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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

The Day the Duck Hunters Died

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.

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...

Cane Pole Magic

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

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...

In Defense of Trophy Hunting

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

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

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

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

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...

Not the Fool Hen Blues

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

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

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...

Hunting Free Range Nilgai in South Texas

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

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

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,...

An Old Man’s Memories of August

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

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

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!

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...

A Black-Maned Lion

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

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?

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

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...

M&M World-Renowned Shooting School and Hunting Lodge

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

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...

Magnum Velocity Bags Shooters, Not Game

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...

Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Scope Bite

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...

Visit the American West…in Nashville

Visit the American West…in Nashville

Paderewski Fine Art & The Sportsman’s Gallery Presents The West: Trimmings, Trappings, Feather & Fur Paderewski Fine Art & The Sportsman’s Gallery, Ltd. is pleased to announce the opening of The West: Trimmings, Trappings, Feather & Fur, on view in...

A Dorsey-style Family Vacation in the Amazon

A Dorsey-style Family Vacation in the Amazon

This weekend on Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, Dorsey and family wrestle with river monsters from the southern hemisphere. Officials from Dorsey Pictures announce that this Saturday’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey – the most watched outdoor TV...

Legacies Lost and Found: The Ithaca 20 Gauge

Legacies Lost and Found: The Ithaca 20 Gauge

The lost Ithaca 20 gauge of his boyhood would be the only thing he could leave to his daughter to pass on the legacy...or so he thought. Michael wiped the sweat from his brow with an old grease towel from his grandfather’s workbench and slumped to the floor. He had...