2021 John H. Prescott Marine Animal Rescue Assistance Grants Announced
NOAA Fisheries is awarding 55 grants totaling more than $3.7 million to our partners in the Marine Mammal Stranding Network in 19 states and one tribe. These grants support a core mission of NOAA Fisheries: the conservation and recovery of protected marine species....
A Dorsey-style Family Vacation in the Amazon
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey wrestles with river monsters from the southern hemisphere. Officials from Dorsey Pictures announce that this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey - the most watched outdoor TV program in the world – features a...
Rendezvous with a King
The ocean was like a piece of glass as we glided past the familiar black-and-white-spiraled St. Augustine lighthouse a mile or so off to our starboard side. Heading out into the great unknown on a muggy June morning, I couldn’t help but think of my grandmother’s...
11 Brilliant Hemingway Quotes: Hunting & Fishing
From Green Hills of Africa to The Old Man and the Sea
Reward Increased in Poaching of Bighorn Sheep Ram
Crime was committed in Game Management Unit 39 BUCKEYE, Ariz. — The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is seeking information about the poaching of a mature desert bighorn sheep ram in Game Management Unit 39 in the Buckeye Hills at Gillespie Dam, south of...
Hunters with Attitude
Hunters with an attitude. Imagine that. Attitude isn’t everything, but it seems to add a few hundred feet per second to muzzle velocity and at least that many foot-pounds of kinetic energy to any bullet. Evidence for that comes from dozens of hunters who respond...
Scenes from the Wild North
Why do hunters seldom put antlers of average score on the wall? An absurd question, certainly, for readers of this great magazine. And yet while the reasons seem obvious, let’s apply the same rationale to works of fine art we collect. Why settle for paintings and...
The 6.5 Grendel: A Deer Hunting Surprise
Super Bowl punch from a Pee Wee round.
Something Old, Something New
The loved and despised 6.5 Creedmoor seems to have started it. This new cartridge craze. This reinvention of the tried and true. And now the 6.5 PRC, 6.5 RPM, 6.5-300 Weatherby, 26 Nosler…. “It’s just those gun and ammo companies trying to gin up sales!” But of...
Treasures in the Mail
Mention the golden age of sporting art, 1890 to 1930, and immediately we think of the beautiful calendars, broadsides and magazine illustrations produced by a group of American artists who will probably never be surpassed. The best of them did advertising work...
Grizzly Encounter
Rick bent to one knee checking blood splatters on three-day-old snow crunching under his weight. It appeared pinkish—possibly lung blood. Staring up the hill, his gaze followed the mule deer’s tracks running straight to the top before disappearing into exposed rocks....
The Intruder
It wasn’t much as waters go — probably a couple acres at best. I’d passed by it many times always on the way to somewhere else. It lay a few hundred yards off the road, nestled up against the back edge of the old cemetery. I suppose to most people it would be a...
Who Really Helps Animal Rights?
Perhaps you’ve seen the late-night appeals on cable channels from animal rights groups—the public service announcements of a starving dog or cat that will have a better life if you only send $25…immediately? You look down at Rover, resting comfortably on his padded...
Great Finds Afield
Just the other day I was walking through some tall weeds and BAM—it hit me. The smell of a something gone bad reached my superior nostrils and I had to find the source. It was a rotting deer leg—and it was mine. I grabbed it and was carrying it high and proud until I...
Would You Know…?
And where do you find tranquility? A restoration of spirit, a calming of your soul? In a place so quietly unobtrusive, yet so deeply profound you will never find it so perfectly any other place on Earth? A reprieve of being that is so unwavering, so wholly...
Cane Pole Magic
A cane pole, whether used from shore or in a boat, is wielded by a simple, graceful motion in which the angler lobs the baited hook. The image is as enduring as it is appealing, something straight from a Norman Rockwell cover on an old Saturday Evening Post. A...
