter Ryan on lessons handed down to a son. Our son, Jamie, is 10 years old. Today, after much pleading, he is with me at a cabin on the South Island of New Zealand, a long way from anywhere. There at the head of the valley the snow looms high overhead, waterfalls...
Canadian Woman to Pay $60k for Feeding Bears 180 Eggs a Week
A woman from Whistler has been ordered to pay $60,000 after officials said she violated the Wildlife Act in British Columbia. In July 2018, the Conservation Officer Service (COS), a public safety agency that specializes in the prevention of human-wildlife conflict,...
The Literature of Turkey Hunting
Jim Casada contemplates the art and romance in the literature of turkey hunting and the world of sporting, wildlife literature at large. The malady of bibliomania exhibits varying symptoms. Some collectors are perfectly happy to do little more than gaze on lovely yet...
Kansas Reminds Hunters to use Non-Toxic Shot for Dove and Waterfowl
With the ongoing ammo shortage, we know hunters are having trouble finding non-toxic shot to take advantage of dove and waterfowl hunting seasons. Non-toxic shot is required for dove hunting on DNR properties by state law, and federal law requires the use of non-toxic...
Buffalo Hunt – A Tale of Two Buffs
James Stejskal details two occasions across the world where he is on the buffalo hunt and just how he went about claiming his prize. The early morning fog on the river was starting to dissipate as I stood in the waist high grass surveying the terrain ahead. I was...
Mayan Ruins – Campeche Brocket
It was hot. Horribly hot. Well over the century mark. Humidity approached the saturation point. I hate the heat! I have even less tolerance for high humidity! But there I was in the midst of both! The only stirred breeze came from the overhead slow circulating fan in...
Public Comment Encouraged on Proposed Agreements to Protect 14 Aquatic Species in Kansas
The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) seek public comments on a proposed programmatic Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances (CCAA) and programmatic Safe Harbor Agreement (SHA) designed for 14 aquatic...
Chris Dorsey Hunting Bobwhite Quail
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey Visits Award-Winning Rio Piedra Plantation as part of SCI’s ‘Share the Impact’ Auction Officials from Dorsey Pictures announce that this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey - the most watched outdoor TV program in...
How to Preserve a Grouse Fan
Preserving the fan is a cost-effective way to commemorate the hunt for years to come. Here are six steps to creating a grouse fan display. A ruffed grouse fan achieves the practical beauty that the woods demand. This barred rutter allows the bird to swerve through the...
Old Flintlock: A Sporting Scribe for the Ages
No writer has sung the South’s sporting song with the same alluring sweetness as Archibald Hamilton Rutledge. Known to family and friends as “Old Flintlock,” he was a proud son of the southern soil with roots that reached deep into the Carolina Lowcountry’s past. His...
Hunting of Old – Lonely Journey Backward
Tony Kinton details the ups and downs, reliefs and frustrations and the total fulfilment of experience that comes with the hunting of old. Obstinacy is considered poor taste. But fracturing protocol and proper behavior were not my intent. Rather, I was simply curious...
Old Man and the Sea – Ted Schnack
Ted Schnack discusses his sculpture inspired by Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea Literary Immortality. Countless writers and artists have graced the centuries, yet few and rare are those who create works so powerful they are considered true classic. True...
Chris Dorsey on Hunting Matters Podcast
Dorsey Pictures announces that Chris Dorsey appears as a guest in the latest episode of the Hunting Matters podcast and radio show to discuss myriad topics including his background in outdoor television, bringing the hunting category to mainstream audiences, and...
Best Deal for Wildlife? Buy a License.
Often overlooked in the rush of fall hunting seasons is how hunting and fishing licenses help fund wildlife work. In Georgia, each license sold – even a one-day $5 combo – returns to the state that license fee plus as much as $45 in federal excise taxes paid by...
A Covey of Wild Memories
For a “sporting artist” could there be a name more fitting than Bob White? I will answer the question for you. Obviously, the correct response is: “No, there could not.” It isn’t as if this modern fine art painter and illustrator who lives near the St. Croix River in...
The Day the Duck Hunters Died
Nothing escaped the “winds of hell” and the deadly, suffocating snows that swept across the Upper Midwest on that fateful day in 1940.
Bird Hunting in NILO Land
John M. Taylor talks bird hunting in the quiet little town, and best kept secret, of Shawntee, Illinois. This is NILO Land. Think of Illinois and Chicago comes to mind, but the real history of the state lies 300-odd miles to the south. At the confluence of the Wabash...
Defense Against Bears with Pistols: 97% Success rate, 37 incidents by Caliber
This article originally appear on Ammoland.com Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- On the Internet, and in print, many people claim that pistols lack efficacy in defending against bear attacks. Here is an example that occurred on freerepublic.com: “Actually, there are legions of...
The Faces of Eve
On a May morning, in the glad renewal that is spring, two lives collided. One was that of a young man who knew and loved wildness, but was not wild. The other was that of a child, five weeks from newborn, who was. In the moment they met, he was so fascinated by her...
When Wildness Goes Bold
In any great wildlife painting, viewers do not just feel the spirit of an animal, we’re making contact with the mind’s eye of a brilliant artist. Julie T. Chapman, in her acclaimed multi-media scenes and monochromatic scratchboards, demonstrates how a single image can...