An Artist In Big Game Country: Moose Mishap
This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. This day we were in the heart of moose country with an ideal landscape spread before us, glowing with the golden red of a northern sunset. I worked quickly,...
The Rogue Sow
An excerpt as it appears in Alaska Bears, Stirred and Shaken. Jake guides two German guest hunters after an irritated grizzly. I took two of the younger Germans, my fine Labrador, Max, and an assistant guide, Andy, down the valley to the south. The bear was maybe...
Good News, Bad News & the Gray Ghost
It was 1998 and my wife’s uncle had received exclusive permission from a farmer’s widow to hunt a hundred or more acres of farmland bordered by swamp and hardwood forest in Duplin County, North Carolina. He’d hunted the land since opening day, and for most of that...
An Excerpt From: In The Land Of The Lakota
Mike Jr. was going for a whitetail he’d been after for a couple of years. He was hoping to climb up a certain tree stand close to the buck’s travel corridor. But the shifting wind changed all that. “There was actually one deer in there that was bigger than that one,”...
An Artist In Big Game Country: Charged By A Caribou!
This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. So often have I heard the tales of hunters being attacked by moose, bears, etc., that with every trip I looked for some similar adventure to befall me. With the...
Sporting Classics TV Episode 7 Teaser
This week’s episode features Sporting Classics author and contributor Ron Spomer. Ron and his wife Betsy recently purchased a ranch in southern Idaho, and Ron spends his first hunting season patterning the giant mule deer that migrate through this new property. Find...
Solving the Feral Hog Problem One Bite at a Time
In 1540, Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto imported the first wild pigs to the Americas. As the swine escaped, De Soto’s gift became a real-life trojan horse and today there are an estimated 5-7 million feral hogs in North America with about half living in Texas. ...
Response to Restrictions on Use of Deer Lures
States like MN and PA have implemented bans on the use of urine-based scents in CWD management zones. These are products that have been widely used by hunters for many decades to help them be more successful in the field. These bans take away a great tradition and...
Sporting Classics TV Episode 5 Teaser
In this week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey we're drifting through the high plains of Eastern New Mexico to hunt the fastest game species on our continent: Pronghorn. Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey airs on Outdoor Channel Saturdays at 12:30 pm,...
Operation Eastbound Dispatch 3
Operation Eastbound. 7/31 3:15 p.m. An accident on Interstate 20 has us delayed by about three hours, and that might have been fortuitous because it meant we entered Mississippi during the day and one of the first things I smelled was fresh cut grass. This was not...