Announcing Our 2019 September/October Issue
Features: Ben Lilly The last mountain man. By Duncan Dobie Where Trout Mingle With Dragons A father-son adventure in Bhutan delivers lasting memories. By Dan Oko Passing It On How do you instill patience and other important virtues in a young boy? By Malcolm Brooks...
The Autumn Sporting Classics Catalog is out!
It's not too early to start thinking about the perfect gift for someone who lives the sporting life.
Friday Is National Toasted Marshmallow Day
National Toasted Marshmallow Day is when we celebrate the tradition of finding just the right stick and toasting the sugary puffs to perfection. The stick has to be just right. Cut it too short, and your hand will burn. Cut one too long that is also too lithe, and...
Good News, Bad News & the Gray Ghost
It was 1998 and my wife’s uncle had received exclusive permission from a farmer’s widow to hunt a hundred or more acres of farmland bordered by swamp and hardwood forest in Duplin County, North Carolina. He’d hunted the land since opening day, and for most of that...
The Vintagers Help Keep Edwardian Shotgunning And Dress Alive
John Chudzik was a Winchester man, addicted to its famed cornshuckers—Model 97s and Model 12s—but the Belchertown, Massachusetts, resident began to think they were a little on the heavy side and too cumbersome on a clays course. In time, lust crept into his...
Branded Rock Canyon Seeks Shooting Program Director
Branded Rock Canyon is seeking a candidate for its recently vacated Shooting Program Director position. The role and responsibilities are described as: Primary— Director (manager) of Precision Shooting Program Instruct – must be capable of instructing smaller private...
An Excerpt From: In The Land Of The Lakota
Mike Jr. was going for a whitetail he’d been after for a couple of years. He was hoping to climb up a certain tree stand close to the buck’s travel corridor. But the shifting wind changed all that. “There was actually one deer in there that was bigger than that one,”...
Boaters Beware: Low-Price “Regular 88” Gas is Bad for Boats
With more ethanol than ever before being served up at the nation’s gas station pumps this Labor Day holiday weekend, Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) cautions America’s recreational boaters to avoid filling up with “Regular 88” fuel on...
Rattlesnakes Among Friends
“You boys got to keep your eyes peeled for those diamondbacks,” Pierre said. He was butchering fish by the light of a Coleman, flounder fresh from the creek. “This time of year, they lookin’ for anything warm. Crawl right in your sleeping bag.” Pierre was fixing to...
An Artist In Big Game Country: Charged By A Caribou!
This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. So often have I heard the tales of hunters being attacked by moose, bears, etc., that with every trip I looked for some similar adventure to befall me. With the...
Carson Wentz: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
There are many reasons for sportsmen to place North Dakota on their bucket list. The entire state, or about 90 percent of the territory, is home to large ranches and moderate-sized farms. Agriculture is king in a vast swath of land that stretches from the flat Red...
August 26 is National Dog Day
A hunter's best friend has its own special day. National Dog Day was founded in 2004 by pet and family lifestyle expert, Colleen Paige, to celebrate all dogs — mixed breed and pure. Whether it's a true working dog or your "field & couch" companion, dogs give...
Daniele Perazzi Inducted into Trapshooting Hall Of Fame
On August 6, 2019, the creator of the “Ferrari of shotguns” was recognized for his worldwide contributions to trapshooting. Born in 1932 in Brescia, Italy, Daniele Perazzi spent his early years oblivious to the world class gunmakers around him. After all, his father...
Chris Dorsey Receives Trailblazer Award: Calls for Organized Support of Sporting Lifestyle
Chris Dorsey, host of Sporting Classics TV and co-founder of Dorsey Pictures, was given the industry’s Ray Scott Trailblazer Award by the Legends of the Outdoors Hall of Fame in recognition of his many contributions to the outdoor industry and wildlife conservation....
A Wolf Creek Chronicle
Carl Lear loved his father’s fly rod. At eight years old, he couldn’t remember a time when that rod had not been a part of his life, as it would continue to be for the rest of his days. The rod was a deep golden color with matching fly line that was much easier for...
Special Price Fly Fishing Class for Sporting Classics Readers
Want to learn how or to be better at fly fishing? Our longtime fly fishing columnist Todd Tanner has been writing about the sport on a national level since his days as a fly fishing guide on the Henry’s Fork, the Madison and the Yellowstone more than 25 years ago. Now...
