Big Five $1,500 Sweepstakes

Big Five $1,500 Sweepstakes

African Sporting Creations offers the finest assortment of hand-made, safari-inspired products found anywhere. Whether you choose a set of their award winning African Shooting Sticks, an Arno Bernard knife, a pair of Courteney Cape buffalo boots, a hand-sewn leather...

Florida Man Arrested for Poaching Huge Buck

Florida Man Arrested for Poaching Huge Buck

From Martin County Sheriffs Office Facebook page: Martin County Sheriff's Office tracks down Miami man who illegally killed a potential record class 23-point buck on state property. 54-year old Mario Palacio had no idea our deputies, who are also avid sportsmen, keep...

From Hunting Companion to Unsung Hero

From Hunting Companion to Unsung Hero

Sporting dogs are prized for their temperament, intelligence and natural ability as hunting partners, but did you know they’re also treasured for those same traits as service companions? Here, the latest Purina Pro Plan Outdoor Wire issue explores the different ways...

2018 Ammo Review

2018 Ammo Review

Our 25th annual review of sporting ammunition that offer the ultimate in accuracy and dependability. Norma USA Tipstrike has set a new benchmark in terminal ballistics—the devastating effect that a bullet has on medium to big game. Precision engineered for optimal...

Bighorn Sheep Just One Feature of the 30th Big Game Awards

Bighorn Sheep Just One Feature of the 30th Big Game Awards

MISSOULA, Mont. (October 9, 2018) - The Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, Missouri, will be the site for the Boone and Crockett Club's 30th Big Game Awards exhibit and celebration in August of 2019. Today the Club is projecting that...

Elhew Says Farewell

Elhew Says Farewell

“To All of Our Friends in the Sporting Dog Community…” It is with great sadness — but with the unshakeable conviction that we are doing the right and necessary thing — that we announce our decision to close Elhew Kennels and retire the Elhew “brand.” The Elhew prefix...

A Special Dove Hunt with Old Friends

A Special Dove Hunt with Old Friends

During the past 56 years, give or take a year or two, I’ve hunted dove from the prairie of North Dakota to the brush country of Mexico. I’ve enjoyed some red-hot shoots and some hunts where just ‘being there’ was the reward. I’ve hunted with countless fine people and...

Never a Stranger

Never a Stranger

A new fly shop opened in town, so on the first available Saturday morning, one too hot to fish, I visited to meet the owner, talk fish, and pick up some fly-tying groceries. As I entered, I paused momentarily to let my eyes adjust from the glare outside. A large black...

Michigan Hybrid Sunfish Record Broken

Michigan Hybrid Sunfish Record Broken

STEVENSVILLE, MI - Southwestern Michigan has produced a new state record, breaking the old record set 30 years ago. Joel Heeringa of St. Joseph caught the hybrid sunfish in Lake Anne in Grand Mere State Park in Berrien County on July 9th. The record fish, which...

Excerpt from Blood Red Mackinaw by Ryan Stalvey

Excerpt from Blood Red Mackinaw by Ryan Stalvey

Inch by inch, the afternoon sun steadily dissolves, casting an orange and pink haze over the sparsely populated landscape of rural Pennsylvania. From the front window of a seedy boarding house, Curt Sloan peers through the unclean glass panes, then disappears back...

Judicial Review Shouldn’t Trump Wildlife Management

Judicial Review Shouldn’t Trump Wildlife Management

Taking a deeper dive into the Yellowstone Grizzly dispute. A federal judge in Montana recently ruled to reimpose Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections on grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). This motion comes after...

Illegal Poaching Puts Giraffes At Risk In Africa

Illegal Poaching Puts Giraffes At Risk In Africa

Giraffes are among wildlife species adversely affected by increased illegal poaching in Botswana. This follows the banning of legal hunting there several years ago. The information was included recently during a presentation to the International Wildlife Conservation...

Excerpt from “Incoming” by Robert Parvin Williams

Excerpt from “Incoming” by Robert Parvin Williams

In the last light of the safari’s final day, Ian Batchelor and I followed blood and hoof prints into a thicket. The buffalo could not be much further: both shots had hit well, and we had already trailed him nearly half a mile. William, the tracker, crouched low just...

Kevin’s and James Purdey & Son’s 3rd Annual Game Fair

Kevin’s and James Purdey & Son’s 3rd Annual Game Fair

Preserving the Outdoor Lifestyle November 8-11, Greenwood Plantation Campus Thomasville, Georgia— Announcing, Kevin’s and James Purdey & Son’s 3rd Annual Game Fair, an authentic sporting lifestyle event on historic Greenwood Plantation Campus benefiting...

Roosevelt Fire: The Two Hunters Who Were Nearly Burned Alive

Roosevelt Fire: The Two Hunters Who Were Nearly Burned Alive

This article originally appeared on BuckRail.com SUBLETTE COUNTY, WYO – When Steve Knezovich and his son Dakota first saw what would become the baddest wildfire in the nation right now it was torching a few trees, no more than three acres. They noticed a wisp of smoke...

Introducing the Autumn Catalog from Sporting Classics

Introducing the Autumn Catalog from Sporting Classics

Introducing the Autumn Catalog from Sporting Classics! In it, you’ll find the latest items from our Sporting Classics Store, our new Knife of the Year, our new deer hunting book, and much more. Click HERE to view!  

Big Win For Hunters: CA Governor Vetoes Anti-Hunting Proposal

Big Win For Hunters: CA Governor Vetoes Anti-Hunting Proposal

California Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr. vetoed a bill that would have prevented hunters from possessing and in some cases importing the named African species in the bill, including parts and products, lawfully harvested in Africa. "Safari Club International...

RMEF, SAF Oppose Yellowstone Grizzly Ruling

RMEF, SAF Oppose Yellowstone Grizzly Ruling

MISSOULA, Mont.—The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation disagree with a judge’s decision to vacate the delisting of the Greater Yellowstone grizzly population by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The ruling places the population back on...

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...