Going Back to Our Outdoor Roots
When I was a youngster growing up in northeast Texas, we fished strictly with cane poles that we cut from a stand of switch cane that grew near the back of our little farm. We usually kept a 12-foot Calcutta pole or two for when we needed to really reach out from the...
Wyoming Man Charged for Poaching 114 Deer & Antelope
A Sheridan County resident has been charged with two misdemeanors and nine felonies for wanton destruction of big game animals. Gregg Lambdin, a 62-year-old Sheridan resident turned himself into the Sheridan County Sheriff’s office on Tuesday. The first two charges,...
Henry Repeating Arms Chosen as Firearms Museum Collector’s Series
CODY, WY – January 28, 2019 – The Cody Firearms Museum boasts the most comprehensive collection of American firearms in the world, and their new Collector’s Series gives the public the opportunity to own collectible firearms inspired by prized pieces in their...
Outdoor Opportunities Boost Wyoming Economy
WYOMING – Hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers in Wyoming contributed more than $1 billion to Wyoming’s economy during 2017, according to a new analysis by the University of Wyoming. It’s a 2.3 percent increase from 2016, attributed to more people heading outdoors....
Virginia is for Lovers of Fly Fishing and Wine
A flurry of snow didn’t stop new and seasoned fly anglers from venturing to the annual Virginia Fly Fishing and Wine Festival at the Meadow Event Park in Doswell, Virginia. With 19 years of operation under its belt, the festival has grown into “one of the largest...
Colorado Runner Suffocates Mountain Lion During Attack
An unidentified man is recovering in a Fort Collins-area hospital after he killed a mountain lion in self-defense after the animal attacked him Monday afternoon at Horsetooth Mountain Park. Rebecca Ferrell, a spokeswoman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, tells The...
SEWE Partners in Conservation Raffle
Choose from eight packages curated especially for SEWE! Raffle tickets can be purchased toward one or more packages of your choice. All items will be on display at the Ducks Unlimited Raffle Tent at Brittlebank Park throughout SEWE. Single tickets are $50 each. Bonus...
Enter to win a Traeger Pro-Series 22 Pellet Grill!
FEATURES OVERVIEW Digital Pro Controller with AGL Dual Meat Temperature Probes Extra Grill Rack 18 lbs. of hopper capacity Hopper Clean Out Sawhorse Chassis Side Lift Bar All-Terrain Wheels Easy to clean porcelain grill grates Powerful steel construction and durable...
Behind the High Fence
I hadn’t stepped inside a high fence since 1980. That’s when I had the chance to hunt Blue Mountain Forest, aka Corbin Park, in New Hampshire. The boars, whitetails and elk inside the enclosure had close to 27,000 acres of totally wild terrain. I actually went up...
Bipartisan Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus Leaders Introduce Bill to Modernize the Pittman-Robertson Act
January 31, 2019 (Washington, DC) - Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus (CSC) Co-Chair Congressman Austin Scott (GA), along with fellow CSC leaders Representatives Marc Veasey (TX), Debbie Dingell (MI), and Richard Hudson (NC), introduced the Modernizing the...
Tawakoni Blues
Four monstrous blue catfish with a combined weight of over 233 pounds, for an average of nearly 60-pounds – all in a morning’s fishing trip. “If you can find a day to put aside your Ruger/Trijicon/Hornady combo and come of out the deer woods, you need to meet me at...
The Starry Place Between the Antlers
The Starry Place Between the Antlers: Columbia Celebrates James Dickey www.jamesdickeyweekend.com/ Thursday, March 7 On the big stage at Trustus: THE INTERVIEW recreates the last unpublished James Dickey interview followed by the screening of the James Dickey classic,...
DU Recognizes 2019 World Wetlands Day
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Cities around the world will be celebrating World Wetlands Day (WWD) on Saturday, Feb. 2, and Ducks Unlimited (DU) is adding its voice to raise awareness of this important day. Since 1937, DU has conserved more than 14 million acres of wetlands and...
ALERT: National Wildlife Federation needs help to protect Boundary Waters
Moose depend on healthy lakes and wetlands for survival, like the vast and unspoiled Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Superior National Forest in Minnesota. Just over two years ago, wildlife supporters helped block the opening of a massive sulfide ore mine in...
Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Sheep Collaboration Gets Underway
JACKSON HOLE, WYO – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department in partnership with the Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation, the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center, and the University of Wyoming’s Ruckleshaus Institute is announcing a public engagement process to explore...
Northern Tier Part 2
At -18° the human body fails. Organs shut down. The brain ceases to function. Blood solidifies. At least that’s what I thought. The staff at Northern Tier High Adventure Camp in Ely, Minnesota seemed to know otherwise and quickly put me and Boy Scout Troop 137 to work...
