Learn The Art Of Hunting
Did you know sportsmen and women play an important role in wildlife management? They advocate for conservation policies and fund a majority of wildlife conservation efforts. But fewer and fewer are engaged in the great outdoors. That’s why Tennessee Wildlife...
Extraordinary Makinson & Son .600 Nitro Express Available
Extraordinary Makinson & Son .600 Nitro Express, 1,100 hours of engraving by Adone Pozzobon, serial 600, 900-grain, one of the finest double rifles extant. As is sometimes the case with unique and valuable firearms, a degree of speculation and unintended...
Beware: Georgia License Site Scam
A scam license website has been detected by the Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division. This site appears to be active in both North Georgia and on the coast. This scam website appears as an advertisement during a Google Search for “Georgia Fishing License.” The site...
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey Reaches Nearly 6 Million Viewers in First Season on Outdoor Channel, Moves to Syndication
Officials from Dorsey Pictures, the world’s largest producer of outdoor adventure television and the only production company with outdoor DNA named to Real Screen magazine’s annual Global 100 list, announced that Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey reached more...
North Dakota 2020 Spring Turkey Season Set
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is offering 6,230 wild turkey licenses for the 2020 spring hunting season, 205 more than last year. Seven of the 22 hunting units have more spring licenses than in 2019, five have fewer and nine remain the same. Unit 21...
Tahr In The Other Land Down Under
Tahr abound among the towering peaks of the other “Down Under,” New Zealand. The challenge is getting close enough to make the shot. There is another “land down under.” Not the one you’re thinking of. It is, by any measure, far, far away from anywhere that you might...
Always Have A Predator Call
Q: Larry, I’ve often heard you say you never go hunting without having a mouth-blown predator call with you. Do you use it only to try to attract coyotes and the like, or, do you use it to call up other “critters”? A: What you heard is correct. I do indeed carry a...
The Appended And Annotated Gaddis-Webster Dictionary Of Sporting Lexicology
Noah Webster was obviously a learned man, dedicating his life to language, his name synonymous with “dictionary” in America, especially the “modern” Merriam-Webster version, published inaugurally within that notable ring from the human cambium, 1828. In the process,...
27 Nosler Cartridge Redefines .270 Performance
Nosler has taken the venerable .270 rifle caliber to a new level with the introduction of the all-new, 27 Nosler. Conceived as a 21st century upgrade to existing .270 calibers, the 27 Nosler delivers previously unobtainable downrange ballistics by pairing the...
Horses I Have Known: The Leaner
These are actually affectionate animals who like nothing better than to lean their full body weight against you as you are trying to mount, adjust their tack, load paniers, etc. Usually a friendly shove will set things straight. The difficulty occurs when the horse...
Public May Rent Hunting Equipment At University Of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hunting equipment now is available for rent by the public at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Outdoor Adventure Center. Rental has been offered to the university’s students for about a year, and recently expanded to allow the public to rent the equipment,...
Baptizing A Mule Deer Hunter
The cathedral of Utah’s game-rich mountains provides hallowed ground for a father-son foray into the heart of the game. The gentle foothills and mountains in this stretch of Utah are home to all manner of the state’s big game—elk, mule deer, black bear and mountain...
2020 Michigan Junior Duck Stamp Contest
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is accepting entries for the 2020 Michigan Junior Duck Stamp Contest administered by the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge in Saginaw. Entries must be postmarked by March 15. The USFWS has hosted the contest in Michigan since 1995...
Apply Online For MO Spring Managed Turkey Hunts
Missouri turkey hunters can apply online during February for 2020 spring turkey managed hunts through the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) website. Drawing results will be posted starting March 15. The spring turkey hunting youth weekend will be April 4 and 5...
Record Number Of Anglers Achieve Cutt-Slam
A total of 144 anglers completed the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Cutt-Slam in 2019. Established in 1996, the Cutt-Slam challenges anglers to catch the state’s four subspecies of cutthroat trout — Bonneville, Colorado River, Snake River and Yellowstone — in...
Bowhunting Walkabout
Mum always said everything happens for the best. Who would of thunk a conked-out Cruiser could lead to so much bowhunting fun? Standing alone in dry, desolate outback, I feel first rage, then fear, then can do nothing but laugh out loud at my predicament. I had blamed...