Candid Cameron on Bullying
Remaining calm and ignoring bullies completely is Cameron's way of letting them know a dog’s world trumps hooman worlds (and words). By today’s standards, you should not say anything about my big ears, short bobbed tail, excessive drooling, wild stare, incessant...
Training a Gundog: It Takes More Than One Month!
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and a champion bird dog isn’t ready after just four weeks.
In Defense of Trophy Hunting
Chris Dorsey is joined by “The Honorable Hunter," author Michael Sabbeth, in the latest podcast from Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey. Dorsey Pictures announces a unique podcast as author Michael Sabbeth joins host Chris Dorsey for a lively discussion in defense of...
Candid Cameron Rides the River
Cameron the Weimaraner warns fellow canines to stay safe from the sun this summer to avoid the dreadful sunburned snout! I believe I have written numerous time here on Sporting Classics Daily that I like fishing and going on fishing adventures. I’m not lazy but I...
English Springer Spaniel: The Happy Medium Flusher
When it comes to flushing dog breeds, the English springer spaniel is a near-perfect blend of fun and functionality. If the German shorthair is the “happy medium” of the pointing dog set, the breed that fills this role in the flushing dog division is the springer...
The Ultimate Boneyard: Bahamas Bonefish
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey visits The Bahamas’ Andros Island for bonefish this week in “The Ultimate Boneyard.” Dorsey Pictures announces that this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey – the most watched outdoor TV program in the world –...
Krieghoff K-20 Parcours
The Krieghoff K-20 Parcours is as adept on the sporting clays course as it is in the field. SPONSORED CONTENT This well-balanced beauty makes an ideal wingshooting companion to the K-80 everyone loves. The K-20 Parcours’ refined design carries easily regardless of...
As Crepuscule Closes In
A brief and artistic depiction of the very moment a young child falls in love with fishing. A faint zephyr curled the tip of her hair. Shoulder length. The lapping of edge water murmuring. Inveigling liquid whispers heralding dusk – some primal tongue understood by...
Not the Fool Hen Blues
Dusky grouse have a curious way of making a living. They migrate come winter, but not the direction we might think. There is a bird migration underway right now, but it is not what you may think. It’s late August. National Shooting Sports month is coming to a close....
SC Warehouse Sale: 10% Off Storewide
Get 10% off full-price and sale items, from our latest hunting and fishing books to outdoor knives and hats. Use code August21 during checkout to save.* www.sportingclassicsstore.com
Candid Cameron: Dog Days of Summer
This summer season has been a scorcher! Here's how our friend Cameron the Weimaraner cools off during those Dog Days. In much of America the outside temperatures have been true scorchers the past few weeks. The Dog Days of Summer continue to bear down upon us — and...
Beefy Quail and Fried Crappie
Wild game recipes from Sporting Classics’ Jim Casada.
No More Mr. Nice Guy
He just wasn’t going to take it anymore: the snow and cold and bass that seldom grow much bigger than your bait. No. The time had come to pull out all the stops in one last-ditch, hell-bent-for-whatever quest for a trophy bass… a gut-wrenching, arm-busting, heart-pounding wallhanger of a fish.
Hunting Free Range Nilgai in South Texas
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey travels to Texas this week in “Stalking the Blue Bull.” Dorsey Pictures announces that this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, the most watched outdoor TV program in the world, heads to south Texas to chase free...
Preseason Training Tips from the Pros: Part 2
It won’t be long before we’re all back in the woods and on the water. Here are some tips from Eukanuba Pro Trainers to get your dogs prepped! SPONSORED CONTENT Preseason training is a process, and we’re getting close to Opening Day. Here are some tips from...
A New Legend of the Outdoors
Author and television producer, Chris Dorsey, will be inducted into the Legends of the Outdoors National Hall of Fame. Founder of the Legends of the Outdoors National Hall of Fame, Garry Mason, has announced that veteran television producer, personality and author,...