Live from 2019 SHOT Show
Co-Founder of TRACT Optics, Jon Lacorte, (left) accepts the Optics Award of Excellence from Sporting Classics Senior Editor Ron Spomer. Senior Editor Doug Painter, (right) presents Steve Lovell of Garmin the Sporting Lifestyle Award of Excellence. CEO of Steyr Arms...
Escape to Cabin Bluff
I will always cherish the days spent along this historic stretch of the south-Georgia coast, where the currents of friendship forever run deep. I was tired. Very tired. Pleasingly, pleasantly tired after another long and gratifying day following the pointers and...
Mississippi Woman Bags 2 Deer With 1 Shot at 101 Years Old
MORGANTOWN, Miss. — A 101-year-old hunter in Mississippi is still at it, and even dropped two deer with one shot. Veteran hunter Bertha Vickers made the twofer during her first successful hunt at age 101, the Clarion Ledger reported . Getting two in one a few days...
Tahr-iffic Spring Break New Zealand Hunt!
First appeared in Ron Spomer Outdoors. A New Zealand hunt for Himalayan tahr, red stags, and chamois is the perfect spring break because March is early autumn in the southern hemisphere. Mountain tahr are easily accessible in snow-free zones. Red stags are roaring,...
Live From DSC: SC Awards of Excellence
2019 Handguns Awards of Excellence: Kimber 2019 Company of the Year: Hornady 2019 Hunting Lodge of the Year: Branded Rock Canyon 2019 Sporting Properties: LandLeader
Editor’s note: Where you can find PennHip screening for CHD
On January 10th, 2019, a story by Shawn Wayment DVM concerning canine hip dysplasia (CHD) appeared in Sporting Classics Daily. The article describes a new screening protocol called PennHip. One of our readers asked how she could locate a vet who offers this. Good...
National Wildlife’s 2018 Photo Contest Winners
DEVOTION TO DETAIL and an eye for light. Immense patience and technical skill. A bit of luck and a deep respect for nature. These gifts and more help photographers transform what might be ordinary moments into indelible scenes that help us understand and appreciate...
Eva Shockey’s Outdoor Digital Series is a Major Hit
Eva Shockey should be a familiar name for hunters and non-hunters alike. Originally from Vancouver Island, Canada, Shockey has charted her own hunting course here in the U.S., largely with the help of social media. She’s not simply the daughter of renowned hunter Jim...
Things That Make You Say “Hmmm”
When I fish alone, I sometimes slip into a meditative state. It’s as if I concentrate so intently upon the water before me that the mechanics of casting, mending, and reacting use a portioned section of my brain. The rest drifts on its own with no sense of time, no...
37th Annual Southeastern Wildlife Exposition February 15-17, 2019
Since 1983, Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE) has proudly presented the finest in wildlife art and the sporting life. Held in Charleston, South Carolina, SEWE is one of the largest and longest running art event of its kind and has become known as the premier...
Off Grid with Ralph and Vicki
Lanark, Illinois - Archer’s Choice Media® along with Pete Rogers Outdoors announces the airing of Off Grid with Ralph and Vicki™ Podcast hosted by Pete Rogers. Off Grid with Ralph and Vicki™ will be hosted by longtime outdoor writer photographer and speaker, Pete...
SCI Receives Sporting Classics Award
Duncan Grant, Publisher, and Doug Painter, Senior Editor, of Sporting Classics magazine presented Safari Club International with the 2019 Sporting Heritage Award of Excellence in their 17th annual Awards of Excellence salute. Nominees for the 2019 competition were...
Canine Hip Dysplasia and PennHip
Robert G. Wehle wrote something in his excellent book Snakefoot: The Making of a Champion that has really struck me. His idea is that if you breed a dog for athletic function and not for structure (conformation), you are less likely to see orthopedic developmental...
Live From SCI-Reno: SC Awards of Excellence
Sporting Classics Publisher Duncan Grant (right) and Senior Editor Doug Painter present the magazine's 2019 Shooting Sports Award of Excellence to Pam Young, owner of Alamo Sporting Arms. Sporting Classics Publisher Duncan Grant (right) and Senior Editor Doug Painter...
The passing of Tom Julian
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Founder, Father and Friend, Tom Julian. The huge outpouring of love, support and prayers during this difficult time are synonymous with how many lives were touched by Tom and the Julian family. Please keep the...
The Bob-Tailed Doe
You have no idea how many times she’s messed me up, mere moments before I was about to shoot a buck. “She’s at it again, or should I say still!” scowled my brother Glenn. “Showed up at my creek blind this morning. She came quartering in, up wind. Soon as she stepped...
Introducing SportDOG Brand X-Series E-Collars
Improving upon our most trusted line of training collars, the X-Series has 21 levels of static correction, giving you even more flexibility and precision when training your sporting dog. In addition to increased levels, all X-Series systems feature tone, vibration,...
