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...
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...
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...
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...