Candid Cameron: The Shopaholic
This week Cameron the Weimaraner shares his secrets to sniffing out the best toys and treasures dog-friendly stores have to offer. Dog toys are awesome. The other day I found a toy that I have had a while but had forgotten. Originally it was a teddy bear. It is now...
If Social Media Fact-Checked Outdoorsmen
If social media started fact-checking the posts we dedicate to exaggerating our outdoor prowess, hunters and anglers would be out of business. “There is, among hard-core fishermen, a conviction that the truth, like pure water and the fish that live in it, is a...
Help Unleash Your Sporting Dog’s Potential
Tailored diets like those offered in Eukanuba’s Premium Performance line provide the right source and amount of energy to help sporting dogs perform at their peak. SPONSORED CONTENT Hard charging sporting dogs—like English pointers and setters, Labrador and golden...
Hare Hunting New Hampshire
Small game hunters unite through the world of social media.
Eight Hilarious Hunting and Fishing Jokes
Jokes from the outdoor world that only sportsmen and women can truly appreciate.
Grandma Was a Squirrel Hunting Fool
It’s not every fellow who can say he grew up under the tutelage of an extraordinary grandma who was a squirrel hunting fool. As a youngster, I was fortunate to spend considerable time around both of my grandmothers. Each, in her own way, was a genuine character. They...
Beauty Really Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Looks truly can be deceiving when it comes to a well-performing bird dog.
The Best Super Bowl Commercial Ever
The best Super Bowl commercial ever for outdoorsmen and women aired this year as Bass Pro CEO Johnny Morris encourages Americans to get back to nature. The outdoor industry is finally bringing the sporting and outdoors lifestyle to the mainstream media during the best...
Simple Smoky-Mountain Fried Trout
Simple and supremely satisfying, this fried trout recipe works well over a fire in backcountry or on the stove in your kitchen.
A Goose Hunt for Harley
Hunting and shooting Canada geese is fun, but watching a very fine dog ‘put the finishing touches’ on our downed geese was just plain joyful.
Secrets to Fly Fishing for Suckers
For those willing to succumb to all that comes with fly fishing for suckers, here are a few secrets to getting those suckers on the fly. Apparently, I have a knack for catching suckers on flies. Having confessed this, it’s not something I recommend unless you are...
Boyds Makes Classic Stock Dreams a Reality
With Boyds classic stock shapes, becoming “one” with your gun comes as naturally as it should, without sacrificing the appeal of traditional firearms. SPONSORED CONTENT You are one in a million…your gun should be, too. Like the glove of a baseball pitcher or the race...
Candid Cameron: Why I Like Birds
This week Cameron the Weimaraner reminisces the trials and errors of his first bird hunt as a young pup pointing pheasants in the field. I can barely remember back when I was young and just a pup, but I rode in a truck and the door opened and Mike, my hunting partner...
The Landmark Vine
I believe most of us who love spending time in the outdoors have places or even landmarks that for one reason or another have become special to us through the years. I’ve written often about a 250-acre piece of outdoor paradise within a mile of my house that I’ve...
Not the Girl Next Door
“When we got married, I thought she said, ‘I do,’ but she must have said, ‘I hunt.’” This past December, my husband and I celebrated our 37th wedding anniversary, and I was surprised that he was just as excited as I was to mark the occasion with an impromptu...
The Perfect Guide Knife
Owen Baker builds the perfect guide knife for the author, who is also a hunting and fishing guide.
Bass Pro Parent Acquires Sportsman’s Warehouse
Sportsman’s Warehouse has entered into a definitive agreement to join the Great American Outdoors Group, parent company of Bass Pro Shops. In an effort to better serve its loyal customers, Sportsman’s Warehouse has entered into a definitive agreement to join the Great...
How Benchrest Shooters Improve Your Hunting Rifle
“If you visited a benchrest competition today, you would see scores of rifles that, other than looking like they had been painted by a graffiti artist on a manic high, are not all that different in shape and weight from your heavy-barreled varmint rifle.”
The Winter Woods
Sitting in the cold winter woods with ear and eye continually scanning the surroundings, the sights and sounds of nature is my idea of perfect entertainment. For one who spends time outdoors through all the seasons in pursuit of fish and game and the simple elation of...
Ideal Hunting Bullet: How To Choose
If the bullet fails, even the world’s most expensive rifle and advanced scope are superfluous. So how do you choose the ideal hunting bullet? How do you choose the ideal hunting bullet? A reader recently asked the following: Good day. I enjoy your articles Ron, but I...
The High-Quality, High-Quantity Hunting Lodge
Shoot your quail and eat it, too! Guests of the Primland Resort hunting lodge in Virginia never have to choose between quantity and quality. SPONSORED CONTENT In the age of technology and instant gratification, quantity seems to be taking precedence over quality. For...
Valentine’s Dinner for Two: Stuffed Pheasant with Rutabaga Silk
Celebrate this Valentine's Day Brays Island style with this stuffed pheasant dinner for two paired with the perfect prosecco. Valentine’s Day is always a favorite holiday at Brays Island, and typically owners have the option to dine at the Plantation Grill with a...
