Picking a Goat Gun

Picking a Goat Gun

Choosing the right rifle for mountain goat hunting is a matter of necessity, not preference.

Life-Size and Lifelike

Life-Size and Lifelike

Karl Lansing’s sculptures range from table lamp-sized to taller than the average man, but all of his work is larger than life.

Guy Harvey’s Greatest Canvas

Guy Harvey’s Greatest Canvas

Guy Harvey’s paintings have been applied to everything from cotton to cornhole boards, but the Norwegian Escape opens his artwork to an entirely different medium.

Inside the Danger Zone

Inside the Danger Zone

Saving yourself from a bear attack means avoidance. Saving bears from extinction means getting up close.

Telling Teal

Telling Teal

Blue-winged teal change into their winter plumage roughly one month later than other ducks. Don’t be surprised by an early season limit of only “hens.”

Readers’ Quotes

Readers’ Quotes

A selection of some of the best reader-submitted quotes from Sporting Classics.

Devil Dog

Devil Dog

An urban coyote in Minnesota is jumping fences and attacking pets. Five dogs are dead already.

Duck Dynasties

Duck Dynasties

Two waterfowling companies are merging, while two are strengthening the ties that already bind.

Who Watches the Watchers?

Who Watches the Watchers?

The EPA has taken responsibility for the Gold King disaster, but local fish were in trouble long before the spill.

The Southern Gun

The Southern Gun

Few firearms embody a region better than the side-by-side shotgun does the American South.

Bob White

Bob White

A special poem for the upland bird hunter.

Photo Essay: Shoalies

Photo Essay: Shoalies

Smaller than smallmouths but full of fight, shoal bass are native only to a handful of streams in the Southeast.

2018 Ammunition Review

2018 Ammunition 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...

Texas Tough

Texas Tough

Don’t mess with Texas, or Texas armadillos.

Hit That Deer

Hit That Deer

Research says the best way to avoid serious injury is to put the pedal down.

Gunning for Drones

Gunning for Drones

A Kentucky man was tired of drones flying over his property. So he shot one.

Death by Turkey

Death by Turkey

It flies in the face of every hunter safety lesson ever given.

King of the West

King of the West

Once elk hunting gets in your blood, it will stay with you forever.