Behind the High Fence

Behind the High Fence

I hadn’t stepped inside a high fence since 1980. That’s when I had the chance to hunt Blue Mountain Forest, aka Corbin Park, in New Hampshire. The boars, whitetails and elk inside the enclosure had close to 27,000 acres of totally wild terrain. I actually went up...

Live from 2019 SHOT Show

Live from 2019 SHOT Show

Co-Founder of TRACT Optics, Jon Lacorte, (left) accepts the Optics Award of Excellence from Sporting Classics Senior Editor Ron Spomer. Senior Editor Doug Painter, (right) presents Steve Lovell of Garmin the Sporting Lifestyle Award of Excellence. CEO of Steyr Arms...

The Bob-Tailed Doe

The Bob-Tailed Doe

You have no idea how many times she’s messed me up, mere moments before I was about to shoot a buck. “She’s at it again, or should I say still!” scowled my brother Glenn. “Showed up at my creek blind this morning. She came quartering in, up wind. Soon as she stepped...

First Deer for Wyatt

First Deer for Wyatt

A bit before dawn, Wyatt Grimmelt and his dad, Tony, had been delivered to their stand along a logging road through a cut over forest by a swamp close to the Edisto River. They were hunting out of Deerfield Plantation, Hugh Walters’ hunting lodge in St. George, S.C....

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