Fishing a Flood

Fishing a Flood

The weather forecast said intermittent drizzle. Temperatures were up and the water down, so I thought it might perk up the fish a bit. I decided to wade wet. Little did I know just how wet. Late in the day, the sky unexpectedly flushed and visibility dropped to less...

Actor Killed By Stupidity

Actor Killed By Stupidity

From our latest issue: An excerpt from "Actor Killed by Stupidity." by Jameson Parker Allan Seager once wrote that time makes fiction out of our memories. That would be a fine thing if time made us all heroes, courageous and stoic, solitary and enduring, riding off...

Announcing Our 2018 Guns & Hunting Issue

Announcing Our 2018 Guns & Hunting Issue

It’s that time of the year again. Hunters are heading into the woods in pursuit of big, small, and winged game, and it’s also the season when we publish our special Guns & Hunting issue. Dedicated to everything that makes outdoorsmen and women look forward to...

SCI Members Making a Difference

SCI Members Making a Difference

First in the Series Life Member - Olivia Nalos Opre Meet Olivia Nalos Opre, a Wildlife Conservationist & Advocate, International Hunting Consultant, International Wildlife Conservation Council Member, Television Personality, 2014 SCI Diana Award Recipient,...

Wyoming Officials Provide Details of Fatal Grizzly Attack

Wyoming Officials Provide Details of Fatal Grizzly Attack

Casper Star Tribune JACKSON — The grizzly bear that caused tragedy high in the Teton Wilderness never let up from a full-bore charge before hitting the Jackson Hole outfitter she fatally mauled. When the approximately 250-pound sow bruin first came into view, pounding...

2018 Rifle Review

2018 Rifle Review

Our 25th annual review of sporting rifles and ammunition that offer the ultimate in accuracy and dependability.   Howa HS Precision Rifle The HS Precision Rifle is constructed to fulfill the demands of today’s most uncompromising hunters. The stocks are built one...

Anticosti Anticipation

Anticosti Anticipation

L’Île-D’Anticosti has many moods. When fog settles in from the Atlantic, it frowns. Yet on each spruce needle it leaves a diamond. As morning sun melts the mist, each droplet sparkles with increasing joi de vivre. You can see it in the deer. With such hesitancy they...

Ruger Mourns Death of Former CEO William B. Ruger, Jr.

Ruger Mourns Death of Former CEO William B. Ruger, Jr.

Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. (NYSE: RGR) mourns the loss of William B. Ruger, Jr., former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ruger. Mr. Ruger, who was the second CEO of the Company and the son of the Company’s founder, passed away this past weekend....

Kevin’s Southern Game Fair

Kevin’s Southern Game Fair

The purpose of Kevin’s annual Game Fair is to share our love of the outdoors with the community, to benefit the heritage of our city, and support the preservation of the Longleaf Pine Forest and Bobwhite Quail Habitat of Thomasville, GA and surrounding areas. Please...

Announcing the Winner of the REC TEC Giveaway

Announcing the Winner of the REC TEC Giveaway

Congratulations to Irv Stark, winner of Sporting Classics recent REC TEC Trailblazer RT-340 Wood Pellet Grill Giveaway. The Trailblazer features REC TEC’s Wi-Pellet WiFi Technology and two built-in meat probes that plug directly into the Trailblazer for precise...

Iowa’s Pheasant Population is Second Highest in a Decade

Iowa’s Pheasant Population is Second Highest in a Decade

BOONE – State wildlife experts are predicting Iowa’s pheasant hunters can expect to find more birds this fall when they head to the fields. That forecast is based on a recently completed statewide population survey of pheasants, quail, partridge, cottontail rabbits...

Invading Greystone Castle

Invading Greystone Castle

We discovered a wealth of gamebirds and grand bucks! “Pheasant, behind!” shouted Cody Mohler. I turned, shouldering my 20-gauge Ruger Red Label. But before I could get on the long-tailed rooster another flushed, this one much closer to where I had my shotgun pointed....

7 Tips for Staying Safe in Bear Country

7 Tips for Staying Safe in Bear Country

Below is a news release from the Beaverhead-Deer Lodge National Forest in southwest Montana. Archery hunters are, by design, good at sneaking up on bears unobserved. They also provide bears with an attractive food source in the form of gut piles and carcasses. Follow...

Hunters Must Expect to See Bears

Hunters Must Expect to See Bears

With Montana's bow hunting and upland game bird seasons opening Sept. 1, remember that slow moving, quiet or game-calling, scented and camouflaged hunters will soon be sharing the landscape with the state's even stealthier bears that may be stalking similar prey. It...

Off Grid Ranch Promises Wild Life

Off Grid Ranch Promises Wild Life

So… we might be nuts. We’re buying an off grid ranch.  Well, my wife and I already know we’re nuts, so this latest move just confirms it. At the age when most Baby Boomers are cashing Social Security checks, wintering in Arizona, and trying to remember what it was...

Steyr Arms Launches Its Big Buck Down! Giveaway Program

Steyr Arms Launches Its Big Buck Down! Giveaway Program

BESSEMER, Ala. (Sept. 7, 2018) — Steyr Arms is celebrating the fall deer season with a month-long Big Buck Down! Giveaway program that will award an amazing prize package every 10 days in September. Each prize package will be highlighted by either a Steyr or Merkel...

