New Hampshire’s “Hunt for the Hungry” Food Bank Program
New Hampshire hunters can share their fall harvest with the needy through the “Hunt for the Hungry” program at the New Hampshire Food Bank, a program of Catholic Charities NH. Once again this fall, the New Hampshire Food Bank is collecting donations of processed deer...
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
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...
Tips for Properly and Ethically Disposing of Deer Remains
Disposal of deer remains may not be the highlight of a hunting trip, but it is an important aspect of hunting, particularly in maintaining the hunter's image. Properly disposed deer remains will soon be taken care of by decomposition and insects because nature wastes...
Hunting Blinds From 1960-2020
Luke Clayton and Larry Weishuhn reflect upon just how much deer stands have changed since the sixties when they both began hunting deer. I was recently recording “Campfire Talk,” the weekly radio segment that Larry Weishuhn (aka “Mr. Whitetail”) and I have produced...
Invasive Lizard Species Concerns SCDNR Officials
The number of invasive tegu lizards, a species popular in the pet trade, continues to increase across South Carolina, especially in the Midlands. South Carolina documented its first black and white tegu lizard, a species popular in the pet trade, in Lexington after a...
Mentoring Youth Hunters
It is up to the next generation of dedicated conservation hunters to protect, enhance and defend America's millions of acres of public land. Richard stood five feet, two inches and wrestled. He wrestled on the mat in college, wrestled steer carcasses from the cooler...
Why Do Women Hunt?
In her book Why Women Hunt, K.J. Houtman features stories of some of the women who are contributing to the growing percentage of women in America who hunt. If you’ve ever had the notion to take a woman hunting, you’re onto something pretty special. As K.J. Houtman...
Wisconsin Girl, 11, Harvests 700-pound Black Bear
An 11-year-old girl in Wisconsin recently killed her first black bear, and it may just beat the record for the largest black bear harvested in the state. On opening day of her first bear hunt and accompanied by her grandfather, the sixth-grader spotted her first black...
Get More for Less with Sporting Classics Digital
When it comes to our digital edition of Sporting Classics magazine, the phrase "less is more" applies in more ways than one. To some, "digital" reading seems less tangible, less interactive or even less sophisticated than thumbing through crisp pages of a print...