Chinchaga River Moose
Were you to dream a moose hunt, this classic north country wilderness would be the perfect place. It was the quintessential north woods moose hunt for five days. Wild, serene, beautiful and perfect for the huntress. But then it was the moose’s turn. One tends to...
North Platte Outpost
Some years back, I met a fellow sportsman whose duck camp also served as his family’s home, a sweet, to say the least, deal made possible by a good-natured and tolerant wife who, nonetheless, well understood that this convenient combination gave her considerable...
DSC 2020 Convention and Sporting Expo Wraps Up Sunday
Exhibitors at the Dallas Safari Club 2020 Convention and Sporting Expo reported quality traffic and brisk sales. Even with the threat of severe weather Saturday, the aisles were packed.
Banovich Personalizes “King” At DSC 2020
More Great Things From DSC 2020
There were many more great outdoors and sporting items we came across at the Dallas Safari Club Convention & Sporting Expo. Later today we'll be attending a seminar by Gil and Vicki Ash on improving your wingshooting and tomorrow one by hunting ethicist Michael...
TR In The Land Of Giants
By September 1909,Theodore Roosevelt’s year-long safari had moved on to the Meru region on the northeastern slopes of Mount Kenya where, with the help of Edward Butler Horne, the first district commissioner, they would hunt for more elephant. TR had already shot his...
DSC Convention Kick Off A Success
The Dallas Safari Club 2020 Convention and Sporting Expo is a great place to see the best the sporting and outdoor world has to offer. Here are some of the highlights we saw before lunch the first day.
Sabatti’s Saphire Rifle
Quick. Name an Italian hunting rifle… See? That’s the problem. While the Italians are famous for hot cars, hot women and fine shotguns (which can also get pretty hot on an Argentine dove hunt), they seem to have taken a terminal lunch break at the rifle factory. For...
Hornady Sets Shockey Signing Session At DSC Expo
Internationally renowned hunter and conservationist Jim Shockey will sign autographs from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, at the Hornady booth at the Dallas Safari Club Convention and Sporting Expo. The expo is from Jan. 9-12 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention...
Perplexed By Parallax
Q: I started hunting with a scope on my rifle about 40 years ago, initially a fixed 4x Weaver and then a 3-9x Redfield with duplex crosshairs. It’s interesting how hunting optics have changed since that time. Today, many scopes have as special side knob for...
Booking A Vancouver Bear Hunt
Q: Larry, I’m headed to the Dallas Safari Club Convention where I plan to book a black bear hunt, my first big game hunt beyond having hunted whitetail deer and wild hogs in Alabama for the past twenty years. I’d like to go to British Columbia’s Vancouver Island....
Henry Repeating Arms Donates More Than 120 Guns To Raise Money For Two Children Undergoing Cancer Treatments
Henry Repeating Arms President and Owner, Anthony Imperato, first learned of 3-year-old Sadie Kreinbrink a few months after she was diagnosed with Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma, a malignant childhood tumor requiring 66 weeks of chemotherapy treatment. When Sadie’s mother...
Georgia Birding Competition And Art Contest
Georgia’s 15th annual Youth Birding Competition invites resident children and teens to celebrate birds through a T-shirt Art Contest. A winner will be picked from each of these age categories: primary (pre-K–2nd), elementary (third-fifth), middle school (sixth-eighth)...
Upcoming MDC Waterfowl Workshops
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) invites waterfowl hunters to a series of public workshops around the state in January, February and March to gather hunter input about duck season dates and zone boundary locations for the 2021-2025 seasons. Participants...
Horses I Have Known: Zombie Horses, or, Dawn of the Living Dead
When a corral is not available, such as on remote wilderness hunts, the horses may be hobbled and cow bells may be attached to one or more animals to keep track of them and aid in finding them in the pre-dawn darkness. The gentle, rhythmic ringing of the bells through...
See Us At The DSC Convention!
Sporting Classics Daily invites you to stop by our booth #3750 this week while at the DSC Convention & Sporting Expo at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. This family friendly Expo is open to the public and will fill a record 800,000...
Nebraska Trout Slam
Nebraska truly is a state where east meets west and north meets south. The state has a great diversity of geography, climate, habitats, wildlife and fish. As a result, Nebraska anglers are blessed with opportunities to fish for a variety of warm-water, cool-water and...
Try Snipe Hunting — No Joke!
