The Origins of Purina
After graduating from Washington University, William H. Danforth grew tired with his job as a brick salesman. It was 1894, a time nearing the turn of the 20th century, and excitement was in the air. Businessmen scrapped tradition and quickly gravitated to new and...
The Latest SportDOG Brand Rechargeable In-Ground Fence
SportDOG Brand, an industry-leading manufacturer of electronic dog-training products and accessories, has Introduced its newest solution for dog owners who want to give their dogs freedom to run ...just only so far: The Rechargeable In-Ground Fence System (Model...
Solving the Feral Hog Problem One Bite at a Time
In 1540, Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto imported the first wild pigs to the Americas. As the swine escaped, De Soto’s gift became a real-life trojan horse and today there are an estimated 5-7 million feral hogs in North America with about half living in Texas. ...
Response to Restrictions on Use of Deer Lures
States like MN and PA have implemented bans on the use of urine-based scents in CWD management zones. These are products that have been widely used by hunters for many decades to help them be more successful in the field. These bans take away a great tradition and...
Sporting Classics TV Episode 5 Teaser
In this week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey we're drifting through the high plains of Eastern New Mexico to hunt the fastest game species on our continent: Pronghorn. Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey airs on Outdoor Channel Saturdays at 12:30 pm,...
Remembering S. P. Fjestad
Steven Peter "S.P." Fjestad, 68, passed away peacefully at his condo in Bloomington on Monday, July 15, 2019 after a short but courageous battle with cancer. Steve was born on July 18, 1950 in Fergus Falls to Norman and Harriet (Swendsrud) Fjestad. He attended country...
D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery And Archives Preserves History For The Future
The past is indeed present at the D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery and Archives in Spearfish, South Dakota. The facility is dedicated to preserving images, documents and objects related to fisheries conservation. In fact, the archive is located at one of the...
Hemingway Book Bundle
For a limited time receive: Hemingway's Guns: The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway and Bimini, and Sporting Classics' 30th Anniversary Collector's Issue for only $50! BUY NOW Hemingway's Guns: The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway is a...
Operation Eastbound Dispatch 3
Operation Eastbound. 7/31 3:15 p.m. An accident on Interstate 20 has us delayed by about three hours, and that might have been fortuitous because it meant we entered Mississippi during the day and one of the first things I smelled was fresh cut grass. This was not...
An excerpt from Plumb Bob’s Pig
When the pig appeared on stage as the final auction item, Plumb Bob rasped his vow to have that cute little thing. The clamorous crowd cheered as the auctioneer kicked into gear. A young grunter of this pig’s peer would normally sell for about thirty-five dollars,...
Super Tag Winners Help Raise Over a Million for Wildlife
First appeared on Buckrail.com WYOMING – Wildlife conservation was the real winner when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced the winners of its Wyoming Super Tag raffle on July 15. Created by Gov. Matt Mead and the Wyoming Legislature in 2013, the Super Tag...
Dead Sage Grouse Should Be Reported Amid Fears of West Nile Virus
First appeared in Buckrail.com WYOMING – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is asking that all instances of dead sage grouse be reported to the department so the birds can be tested for West Nile virus. Research has shown sage grouse have low resistance to West Nile...
Mossberg Patriot Revere Bolt Action Review Video
First appeared on RonSpomerOutdoors At $848 MSRP, the Mossberg Patriot Revere bolt-action rifle may well be today’s “best buy” in a traditional hunting rifle. And there’s a bonus: it has a much prettier than average walnut stock. Classic Lines And Figured Walnut...
Remember the TVA vs. Snail Darter of the 70s?
The little fish may soon be removed from the Endangered Species List, Marking Conservation Success. WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity, former federal biologist Jim Williams and law professor Zygmunt Plater petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
An App to Navigate the Digital Wilderness
In the age of social media censorship of hunting and shooting sports content, outdoor enthusiasts feel alienated online. As platforms like Facebook and Instagram increasingly rely on automation and algorithms that flag innocuous hunting and firearms content, users...
A Wingshooter’s Dream at Primland in the Blue Ridge Mountains
SPONSORED CONTENT Nestled in the mountains just outside of Meadows of Dan, Virginia is Primland. A 12,000 acre luxury resort dedicated to providing guests with experiences that reflect the natural splendor of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The original purpose of the land...
Sportsmen Respond to New Effort to Lease and Drill the Ruby Mountains
New proposal for oil and gas leasing highlights the need for congressional action Sportsmen and women are vocally opposing a new effort to open up the Ruby Mountains to oil and gas development concerns over impacts ot habitat and wildlife. Days after the U.S. Forest...