First Deer for Wyatt
A bit before dawn, Wyatt Grimmelt and his dad, Tony, had been delivered to their stand along a logging road through a cut over forest by a swamp close to the Edisto River. They were hunting out of Deerfield Plantation, Hugh Walters’ hunting lodge in St. George, S.C....
Long Live the King
Rather than disrespecting a trophy, a bit of tasteful decoration can help to establish him as part of the family. For seven summers, the king enjoyed the adoration of his subjects, the ladies of his court literally fawning before him. His graying cape was stretched...
Canada Pays Hunters To Kill Moose
Canada pays hunters to shoot moose? Just when I think I’ve got modern Homo sapiens figured out, they muddy the waters. Consider the $731,000 Canadians have spent hiring First Nations people — Mi’kmaq hunters, according to the news report I read — to “hunt” moose that...
Announcing the Winner of the Wren & Ivy Duffle Giveaway
Congratulations to Mike Murphy for winning the Wren & Ivy Duffle Giveaway. Be sure to follow and subscribe to Sporting Classics Daily for your chance to win our next prize!
It Was the Dog’s Fault
December 17th, 2018 Mrs. William Crawford Grant 102 Gold Street, Cloud City, Heaven Dear Grandmother, I apologize. Yes, I know you said never hunt or fish on Sundays. Yes, ma’am you raised me better than that. But I was thinking that you might make an exception just...
Field Dispatch – The Hunting Commute of 1/2/19
As six wood ducks banked and dropped low over the head of Lukas Allen this morning, I could sense the impatience with his watch. Only a few more minutes listening to that whiny whistling and the rapid but somehow synchronized beating of wings before things would be...
Hunting the Bezoar Ibex
Bezoar ibex average 140 pounds and possess extremely long, characteristically knobby horns in relation to body size, making it one of the most attractive members of the ibex family. With my rifle resting on a suitcase-sized boulder, I could not get situated for a shot...
Not Your Average Outdoor Influencer
In the age of social media, few outdoor accounts truly stand out and leave one feeling inspired. In an increasingly crowded space, authenticity is quite rare. The rise of outdoor influencers has equally good and bad consequences—with the latter getting more attention....
Some time, before it’s all said and done, treat yourself to Delphi
It is not hyperbole to say that to be at Delphi Lodge in Connemara, the furthest outpost of Ireland’s greatest western region, is to be surely alive. Be it just barely, it isn’t quite kitsch to talk about such a place in so romantic a voice. Delphi’s poetry is earned....
Modern Fish Act Headed to the White House
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the Modern Fish Act. Officially known as the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2017, the passage is a major victory for the American Sportfishing Association (ASA) and our...
Ringing Anticosti’s Bell
A late November nor’easter bludgeoned Anticosti into patinaed greys and smoky lodens. Squalling bands of horizontal snow bowed tall and scraggly firs hard to lee. Foot thick epaulets of heavy rime worn by branches of stubby spruce would have glisten had there been the...
12 Year Old Boy Takes First Elk Thanks to NFL QB
Other than a BB gun, 12-year-old John Gegen had never fired a rifle of any kind. That is, until he went on a recent elk hunt to Colorado where he shot and dropped a nice bull. That adventure happened thanks to Carson Wentz, quarterback of the Super Bowl champion...
Announcing Our 2019 January February Issue
Cover Photo: Jungle Impasse by John Seerey-Lester Features: TRUE BLUE With each of us, Grandma passed on her love for nature, hunting and the color of blue. Dr. T. C. Jennings DUEL ON TABERNACLE MOUNTAIN Partridge and setter, each born to best the other. Mike Gaddis...
The Blaser F16 Intuition is the Women’s Shotgun from Germany
Think of the Blaser F16 Intuition as the classic power suit of women’s shotguns. Free of gimmicks and doo-dads, the Blaser F16 Intuition’s plain gun-metal gray receiver is accessorized by only a discreet logo. If you appreciate understated over/unders that exude...
Elk Hunt at Two-Ocean Pass
TR was especially pleased with the bull, but what he couldn’t know was that he would bag eight more elk, including an even bigger trophy. Clad in buckskin hunting shirt, moccasins and leggings, the hunter crept silently toward the bull elk and his harem as they grazed...
Parker Bows says Goodbye
From Parker Bows - Parker Bows has made the difficult decision to cease operations. We have explored what we believe to be all possible options to continue operations in one form or another but to no avail. It has truly been an honor to have been a part of your...
Why We Miss Birds in Upland Hunting
The pointer was facing me, and I could see that he was locked up tighter than a tick. His head was high, his tail set was ramrod straight, and there was no question there was a covey of quail under his nose. The birds were between him and me, and since it was my turn...