Ten Quotes for the Sportsman’s Soul
Words can never fully express the emotions of hunting and fishing, but these come close.
An Old Man’s Memories of August
This fisherman's fairytale is far from folklore... A true story of giants, fairies, heroism and romance stay alive in an old man's memories. Once upon a time long ago and far, far away, there was a boy. “Wait,” someone will shout. “That sounds like an elementary...
A Fascination With Fly Rodding
From the time I was first able to tag along without completely impeding his fly fishing, Daddy let me accompany him on short after-work outings to nearby trout streams in my native Great Smokies. My father was a dedicated fly fisherman and one of those wise mentors...
Brays Island is “Home Sweet Covey” for Dorsey
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey celebrates the sporting life in the Lowcountry in this week's new episode. Dorsey Pictures announces that this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey – the most watched outdoor TV program in the world – celebrates the...
Bob Timberlake’s “Lilly” Available for a Limited Time!
Now is your chance to own a Bob Timberlake sketch and support the educational and research efforts of the Boykin Spaniel Society. Lilly was Bob Timberlake’s first Boykin spaniel, which quickly became a family member and his favorite hunting dog. Unfortunately, she...
11 Lost Hunting and Fishing Photographs from Yesteryear
Unearthed images from the past.
Up Close and Personal
There’s no better show than a gundog chasing a grouse.
A Black-Maned Lion
I realized no matter how long I lived or what future hunts might bring, nothing else would ever compare. Such it is when one takes a lion. It seems customary for those who write about hunting lions to begin by citing influences of others gone before. They will first...
Funny Fish
These fish will test your patience, your tackle and your sanity. Funny Fish, such as skipjack tuna or Spanish macks, are reliably unreliable. These late summer fish are funny as in crazy. The start of summer football two-a-days usually coincides with the arrival of...
Into Africa—The Return of Safari…Now What to Wear?
It’s time to plan and act—embrace Africa and she will sink her claws into you and never let you go. But what on Earth to wear? From South Africa’s Kruger National Park to the Eden of Botswana’s Okavango Delta to the vast plains of the Serengeti, travelers are ditching...
A Salute to Speed in the High Plains of New Mexico
Walther Arms’ Krogh and Osborn chase pronghorn in this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey Dorsey Pictures announces that this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey – the most watched outdoor TV program in the world – features a...
Fisheries Professionals, Partners Work Together to Save Salmon from Extreme Heat
Despite the hazardous heat, staff and partners worked together to safely transfer 348,000 spring Chinook and release another 7.15 million juvenile upriver bright fall Chinook salmon so they could make their way out to the Pacific Ocean before river temperature hit the...
M&M World-Renowned Shooting School and Hunting Lodge
M&M Hunting and Sporting Clays' world-renowned shooting school and on-site hunting lodge make for the perfect shooting adventure. SPONSORED CONTENT M&M Hunting and Sporting Clays is owned and operated by three generations of the Matarese family. It is...
A Visit to the Award-Winning Rio Piedra Lodge
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey Visits Award-Winning Rio Piedra Lodge as Part of SCI’s "Share the Impact" Auction Officials from Dorsey Pictures announce that the encore presentation of this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey – airing Saturday...
Can Field Trial Dogs Make Good Hunting Dogs?
So you don’t want a field-trial dog. Are you sure?
Magnum Velocity Bags Shooters, Not Game
It's a fact that magnum velocity and terminal projectile energy don’t matter much. So why do we have all these magnum velocity cartridges? We hunters often like to point out that magnum velocity and terminal projectile energy don’t matter much because the game we take...
Four Incredible American Gun Dog Breeds
American gun dogs are some of the finest in the world. These four represent some of the best and brightest breeds the country has to offer.
Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Scope Bite
Arguably worse than any snake bite, when the rifle scope bites, it’s only a matter of seconds until the blood and the tears start to flow. There are seven venomous snakes in my home state of Oklahoma – the copperhead, the cottonmouth and five different species of...