How To Turn A 240sq. ft. Shack Into A First-Rate Outdoorsman’s Kitchen
At first glance, the little 12-by-20-foot building nestled in the trees behind the house might look just like a shack used to house lawn equipment and ‘stuff’ that will eventually wind up donated to a resale store. Once inside my little "Cooking Shack," the casual...
An Interview with Interior Secretary David Bernhardt
When entering Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s office in downtown Washington, D.C., I notice a beautiful trophy antler mount hanging above the fireplace. Bernhardt, beaming with pride, tells me the massive antlers belonged to the moose he harvested in Alaska's...
Importance of Youth Hunting on Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey strongly encourages all hunters to mentor a youth this fall. This is a critical time for the sport of hunting, especially for the future generation of young men and women that must carry the torch. A recent survey by the US Fish...
45-70 And 7×57 Mauser Compared
From Ron Spomer Outdoors Comparing the 45-70 and 7×57 cartridges will raise eyebrows. Might even turn the air blue on some social media sites (apples to oranges!) I’ll be called everything from a dumb #$&*%! to an ignorant #+=$^@*. But we shall know the truth, and...
House Committee Hearing on “Cecil Act” Attacks Hunters and Undermines Conservation Efforts
Safari Club International vehemently opposes H.R 2245, the “Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large Animal Trophies Act” or “CECIL Act,” which was the subject of a hearing today in the U.S House of Representatives’ Natural Resources Subcommittee on...
Premium Optics
Jul/Aug 2019 Optics Review The latest and greatest in riflescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes and other premium optics. Aimpoint Fully enclosed and sealed, the Acro P-1 is the only sight in its size category fully tested for shock, vibration, temperature span and...
Why the Shotgun Sports Can Be a Superior Way To Teach Ethics
A few years ago I experienced a moment that is now seared into my memory. The moment began inconspicuously. I and some of my Rocky Mountain Vintagers pals were ambling from station to station at Jerry William’s superb Quail Run Sporting Clays Club in Kiowa, Colorado....
Read More, Spend Less
Great American Hunting Stories A superb collection of stories that captures the very soul of hunting. Here, are some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging lions in the African bush to mountain goats in the mountain crags of the...
National Shooting Sports Month
August is almost here -- otherwise known as "National Shooting Sports Month," designated three years ago by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). Whether through target shooting at a favorite range, plinking in a backyard with friends and family, competing...
Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation Bill Introduced in the Senate
(Washington, DC) - Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus Member (CSC) Senator Jim Risch (ID), and CSC Senate Leaders Senators Deb Fischer (NE), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Boozman (AR), and Joe Manchin (WV) were joined by fellow CSC Members Senators Lamar Alexander (TN),...
An excerpt from Huge Grizzly At Close Range
As it appears In ALASKA BEARS, SHAKEN AND STIRRED About three o’clock by my watch, which is actually solar midday in that latitude, I settled in at the edge of the cut bank next to Bruce. We had not seen a single big game animal so far that entire day. Bruce asked...
This Weeks Sporting Classics TV Episode
We’re headed off the grid to a secret location in the mountains of Utah. A free range Mule deer honey hole that you have to see to believe.
Sandhill Crane Hunting in Alabama
From Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources A new and unique hunting opportunity will be available for Alabama residents beginning in the 2019-20 season. Alabama will join Tennessee and Kentucky, to be the third state east of the Mississippi River to...
Win a Hunt with Chris Dorsey
Join, Renew, or Upgrade your SCI membership for a chance to WIN! Don’t just watch great hunts on Sporting Classics TV…. now you can be a star of the show! Safari Club International and Sporting Classics TV are teaming up to offer one lucky winner the opportunity to...
Tim Hall Woodcarvings
Tim Hall, the seventh generation of his family to live along the Kentucky River from the days of Daniel Boone, has always been close to nature. Hunting and fishing have been life long pursuits as well as trying to capture the beauty he sees in the outdoors. Tim has...
Vista Divests Savage For $170 Million
Savage Arms, the well-known “still made in the USA” brand founded 125 years ago, was purchased by ATK in 2013. ATK's outdoors brands that also include Federal Premium, CCI Ammunition, Bushnell and others, were housed under a spinoff — Vista Outdoor — in 2015....
This Weeks Sporting Classics TV Episode
The series airs on Mondays 3:00 pm Thursdays11:30 am Saturdays 12:30 pm Sundays 11:00 pm
Nosler Mountain Carbon Hits Sweet Spot of Weight, Accuracy
Mountain hunters are a special breed. Every item they pack on a hunt has a purpose. Because gear means ounces and ounces add up to pounds. And pounds… they eventually equal pain. From cutting the handle off of toothbrushes to scraping the rubber armor off a spotting...
