Announcing the New Sept/Oct 2016 Issue!
Enjoy 240 pages of tigers, moose, Cape buffalo, wolves, and more!
All-American Archery
Three Americans win silver in the team event . . . then face off against each other in the individual shoots.
Olympic Trap Shooter Wins Bronze in Rio Event
This is the second bronze medal for American Corey Cogdell-Unrein.
Craigslist Reunites Fisherman with Lost Prosthetic Leg
Two canoers helped a Wisconsin man get back on his, er, feet.
Cross-Country Fly Fishing, Pt. 1
The most important adventures demand only the finest gear.
After the Wild Sheep in Altai and Mongolia
“I made out a suspicious-looking brown speck, then another, then a third, till I could count 40 of them some two miles below us. On more careful inspection we found them to be all rams, lying on the plateau in open ground.”
Olympic Shooter Nabs First Gold Medal of Rio Games
Nineteen-year-old American Virginia Thrasher received the first gold medal of this year’s Olympic Games, topping the podium for her ten-meter air rifle win.
Running the Hunt
Getting in shape for elk country? Make your workout pull double duty by using it to scout new terrain.
There Are No Trees
Shooting a woodcock is as much about what you ignore as what you focus on.
Marvelous Creations
“Yep. That’s right. Bird dogs didn’t just happen, you know. They were invented.”
Bait & Switch
The author’s deep, dark fly fishing secret will make purists cringe.
Ruger Announces Match Campaign to Benefit the NRA
Ruger will match up to $5 million to help the NRA protect the 2nd Amendment in this important election year.
Hunting the Land
“Perhaps we grew used to not seeing many deer. Perhaps we were old men who did not care about the killing anymore. What could have been the reason why we kept going back?”
USFWS Expanding Hunting, Fishing Opportunities on Wildlife Refuges
The changes will affect more than a dozen refuges across nine states.
New 3-for-$35 Book Bundle!
A new trio of Sporting Classics books at a discounted price, all in celebration of our 35th anniversary.
S&W Buys Crimson Trace
Smith will pay $95 million to acquire the light and laser company.
Corpus Christi Marina is a Showplace for Sport Fish Restoration Grants
Anglers helped fund the marina’s improvements through excise taxes. Now they’re reaping the rewards.
Millennials Less Likely to Support Gun Control than Older Voters
“Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example . . .”
Hot Heads
You’re never too experienced an outdoorsman to neglect the signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Rabbit Fever
“Rabbit Fever is the common name given to a bacterial disease called tularemia. The Rabbit Fever I have, however, is the desire to hunt more species of rabbits in more states.”
Dubarry Announces New Autumn/Winter Line
You’re an affluent hunter. Look the part with these new offerings from Dubarry.
Bentley Creates a Fly Fisherman’s Dream SUV
This 12-cylinder Bentayga has everything you’ll need to hit the water . . . for the low cost of $350,000.
New Lynn Bogue Hunt Book Coming Soon from Sporting Classics
A new coffee-table book celebrating the most prolific and popular sporting artist of the 20th century.
Must-Have Fly Rods, Reels, and Accessories for 2017
IFTD showcased the best new products from leading names in the fly fishing world.
New Rinehart Decoy is (Literally) Turning Heads
Aside from her stunningly realistic looks, the Doloma Doe’s strongest attribute is her natural head turning—and neck turning—abilities.
NRA Partners with Gander Mountain for Customer Savings
The two organizations are joining forces to promote the Second Amendment and firearm safety, and hunters and shooters are benefitting as a result.
The Browns of Browns
Fishing through mining country in Colorado’s Browns Canyon National Monument.
Brite-Strike Partners with Jimmy Houston for New “Line Lights”
The LED devices provide light where there’s “none from the sun.”
The Suicide Duck
A fishing lure that’s almost as good as the real thing.
The Gun Shop
“When you start looking for a specific Parker, you will find everything under the sun that you don’t need . . . but want.”
Copley’s Sporting Sale To Be Held July 24
A wide range of American, folk, sporting, wildlife, and Western art.
Best of the Show
The industry voted; these are the best new products debuting at ICAST this year.
Costa’s Recycled Shark Provides Important Kickoff to ICAST
Those who attend this year’s ICAST will have their attention grabbed as soon as they step in the door.
Off to ICAST
Sporting Classics Daily is heading to the largest sportfishing convention in the world, sending back stories and video for those who can’t attend.
Into Africa
Six paintings by Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert will be auctioned at Jackson Hole Art Auction’s 2016 event.
Navajo Nation Opens Largest Eagle Aviary in the U.S.
The Navajo Nation’s respect and admiration for the golden eagle led to a new aviary in the bird’s honor.
Fishing Cuba’s Garden of the Queen
“Whether you’re wading the flats, exploring the mangroves, or waiting for tarpon to make their daily journey around a point, you are casting to fish that have probably never seen a fly.”
New Mexico’s Novel Way to Engage Youth Hunters
Special cow elk tags are being sold to youth hunters, both residents and nonresidents, to promote big game hunting and manage the resource.
Home for the Hunt
The author returns to his favorite pheasant hunting lodge on the Dakota prairie.
Gamo Acquires Daisy
What does this mean for the future of BB guns?
Freedom Fly
The miraculous recovery of America’s national bird.
DU Heads to Daytona
Ducks Unlimited is lending its name to a special paint scheme at this year’s Coke Zero 400 NASCAR race.
Hunt the Last Day
Health problems teach the author to cherish each hunt like it’s his last.
Bluegrass Grand Slam!
Hold onto your hat. Quail, chukars, pheasants, and Huns in profuse salvos over handsome dog-work, with a no-limit bag.
Boy Catches N.C. Catfish Record
The blue catfish record has been broken three times in six months at the same lake.
Hunting the Wild Tusker in the Ardennes
“To stand before the giant boar with his keen tusks, and then to deal the death stroke with a spear, requires great nerve and skill.”
Hunting Books in the American Sportsman’s Library
The second of a two-part review.
How I Killed the Tiger
A hunter’s near-fatal encounter with a tiger.
Mother Saves Child from Mountain Lion
It’s a miracle any of the family members survived this ordeal.
Trail Goats
“I definitely won’t be here in the winter, but I’m here now and one of the goats knows it. It looks at me for a long time. I look back.”