Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey Visits Award-Winning Rio Piedra Lodge as Part of SCI’s “Share the Impact” Auction
Officials from Dorsey Pictures announce that the encore presentation of this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey – airing Saturday at 12:30 p.m. EST – features world-class upland hunting at the famed Rio Piedra Plantation, where fast-action bobwhite quail take center stage. The hunt was donated by Rio Piedra owners Sam and Beth Atchison as part of SCI’s Share the Impact auction, which raised over a half-million dollars to support guides and outfitters negatively impacted by the global pandemic. The winning bidder was David Gardner of Brays Island, South Carolina, who won the opportunity to experience a televised hunt with Dorsey and 4-star USMC General Walt Boomer at the award-winning lodge.
Rio Piedra is the only 3-time recipient of the Orvis Wingshooting Lodge of the Year Award, and the remarkable dogs and hard-flying birds showcased in this week’s episode are the primary reason for the unique distinction. This week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey is a special treat for upland-hunting fans as three friends enjoy spectacular wingshooting action to support a good cause.
Host Chris Dorsey is among the world’s most widely traveled sportsmen having hunted and fished on five continents and he’s served in board leadership and advisory roles of numerous conservation and sporting advocacy organizations. He’s a member of the Outdoor Legends Hall of Fame and is a recipient of the Ray Scott Trailblazer Award as well as the Curt Gowdy Memorial Award. He’s a biologist, author of 12 books on outdoor subjects, is a past editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Ducks Unlimited magazines and his work has appeared in most of the outdoor magazines in the English-speaking world as well as National Geographic, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and the Robb Report.
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey is sponsored by Winchester Ammunition, Winchester Repeating Arms, Sporting Classics Magazine, Walther Arms, Riton Optics, Umarex Airguns, Safari Club International, Negrini Cases, Muddy Blinds, Stealth Cam, and Cold Steel Knives.
Dorsey has spent the past 30 years investigating and chronicling the finest bird hunting destinations on the planet while producing nearly 60 outdoor adventure television series. In the process, his teams have amassed a library of more than 100,000 hours of HD footage and nearly 150,000 photographs, making Call Time (the book and companion film set) an unmatched celebration of the world of wingshooting.
The stunning, large-format book chronicles 18 different wingshooting adventures on four continents. Its chapters feature pheasant, bobwhite quail, ruffed grouse, woodcock, greywing francolin, ocellated turkey, spurfowl, sandgrouse, duck, goose, perdiz, dove, and driven shoots for red-legged partridge, guineafowl, pheasants and grouse. Shop Now