Hybrid Bass to Be Stocked in many Indiana Lakes
Indiana Department of Natural Resources hatchery staff is stocking hybrid striped bass across the state for the benefit of Hoosier anglers. Hybrid striped bass, also known as “wipers,” are a hybrid species of white bass and striped bass. By hybridizing the two,...
With Fabbri in Italy
Castelnuovo I was stunned. Pleasantly stunned. Roberto Ferrata uncased his new titanium Fabbri 12 gauge shotgun and handed it to me. “I want you to use my gun today.” I received the magnificent firearm and held it as gently as if it were a newborn baby. Bringing it to...
A Day with Rachel Carrie
If you’ve ever seen a carpenter pick up a hammer, then you know what it’s like to watch Rachel Carrie pick up her shotgun. It’s hard to describe exactly, but there is a familiarity and nonchalance with tools that only comes from a lifetime of work. Like greeting an...
Traversing the Decades with John Tolmay
From a small boy feeding the yard dogs with his father on the ranch in Rhodesia to cowboy in the Sand Hills of Nebraska, returning home to Africa to establish his own cattle ranch, inadvertently becoming a professional hunter and now a successful self-taught sculptor,...
Sporting Classics Magazine Announces Sponsorship of Sporting Classics TV
Sporting Classics Magazine announced their partnership with the upcoming television series Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey produced by Dorsey Pictures. The series will premier July 1, 2019 on Outdoor Channel and brings one of America’s greatest adventure...
The Bearing Tree
The landmark was a reminder of purer, simpler days. Three years ago, on an opening day hunt in my home state of Oklahoma, I killed one of the biggest Rio Grande turkeys of my life. In fact, he was big enough to show off, so I hauled him across the street to where my...
Cape Buffalo Safari BlaserR8
From Ron Spomer Outdoors A cape buffalo safari can lead to an expensive addiction. Thomas Wolfe famously wrote “You Can’t Go Home Again.” But he didn’t say you couldn’t go on a cape buffalo safari again. And after the first, you’ll want another. And another… But it...
Montana Sportsmen Undertake Legal Action Against Forest Service
BILLINGS, Mont. – Maintaining traditional public access opportunities in the Crazy Mountains of Montana is the goal of a lawsuit filed today against the U.S. Forest Service by a coalition of conservation-based groups, including Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. The...
SCIF Pathfinder Committee Awards Elk Hunt for Terminally Ill Child
Jena Bartenhagen, a special young lady suffering from brain cancer, realized her dream of hunting elk when she received the Jackie Bartels Memorial Youth Hunt. Jena wanted to hunt elk for a long time but couldn’t because of debilitating hearing loss, physical...
SC Interviews: Stu Apte
Chasing tarpon on the keys with, many say, the world's greatest fisherman, Stu Apte. For many more exciting fishing and hunting adventures, watch Sporting Classics TV with Chris Dorsey, now on The Outdoor Channel. Times are 12:30 pm ET on Saturdays, and 6:30 am...
Sporting Classics TV with Chris Dorsey
Here's a sneak peak at the exciting new outdoors series, Sporting Classics TV with Chris Dorsey. The epic series launches July 1st on The Outdoor Channel. Times are 12:30 pm ET on Saturdays, and 6:30 am Saturdays, 3 pm Mondays, and 11:30 am Thursdays.
Storytelling is in Our Blood
In The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, author Jonathan Gottschall writes: “Story is the grease and glue of society: by encouraging us to behave well, story reduces social friction while uniting people around common values. Story homogenizes us; it...
SCI Announces Sponsorship with Sporting Classics TV
Tucson, AZ - Safari Club International announced their sponsorship with the upcoming television series Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey produced by Dorsey Pictures. The series will premier July 1, 2019 on Outdoor Channel and brings one of America’s greatest...
Firearms from the Collections of 5 important Gunwriters now offered by Sportsman’s Legacy
A rifle that spent time in the hands of a legendary gunwriter like Jack O'Connor, Charles Askins or Tom Siatos would easily be the centerpiece of most collections. The same holds true for a rifle owned by a contemporary such as Todd Smith or an American Handgunner...
Congressional Amendment Threatens African Wildlife Conservation
Safari Club International strongly opposes Representative Vern Buchanan’s (R-FL-16) amendment to H.R. 3055, an appropriations rider which would prohibit the import of sport-hunted elephant and lion from Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. “We strongly oppose this...