Sporting Classics TV Episode 8 Teaser
This week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey includes General Walter Boomer, Emmy-winning actor Gerald McRaney, Walther Arms’ Cody Osborn, and host Chris Dorsey at the famed Brays Island Plantation to experience the outdoor lifestyle at its finest....
Incredible Double Rifles
This year, the Guns & Hunting issue of Sporting Classics magazine will include information about an incredible collection of double rifles that hit the market earlier this year. The collection of almost 100 guns is remarkable because they are all British,...
The New Guy Can Shoot! Pre-Season Range Day With The Sporting Classics Team
Dispatch 08/19/2019 1405hrs What better way to size up the new guy than with a trip to the top-secret shooting range where I test rifles? Sporting Classics CFO, Wayne Nanny has been on me for a few months to set up his new Montana Rifles' 30-06 with a set of Talley...
Eukanuba Celebrates 50th Birthday
The year was 1969, and headlines were ablaze with Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk, Woodstock and, alas, bell-bottomed trousers. Meanwhile, Paul Iams...
Palm Swells, “Tacticool” and Field Gun Performance
Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more “palm swells” on guns intended for field use. Whatever their merits or demerits on a target gun, they are mostly a hindrance to quick, reactive use on game, which seldom waits for you to call “pull” and seldom takes a certain,...
Sporting Classics TV Episode 7 Teaser
This week’s episode features Sporting Classics author and contributor Ron Spomer. Ron and his wife Betsy recently purchased a ranch in southern Idaho, and Ron spends his first hunting season patterning the giant mule deer that migrate through this new property. Find...
Pointing Lab: The Do-It-All Dog?
As a card-carrying traditionalist, I’ve always been more than a little skeptical about the pointing Lab. Why fix something that ain’t broke, you know? Then I met hunting and fishing guide John Klus of Lake Waubesa, Wisconsin. Klus is the owner of Oscar, a...
Improved Cylinder or Screw-In Chokes?
I generally regard screw-in choke tubes to be one of the greatest inventions since sliced bread. They lend a degree of versatility to shotguns that we could only dream of “back in the day.” I usually shun them on classic side-bys, but that’s probably just for...
Slow is Smooth. Smooth is Fast.
A while back, I was quail hunting with a young friend who was struggling mightily with the little brown bullets. We were finding plenty of bobwhites in the piney woods of South Georgia, but my pal just couldn’t seem to get the hang of it. It wasn’t that he was a bad...
“Dogs” From the Sporting Classics E-Book, “Passages”
These great quotes about dogs are excerpted from the Sporting Classics e-book, Passages. You can download the book FREE and enjoy content like this every day by signing up for the Sporting Classics Daily e-newsletter. “At this spot are deposited the remains of those...
CZ 550 Safari Magnum 458 Lott Photo Gallery
The Working Man’s Dangerous Game Gun
John Hill was frozen in his tracks. He got busted trying to sneak across a narrow opening to the spot where I was carefully setting up my shot on a very old and very large Cape buffalo bull. The two were now in a staring contest and John stood statue-still with his...
Alabama Sets First Sandhill Crane Season in Century
“They fall out of the sky like a lawn chair,” my co-worker told me after he returned from his first sandhill crane hunt. “What do you do with a crane?” I asked. “They’re called the ‘ribeye of the sky,’” he replied, and that was all I needed to know. I was up for...
Florida—Red Tide Status
The red tide organism, Karenia brevis, was observed at background concentrations in Southwest Florida and Northwest Florida over the past week. Additional details are provided below. In Southwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was observed at background...
Take Someone Fishing
About a decade ago, my wife Angela and I took advantage of the cool fall temperatures that were delivered on an East wind to scour the beaches for striped bass. There was a cleanliness in the air, the kind only found along the coast. The wind had pushed offshore fish...
Access Ammo With Ammo Caddy
The Ammo Caddy from Versacarry is a cartridge carrier that easily attaches to the buttstock of a rifle, belt or any surface in seconds and makes reloading quick and easy. It holds five rifle cartridges in the leather sleeve that attaches in seconds to your rifle or...
Dan’s 12 Quail Hunting Tips
These practical quail hunting tips are excerpted from the article “Dan,” by Bud Temple that originally appeared in the June 2019 issue of Sporting Classics magazine. I had frequently stopped at the little crossroads restaurant 16 miles north of my home in Wabash,...
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...