Candid Cameron: New Year, New Scent
Meet Cameron, a five-year-old Weimaraner from Montana with a thirst for adventure...and shenanigans. This week, Cameron questions the importance of bathtime. Well, most upland bird hunting seasons have closed and it was a hectic one for this Weimaraner here in the...
The Cruelest Month
Despite the viciousness of New England’s winter, there are occasionally days when trap and skeet shooters can burn some serious powder at the range.
The Hardcore Hunting Dog Diet
Sporting dogs are athletes. Some sprint while others run all day. Olympic athletes. Their nutritional needs are undeniably different, and that’s why Eukanuba’s Premium Performance line has a variety of formulas catered to every breed ranging from sled dogs to flushing...
Aging Waterfowl for Improved Flavor
Do you hang your ducks and geese to age before cleaning them?
How to Make Your Fish Bigger
Lying about the size of your fish isn't anything new, but new technology has made it trickier. Here are some tips to help make your fish bigger on camera. Fishermen have been trying to make their fish bigger ever since lying was invented. Somewhere in a cave there is...
Nick Lyons: Giant of Modern Sporting Letters
Anyone who reads Nick Lyons' Fire in the Straw will come away enriched, enchanted by a style that is at once pithy and persuasive, and enlightened. I would contend, with plenty of evidence to support my views, that over the course of the last half century there has...
“Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey” Reaches 7 Million+ Viewers on Outdoor Channel in Second Season
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, the world's most watched outdoor TV series, has year-to-year ratings up 30 percent. Officials from Dorsey Pictures, the world's largest producer of outdoor adventure programming with series airing on ten national networks and with...
Great Gift Ideas for Valentine’s Day!
Sporting Classics’ jewelry offerings are sure to make a big impression.
A Gift For You…
Sporting Classics is kicking off the new year with a gift for you! Browse new guns, gear, wildlife art, classic stories and more in your FREE digital issue. With the travel restrictions of 2020 and many of the annual outdoors trade and consumer shows canceled, we...
Steakhouse-Style Pan-Seared Backstrap with Easy Garlic Butter Pan Sauce
Get steakhouse flavor in minutes for an easy weeknight venison meal.
Elephant Hunting: Because Their Lives Depend On It
Elephant hunting means the entire hunting party counts on you to make a clean, killing shot. Chris Dorsey shows how it's done in this awe-inspiring video. Every elephant hunting experience starts with a new frame of mind, an awakening that the stakes are higher — not...
Best Scope for Hog Hunting: Digital vs. Thermal
Nighttime is the right time for hog hunting. Now all you need is the right scope. Digital or thermal: Is one really better than the other? Wild hogs that receive little hunting pressure can often be hunted successfully at all hours of the day, but put a bit of...
Knife of Legends: The Bowie
To many frontiersmen, Civil War soldiers and present-day knife collectors, the Bowie was and is the ultimate knife.
My First Teal
“I had walked all day and was hungry and tired, but the joy of those few minutes made me as spry as when I stepped out into the field.”
Monthly Giveaways in 2021 for Sporting Classics Daily Subscribers
Each month of 2021, Sporting Classics Daily subscribers new and current have a chance to win guns, knives and more in our 40th Anniversary Giveaways! To help celebrate 40 years of publishing the finest hunting and fishing content ever, Sporting Classics is giving away...
Year of the Wuhan
Author Jake Jacobson shares some positive experiences as both a hunter and guide in Alaska during the challenging year of 2020. 2020 began cold; -1 Fahrenheit in Kodiak. Snow had come in early December 2019 and accumulated to a non-drifted depth of 46 inches in my...
Grandpa’s Tying Bench
Necessity is the mother of invention, and lost flies are the impetus for learning to tie new ones.
Four Uniquely American Game Animals
The United States is home to a wide variety of game species, some found nowhere else in the world. Here are four species that are uniquely American.
Tips for Aging Bucks by Body Traits
Aging bucks on the hoof is as much art as science. You won’t get it right every time, but keep trying.
Charging Buffalo vs. Aimpoint Sights
When standing face-to-face with an animal as dangerous as a charging cape buffalo or an angry elephant, hunters need a rifle optic they can trust without hesitation. SPONSORED CONTENT With Aimpoint’s original red dot sighting technology combined with the ability to...
The Four-Pounder
George was a legend to those at the Complete Angler, and to catch and kill him would be an unspeakable villainy. Or would it?
The Joy of Cover Dogs
Cover dogs have stories to tell, just like an ancient New England stone wall.
Examining the Wilderness Hunter
TR explains what hunting truly offers a sportsman.
How to Know a True Fisherman
Eternal words by the former president.
A Clothing Line Inspired by Nature
For the Hayes family, going wild led to Madison Creek Outfitters, apparel for people who crave the great outdoors. For Phillip and his son Todd Hayes, what started as a family adventure into the wilds of Wyoming led to a journey down Madison Creek, a stream of...
Top 10 Waterfowling Quotes
The most profound statements come through icy whispers in early morning blinds.
Maine’s Junior Duck Stamp Challenge for K-12
Maine Audubon and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are looking for Maine students to submit some creative, innovative, beautiful waterfowl art! For the 27th annual Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program, students will be able to submit an entry of approved waterfowl art...
Is Hunting a Sport?
It’s often called that, but does it really meet the criteria?