Ithaca Doubles: Overlooked Classics

Ithaca Doubles: Overlooked Classics

Like many enterprises of the time, its origins were humble. It began in a rough little wooden structure perched precariously on the steep gorge of Fall Creek near Ithaca, New York. The virtue of the location was its abundant water power, and the building had already...

Ezra Bogg’s Moose Hunt

Ezra Bogg’s Moose Hunt

“Yep” sighed old Ez, as he bunched a forkful of chewing and elevated it into the gap in his features, “I’ve seen ’em.  An’ I can say that jedgin’ by what I see of  ’em they’re tough customers. I hain’t a-hankerin’ to renew my acquaintance with ’em—they’re a trifle too...

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 14 Trailer

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 14 Trailer

When bobwhite quail populations in West Texas plummeted in 2010, concerned hunters took notice and banded together to fund research to find a solution to the mystery.  Now the efforts from the Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation are bearing fruit for wildlife in...

Never Give Up: The Half Day Hunt

Never Give Up: The Half Day Hunt

It's midnight when we pull into elk camp, dark and cold with a clear sky. There's no moon. The only light comes from the huge canopy of stars hanging low over the mountains, reflecting off the frost-covered ground. The stars are so low I feel like reaching up and...

Idaho Odyssey

Idaho Odyssey

One of the great wonders of young boys is never realizing how a chain of everyday events can so forcefully change and redirect your own life in years ahead, even into adulthood. For me, raised up in a 1940s small town in the foothills of northern California’s lovely...

Scotland’s Ultimate Sporting Quest

Scotland’s Ultimate Sporting Quest

The 1925 adventure novel John Macnab is the story of three high profile Scottish friends who are suffering from severe cases of the doldrums and are instructed by their physician to try something out of the ordinary, perhaps with an element of danger to snap them out...

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 13 Trailer

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 13 Trailer

The world’s most watched outdoor television series embarks on an unforgettable safari adventure in Tanzania as Chris Dorsey and Steve Hicks hunt myriad plainsgame on this week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey on Outdoor Channel. The two intrepid...

A Glance at The Grouse

A Glance at The Grouse

The fame of the game red bird overseas is too well known to require any comment here. Besides, in the matter of grouse, we have troubles not a few of our own. That the British bird is a grand fellow goes without saying, but the question if he be the head of his race...

25 Years of the Super Retriever Series

25 Years of the Super Retriever Series

Spring rains in southeastern Georgia can be either a blessing or a curse. If they’re cold, then handlers running Labs will need a lot of layers to knock down the chill. If they’re warm, then the heat combined with high water levels will bring out the water moccasins....

A Man-Killing Bear

A Man-Killing Bear

Angry and horrified at his friend’s fate, the man spent days looking for the cunning and savage monster.

The Premier Collection—Complete Matched/Numbered Set

The Premier Collection—Complete Matched/Numbered Set

The Premier Collection—Complete Matched/Numbered Set CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW A splendid offering for the discerning collector of all 50 titles in the Premier Collection from Briar Patch Press. These books feature all the attributes of a high-quality work—leatherbound,...

Holland  & Holland’s Aim for the Future

Holland & Holland’s Aim for the Future

Holland & Holland, long respected for producing firearms of the highest quality, was acquired in 2021 by the Beretta Holding Group from the French perfume company, Chanel. For three decades, the French company tried to redefine and reinvent the venerable old gun...

Flooded-Timber Mallards

Flooded-Timber Mallards

Daylight promised its coming in typical Delta fashion. Scudding clouds that produced off-and-on splatters of heavy, iced rain drops riding a north wind that hardly qualified as gusts. Still, that wind was more than ample to toy with denuded oaks, easily making eager...

Fish of a Thousand Casts

Fish of a Thousand Casts

They’re not typically given the title, but Atlantic salmon in low water certainly qualify as “the fish of a thousand casts.”

Swarovski Anniversary Special Offer

Swarovski Anniversary Special Offer

SPONSORED CONTENT Swarovski Optik North America celebrates its 75th anniversary with special offers on some of its most popular products.   NL Pure 32 and 42 Binoculars As soon as you look through the NL Pure, the technical masterpiece that lies within reveals...

Glass From the Past

Glass From the Past

Some “old” scopes were dandies! Would the hunters who used them prefer top sellers now? The Henriksen-stocked Mauser and its 6x Pecar scope were both heavy. But I was young and keen to scale the steeps for a bighorn ram. I found one in a nook, 250 yards below my path....

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 12 Trailer

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 12 Trailer

Get ready for an epic adventure in Greenland as Chris Dorsey and friends hunt eider and muskox in this week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey on Outdoor Channel. The team of Dorsey, Terry Graunke, Steve Farris and Charlie Potter navigate through...

A Rifle to Palm

A Rifle to Palm

Power and accuracy make a rifle lethal. A waist that welcomes your hand makes it useful.

What Does Its Third Century Hold for Purdey?

What Does Its Third Century Hold for Purdey?

Although there has been some debate about whether the eponymous gunmaking firm of James Purdey began operations in 1814 or 1816, 1814 is the date chosen by Purdey leadership to mark the firm’s beginnings, making 2014 the bicentennial of J. Purdey & Sons, or more...

Pronghorn: High Plains Drifter

Pronghorn: High Plains Drifter

A six-legged demon was ripping pieces out of my face. I didn’t dream of flinching. Not now, not after all I had been through the past three months.

Elmer Keith: King of Gun Cranks

Elmer Keith: King of Gun Cranks

One doesn’t have to dig deeply into the career of the “little man with the big Stetson,” Elmer Keith, before realizing that he was a fascinating character in a universe—that of hunting and shooting writers—generously populated by highly unusual individuals. Outdoor...