Senate Unanimously Passes Sagebrush Habitat Bill

Senate Unanimously Passes Sagebrush Habitat Bill

Salt Lake City, Utah: The U.S. Senate passed Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Martin Heinrich’s Sage-Grouse and Mule Deer Habitat Conservation and Restoration Act by unanimous consent yesterday. The legislation, S. 1417, will help expedite important habitat restoration...

The Greatest Deer Hunting Book Ever Now Available!

The Greatest Deer Hunting Book Ever Now Available!

There’s something about the deer-hunting experience, indefinable yet undeniable, which lends itself to the telling of exciting tales. The Greatest Deer Hunting Book Ever offers abundant examples of the manner in which the quest for whitetails extends beyond the field...

Enjoy A Few Minutes of Puppy Love

Enjoy A Few Minutes of Puppy Love

Thanks to Rick Snipes of Snipes Ranch for sharing this video of his pups and trainer Raul Lujan as they go for a little morning romp. This should brighten your day!  

Essential Africa Safari Gear

Essential Africa Safari Gear

Having now made some 15 safaris to five different African countries, I feel confident in defining the essential safari gear a hunter really needs for a plains game safari. Rifles, optics, cartridges, bullets, packs, slings, boots, clothes, shooting sticks. It’s less...

Washington Judge Blocks Kill Order On Wolves to Save Cattle

Washington Judge Blocks Kill Order On Wolves to Save Cattle

SPOKANE, Wash. — A judge in Washington has issued an emergency order blocking the state from killing members of a wolf pack that have been preying on cattle. The Department of Fish and Wildlife had announced Monday morning that it would immediately begin efforts to...

An Afternoon at Hudson Farm Club

An Afternoon at Hudson Farm Club

You’re invited to an afternoon at Hudson Farm!  Meet Lou Pasqua, SEWE’s 2019 Featured Artist. Saturday, September 22nd, Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE) invites you to an exclusive event at the private Hudson Farm Club in Andover, New Jersey. Spend an afternoon...

Sporting Brakes

Sporting Brakes

From the latest 2018 September/October issue of Sporting Classics Magazine, on newsstands now! Not a subscriber? Click Here! Going off-grid just got a bit more luxurious with this go anywhere base camp. When the grim reaper finally figures out that I gave him a fake...

Recovering America’s Wildlife Act

Recovering America’s Wildlife Act

In partnership with the coalition of organizations, businesses and fish and wildlife agencies that make up the Alliance for America’s Wildlife, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is working to advance legislation that would direct $1.3 billion in much needed funding to...

In Memory of Senator John McCain, Former CSC Member

In Memory of Senator John McCain, Former CSC Member

On August 25, Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC) Member the Honorable John McCain passed away at the age of 81. As a proud member of the CSC and representative of Arizona, Senator McCain supported multiple bills to help protect and advance hunting, angling and the...

The Unheard Voice

The Unheard Voice

These videos are making a splash on social media, and carrying the message of sustainable use to the general public.

Hunting Lessons

Hunting Lessons

Mountain bluebirds. Scruffy muleys shedding gray for brown.  Standing ovations. Colder than I expected; seeing my breath, rubbing nipped ears, stretching complaining toes. End of April. Weather in the Rockies is quixotic, if nothing else. “Don’t like the weather? Wait...

Bored Beagles

Bored Beagles

Beagles are far too energetic to stay shut up indoors, but summer heat often requires exceptions to be made.

Weatherby, Inc. Sponsors Wyoming Women’s Antelope Hunt

Weatherby, Inc. Sponsors Wyoming Women’s Antelope Hunt

LARAMIE, WY-2018 marks a new chapter for Weatherby, Inc. as the company will be relocating to Sheridan, Wyoming. Already, Weatherby is engaging with the community by committing to a Hunter-level sponsorship for the 2018 Wyoming Women's Antelope Hunt at the Ranch at...

Texas Hog Hunting 101

Texas Hog Hunting 101

A decade or so ago, from the close of deer season until the onset of warm weather in late spring, hunters from across the country would pour into the Lone Star State. They were coming to take advantage of the awesome wild hog hunting that takes place from the dense...

Ramblings

Ramblings

The good gents from the Mother Country had come to hunt deer. But little did they realize, one of them was about to encounter the most fearsome creature in Florida.

Kimber’s Mountain Ascent Rifle Review

Kimber’s Mountain Ascent Rifle Review

Earlier this year the folks a Kimber asked what rifle I was interested in shooting.  I’d just returned from putting in some serious miles in the mountains of South Africa and was looking to shave some weight from my gear before going back for another round.  I figured...

Holts Auction 20th September Lot Number 1450

Holts Auction 20th September Lot Number 1450

AN EXCEPTIONAL AMERICAN CIVIL WAR THEMED 12-BORE SELF-OPENING PINLESS SIDELOCK EJECTOR ENGRAVED BY ALAN PORTSMOUTH The rib gold-inlaid ‘HENRY ATKIN’ and engraved ‘LONDON. ENGLAND.’ with Confederate style gold line frogging design at the breech end, the tubes carved at...