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Another Timberghost Trophy Buck

by Chuck Wechsler | Oct 31, 2018 | BIG GAME, HUNTING, Sporting Classics Daily

Up to my hunt last week at Timberghost Ranch in southeastern Iowa, I considered myself a pretty good judge of whitetail antlers. Not anymore. Sitting in a comfortable stand with my stepson, Scott Morrison, and his guide Brian Field, I noticed a buck off to my left...

The Black Bear Cometh

by Larry Weishuhn | Oct 30, 2018 | BIG GAME, HUNTING

“You best come here and look at this!” demanded my cameraman. He stood pointing at the ground immediately in front of our tent. “Something big tore up the ground and chewed on saplings. Whatever it was doesn’t seem to appreciate our presence here! Could be a bear, or...

Do Not Hunt Bears

by Ron Spomer | Oct 26, 2018 | BIG GAME, HUNTING

Here we go again. A reader —a refreshingly polite one this time — told RonSpomerOutdoors.com Do Not Hunt Bears. That’s great because I invited everyone’s comments. She was referencing a blog I’d posted titled “Should We Hunt Big Predators?” Here is her heartfelt...

Boone and Crockett Club: A Win for Big Game

by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 25, 2018 | BIG GAME, HUNTING

MISSOULA, Mont. (October 24, 2018) - The Boone and Crockett Club, the name synonymous with big game hunting and conservation, today applauded Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's announcement that the lands western big game species depend upon as migration corridors will...

Uncle Perk’s Deer Lure

by Corey Ford | Oct 16, 2018 | BIG GAME, HUNTING

Originally published as one of his “The Lower Forty” columns in Field & Stream, this story is Chapter 29 of The Best of Corey Ford (1975). It is vintage Ford in not only the cast of characters but with wry humor and a disparaging poke at all the folderol...

Pope & Young Announces New World Record Bear

by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 16, 2018 | BIG GAME, HUNTING

Chatfield, MN – In late September of this year, the Pope and Young Club brought together a Special Panel of Judges in Windsor, Colorado for a potential P&Y World Record Alaskan brown bear. Chris Cammack's enormous bear was shot on the Alaskan Peninsula in May of...

Excerpt from “Incoming” by Robert Parvin Williams

by Robert Parvin Williams | Oct 4, 2018 | BIG GAME, HUNTING

In the last light of the safari’s final day, Ian Batchelor and I followed blood and hoof prints into a thicket. The buffalo could not be much further: both shots had hit well, and we had already trailed him nearly half a mile. William, the tracker, crouched low just...

RMEF, SAF Oppose Yellowstone Grizzly Ruling

by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 2, 2018 | BIG GAME, HUNTING

MISSOULA, Mont.—The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation disagree with a judge’s decision to vacate the delisting of the Greater Yellowstone grizzly population by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The ruling places the population back on...