What Happens in Colorado Won’t Stay There

What Happens in Colorado Won’t Stay There

American sportsmen have justifiably celebrated the success of the so-called North American model of hunter-funded conservation, but the approach has a tragic flaw that now threatens to undo a generation of work. Hunter-conservationists have been so focused on saving,...

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 11 Trailer

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 11 Trailer

It is an epic celebration of ducks and geese at the top of the flyway as Chris Dorsey and friends hunt waterfowl in Saskatchewan in this week's episode of Sporting Classics TV.  Catch the action Monday at 12:30 pm, Tuesday 7:30 am, Thursday 2:30 pm, and Sundays at...

A Tribute to Theodore Roosevelt

A Tribute to Theodore Roosevelt

The great-grandson of our 26th President shares his unique insight into Theodore Roosevelt’s legendary determination and diligence and his lifelong passion for hunting and the outdoors.

America’s Drift from Tradition

America’s Drift from Tradition

If our children work hard, love, protect and abide, maybe they can survive. . . and maybe one day before it’s all too late they can bring America back again.

The Boat

The Boat

Sit in it and my knees begin to hurt, my back starts aching, my shoes get soaked. Then, this green time machine pulls me into the past, and slowly the pains fade.

The Old Songs

The Old Songs

Sing me the old songs. Tell me the stories of times gone by. I want to spend an evening or so with you to hear about your dogs. I want to see your guns. I want to read your favorite books. I want to warm my hands in front of your fire and try     your pipe tobacco and...

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 10 Trailer

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 10 Trailer

Chris Dorsey and Steve Hicks return to Tanzania in pursuit of massive Cape buffalo, and are joined by an experienced big game hunter who is baptized into the world of dangerous game. Check out Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey on Outdoor Channel every Monday at...

A Man In Full: Roosevelt Becomes A Man

A Man In Full: Roosevelt Becomes A Man

Daddy sent Theodore off to Harvard in 1876 with this advice: “Take care of your morals first, your health second, and your studies third.” Predictably, young Roosevelt was a better boxer than student, much preferring independent inquiries rather than activities...

From Pin Oak Flats to the High Country 

From Pin Oak Flats to the High Country 

I definitely learned more about elk hunting by assisting others than I ever learned hunting on my own. Hunting out west in the high country is a totally new experience for many of us “flatlanders.” I was in my early thirties before I had the opportunity to head to the...

Generations Of Sheep Hunting

Generations Of Sheep Hunting

Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in far southwestern Arizona is remote beyond compare, yet afforded one family a most uncommon sheep hunting experience. Autumn is for remembering. The last light of summer yields to the first beautiful days of fall. This time of...

Three Boys and a Cannon Barrel

Three Boys and a Cannon Barrel

It was a Federal Criminal Conspiracy: three boys, a cannon barrel and scaup to drive them crazy. The saltwater scaup are mostly gone now, but back when I was a boy they would raft offshore, a thousand, ten thousand at a time. It would take a booming gale to get them...

Beard Beauty

Beard Beauty

Turkey beards are a meaningful memento of success in the field—one with the potential to provide ongoing pleasure limited only by your creativity. There is a pronounced tendency among turkey hunters to consider the length and thickness of a turkey’s beard the ultimate...

The 45-70 Isn’t Old Yet!

The 45-70 Isn’t Old Yet!

It arrived 150 years ago in a panic. Hickok and Custer had three years to live. It still gets rave reviews!

The Mink

The Mink

How the mink had come to be there the boy did not know. Those whom he asked about it—casually, trying not to appear too inquisitive—laughed and told him condescendingly, There’s no mink in this country! Prob’ly just an old muskrat. They all had their reasons—Too far...

The Story of the Sporting Gun

The Story of the Sporting Gun

Firearms, of a sort, are supposed to have been used before gunpowder was invented; but the history of sporting guns is not concerned with the prototypes of these early weapons, and they need not be specified. Nor do the early cannon devised for military purposes call...

The Opening Weekend Tragedy

The Opening Weekend Tragedy

This October marks the 21st anniversary of one of the most tragic events in the history of upland bird hunting: opening weekend of the 2003 South Dakota pheasant season. Over the horrifying course of those two days, more than 100 gundogs (no one knows the exact...

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 9 Trailer

Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 9 Trailer

This week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey features three hunters in pursuit of black bear as Dorsey invites Sporting Classics Magazine CEO Duncan Grant and COO Wayne Nanney to join him for an unforgettable adventure in Saskatchewan. Check out Sporting...

Holland & Holland’s 700 Nitro Express

Holland & Holland’s 700 Nitro Express

In 1985, big game hunter and gun enthusiast, William Feldstein, walked into 33 Bruton St., London with a check in hand to cover the cost of a large gun order. Feldstein wanted Holland & Holland to build him a set of five bespoke large-bore nitro express double...

The 270 Winchester: A Very Fast Ball

The 270 Winchester: A Very Fast Ball

The Model T, Coolidge, then Depression defined the 1920s. Winchester added the 270. It alone endures. Night’s chill lies late in Spoon Creek. I slipped into cold wool and left the tent before dawn was a pale smudge. Breath white, I climbed through the timber to a bald...

Mr. Theodore Castwell

Mr. Theodore Castwell

An enchantingly beautiful chalk stream, perfect cast after perfect cast, big trout rising to the fly each time it alights on the water... For Theodore Castwell, it seemed that St. Peter had indeed given him very special consideration. Mr. Theodore Castwell, having...