The folklore surrounding snipe hunting as a practical joke played on gullible, inexperienced campers has been around for so long that some people don’t realize snipe are real birds. But they are! This migratory bird overwinters in balmy Florida providing hunters with...
Online Applications Now Available for 2020 Joice Island Wild Pig Hunts
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is offering wild pig hunts in March and April at the Joice Island Unit of Grizzly Island Wildlife Area in Solano County. The 2020 Joice Island pig hunt drawings will be administered online exclusively. CDFW is...
Legends of the Hunt – Rogue
A gunshot and a scream shatter the still African morning air. A hunter is dead in his tent from a massive head wound; a gun in his hand. A white hunter and his gun-bearers rush to the tent followed by a sobbing woman close behind. It is the start of what will become...
New Mexico Trout Challenge Kicks Off
Anglers in New Mexico are very fortunate to have such diverse fishing opportunities, especially when it comes to trout. With six different trout species, all within a few hours of each other, catching several, or all of them, can be quite the challenge. In January...
Report Winter Turkey Sightings In NH
Turkeys have begun gathering, and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is asking the public to report sightings of wild turkeys online at www.wildnh.com/surveys/turkey.html through March 31. Information about the status of wintering wild turkeys is particularly...
Duel On Tabernacle Mountain
Partridge and setter, each super-naturally gifted within his time. Bound within the all-consuming mission each was born for: to best the other. This story is true, as true as you wish it to be…as true as the truth of all the great grouse dogs and all the great grouse...
Death In The Dust
The author discovers “the most thrilling experience of my life” when a cow elephant decides to get even. It was Rick Stoeckel’s second African hunt. As with most, he had cut his teeth on plains game and couldn't wait to return for something big. By the time our plane...
A Deformed Pup Turns Out To Be A Great Gundog
After pacing the house from room to room, Marshall Skinner’s eight-year-old Labrador retriever abruptly dropped a warm whelp into his hand. He couldn’t imagine where she had gotten it, until she birthed a second pup. “I had no idea she was pregnant,” said Skinner,...
Grizzly Trouble On The Thorofare
Wyoming’s Thorofare River, draining an area that is possibly the most remote region in the lower 48 states, is the Yellowstone River’s major feeder above Yellowstone Lake. I came to know the stream intimately in the 1980s thanks to involvement with an outfitter who...
Minnesota Simplifies Turkey Hunting Licenses
Hunters hoping to bag a tom turkey with a firearm this spring will no longer be restricted to a single permit area. With the exception of three major wildlife management areas, a spring turkey license will provide the opportunity to hunt all permit areas in the state....
Horses I Have Known: The Scree Surfer
Horses are generally sure-footed animals with a few notable exceptions, but even they occasionally slip or fall. I well remember crossing a scree field in northern British Columbia while on a mountain goat hunt. Dislodged rocks rolled for hundreds of yards as we...
New York: New Deer and Moose Feeding Regulation
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos recently announced the adoption of a regulation to reduce problems caused by wildlife feeding and establish strict procedures for the use of tick-control devices designed to treat...
Guerini Elipse And The Importance Of Stock Fit
Blending old and new, the author takes Guerini's Elipse Evo along with his old, recently modified LeFevre on a western bird hunt. Do you remember? The girl? Yes, that girl! The one who caught your eye from across the room all those years ago. She had long, flowing...
Blood Red Mackinaw
In 1954, nearly a million hunters took to the northern woods for the opening day of the Pennsylvania deer season. Each of them with hopes of bagging a big buck. All, that is, but one. Inch by inch, the afternoon sun steadily dissolves, casting an orange and pink haze...
More Than 150 Years Of Winchester
For the past 150 years, Winchester has always found a way to create iconic firearms beloved by their owners and passed down grandfather to grandson. You don't select a Winchester rifle and say "Here. This is it. This is Winchester's magnum opus, its masterwork. This...
Submit Nebraska Super Tag And Combo Applications Beginning Jan. 2
Applications for multispecies Super Tag and Combo lottery permits will be accepted by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission beginning Jan. 2. The Super Tag lottery permit will be valid for one elk of either sex, one antelope of either sex, one deer of either sex and...
The Outdoors Has Never Been So “Dangerous!”
Do you remember the “good old days,” when the only dangers an outdoor sportsman or woman had to fear were venomous snakes, bull gators, rogue boars and the occasional rabid canine? Yeah, good times, good times. My aging father is always making fun of my generation of...