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...
Horses I Have Known: The Roller
This is a hedonistic animal that likes nothing more than to roll belly up and scratch its back like a 1,200-pound Labrador retriever. It is very disconcerting to dismount your horse briefly and then return to find him scratching his back with both pieces of your...
Late Antlerless Firearm Deer Hunt In Southern Alpena County, Michigan, Planned For January 2020
A late antlerless firearm hunt will be held Jan. 2-5 and Jan. 9-12 on private land in southern Alpena County, Michigan. The Department of Natural Resources is offering this season to provide an opportunity for deer management at a localized scale in northeast...
Hydrostatic Shock On Game
Q: I’ve watched some slow-motion videos of deer being shot, and the shock waves that ripple out from the point of impact makes me think there is more to the actual killing effect than meets the eye. I know that if you slam a water valve open or closed you can cause...
Citizens Asked To Report Rabbit Sightings
If you see a rabbit in New Hampshire this winter, report it. NH Rabbit Reports, a project sponsored by the UNH Cooperative Extension and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, with support from the Wildlife Heritage Foundation of New Hampshire, is again asking...
Announcing Our January/February 2020 Issue
Features: Grouse of the Little Hills The place looked like grouse and it smelled like grouse. By Archibald Rutledge Bed Time for Geese On a cold wintry day, you can’t beat an old mattress for comfort and camouflage. By Dick Donnelly Driven in the Devon Driven birds...
First Deer With An Airgun
After you’ve been kicking around in the outdoors hunting and fishing as long as I have, it’s pretty exciting to partake of an entirely new outdoor experience such as deer hunting with an airgun. This past week, during the peak of the cold weather pushed down by the...
Work Sharp Systems Simplify Knife Sharpening
SPONSORED CONTENT It’s a fact that things change, and so it goes with knives—and the systems to sharpen them. Old days required a bulky stone, some oil and lots of patience coupled with a good dose of know-how. Technology, however, has come to the knife sharpening...
Must-Have Gear For Late Season Whitetail
SPONSORED CONTENT The biggest obstacle every mid- to late- season whitetail hunter faces is the cold. Add in wind and precipitation and you’ll quickly realize how poor-quality hunting clothing can easily cost an empty freezer at the end of a season. Choosing the right...
The Last Rhino
Listed as seriously endangered, rhino could face extinction in the wild within the next few years. Africa’s mystique and appeal often involves danger that, to a large extent, is why hunters the world over are drawn there to hunt big game. Hunting as a resident of...
Mossy Oak Meets Steyr
SPONSORED CONTENT All New Patterns Available for the Steyr Scout – Just in time for the Holidays! Steyr Arms, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious manufacturers of precision firearms, is excited to announce that its latest collaboration with the camouflage...
Women Driving Hunting, Fishing Numbers In Wyoming
More women are hunting and fishing in Wyoming according to recent Wyoming Game and Fish Department license trend data. Over the past ten years, women’s participation in hunting has increased 30.5 percent and 14.4 percent for fishing. It’s a trend Game and Fish has...
Coming To Texas To Hunt Hogs? Here Are A Few Tips From A Veteran Texas Hogger
Booking a hog hunt on a Texas hunting ranch, like any other outdoor adventure, requires a bit of forethought and planning. Topics such as hunting rates, availability of group hunting trips and exotic hunts available should all be considered. But, there are some other...
SEWE Showcase: Joseph Sulkowski
Acclaimed as one of America’s premier dog and sporting artists, Joseph Sulkowski shares his personal conversation with the outdoor life in a style of Poetic Realism. Influenced and guided by the hands of the Old Masters, he creates fluid brushstrokes that imbue his...
Mossberg’s Patriot Revere
Mossberg, a familiar, all-American brand among blue-collar hunters since 1919, recently raised the bar with its newly designed, classic, walnut-and-blued Patriot Revere bolt-action rifle. With its nicely figured, straight-comb stock, cheekpiece, rosewood tip and light...
Robert K. Brown Firearms Now At Auction
Robert K. Brown, USAR (Ret.) has lived a life of incredible adventure. He served in Vietnam as a Green Beret, trained troops and fought communists alongside them in hotspots around the globe and has defended the Second Amendment via his long-held seat on the NRA Board...
Should The Bullet Pass Through A Deer?
Q: Is it better for a bullet to pass through or stop in a deer? I’ve heard good arguments on both sides. Those who want the bullet to pass through want the extra hole so more blood comes out if they have to follow the deer. Those who want the bullet not to exit say...
Hunters Helping To Build Schools In Africa
Dr. Peter Nalos is a cardiologist and evangelist minister in Bakersfield, California. He is—or was—also a serious big game hunter with countless trophies and awards and records to his name. While he has hunted widely in many different countries, he—like so many other...
Osage County, Missouri, Angler Sets Record For State-Record Fish
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) recently announced that Bryant Rackers of Bonnots Mill caught two more state-record fish. Rackers now holds state records for white perch and sauger, both of which he caught on the Osage River in November. Rackers has made...
Register for Winter Depredation Hunts
As winter approaches, South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) reminds resident hunters of unique opportunities that could exist later this winter. GFP’s Wildlife Damage Management Program assists landowners with wildlife depredation abatement programs and services....
Joining The Ancient Club Of Ibex Hunters In Spain
A Beceite ibex stood atop an Iberian cliff across the canyon from us, its improbably long horns bowed against its rocky homeland. This was nothing new. That ram’s ancestors had posed on the same ledge while Hannibal’s elephants were lumbering through this region 2,200...
Horses I Have Known: The Houdini
This horse, while not intrinsically mean, is nonetheless a master escape artist. No series of knots, regardless of their complexity, are capable of securing this animal for more than about 30 seconds, which is generally just about enough time for you to walk out of...
SEWE Showcase: Jason Tako
The soul of Jason Tako’s artwork has its origins in the wetlands and prairie areas of Minnesota. He spent the summers of his youth fishing at the family cabin and winters wandering through the nearby wooded areas and playing on frozen lakes. During his senior year in...
Young Hunters Check 1,909 Deer During Missouri Late Youth Season
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that young hunters ages 6 through 15 harvested 1,909 deer during Missouri’s late youth portion of the 2019 deer hunting season, Nov. 29 through Dec. 1. Of the 1,909 deer harvested, 752 were...
Shotgun, Rifle Or Pistol, A Gun Must Earn Your Trust
Starry Orion was my only friend on that dark and cheerless night, poised high over my shoulder as I navigated alone through the thick, moonless swamp. The seven stars that defined his bow were hidden in the dense black canopy of palm and oak and longleaf pine that...
NM Biologists Begin Tracking A Pronghorn Herd At High Elevations
In New Mexico, herds of pronghorn are typically found roaming the high plains throughout the eastern part of the state. This expanse of land varies in elevation between 4,000 and 7,000 feet. A particular herd of a few hundred, however, spends the warmer months at...
Holland High Plains Stalker Rifle
A first world problem worth solving is balancing cutting-edge technology with the atavistic simplicity and joy of hunting. A few of us achieve this with longbows and homemade arrows, some with flintlock rifles and round balls, more with 19th century lever-action...