Four Timothy Murphy Poems

Four Timothy Murphy Poems

The recurring theme in Timothy Murphy's poetry is hunting and the cruel and ruthless innocence of nature, conflating the virtues of hunting with religious values. In 1951, two recently married teachers in Hibbing, Minnesota, paid a young boy named Bobby Zimmerman ten...

The Slam of Slams

The Slam of Slams

This week on Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey... We look at a collection of Chris' remarkable slams - the North America 29, sheep slam, turkey world slam and the spiral horns slam. Hunting slams are not about collecting trophies or checking off a to-do list - they...

The Sacrifice

The Sacrifice

No whites nor shred of camo, yet Dad and I inched forward toward a Dall sheep ram just over the ridge and across a small valley.   It was the twenty third day of our hunt. For weeks we had been living like monks high in the rocky monastery of Alaska’s Chugach...

Mule Deer Adventures

Mule Deer Adventures

A superlative trophy reminds us that killing doesn’t make someone a hunter. The winter’s first storm had busted out of the Arctic like a death row inmate with nothing to lose. For three days it ran roughshod along both flanks of the Canadian Rockies, emptying highways...