BIRD HUNTING - Sporting Classics Daily

Sporting Classics TV Season 7 Episode 3 Trailer

by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 11, 2025 | BIRD HUNTING, HUNTING

This week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey features a tour of the pheasant belt as Chris Dorsey and Domenico Orzi take a road trip through South Dakota to hunt at three spectacular venues. The series airs on prime-time on Thursday at 10pm ET, with...

Discovering Uruguay’s Bird Hunting Wonderland

by Chris Dorsey | Jul 7, 2025 | BIRD HUNTING, HUNTING

An orange and white Brittany named Mia slinks cheetah-like through cover, crouching motionless on her belly as she peers like a weathervane into the wind, nosing the scent of a partridge-sized bird known locally as a perdiz (partridge in English). The small game bird...

The Stalemate

by Joe Shead | Jun 14, 2025 | BIRD HUNTING, HUNTING

Ryan Bybee is a tough guy to fish with. Well, for me, anyway. It’s not that we don’t have a good time when we’re fishing together, it’s just that we have different ways of fishing. I like to run and gun. Find the active fish, pick off the biters, move, move, move....

In The Court Of The Ruffed Grouse King

by Michael Luders | Jun 5, 2025 | BIRD HUNTING, HUNTING, Slider

In the pine barren, the pasture’s edge, the orchard, this is the ruffed grouse’s court . . . and we are honored to be there. In an orchard, long abandoned, we make our way toward a solitary tree, one of few bearing apples this fall. That it has fruit at all strikes me...

Nothing Like on Paper

by R. Bruce Moon | May 28, 2025 | BIRD HUNTING, HUNTING

I was beginning to wonder if the tom had been spooked by a this strange “hen” yelping from inside a vehicle, when I heard a shotgun blast.

Of Remingtons, Parkers and Old Pats

by Tom Keer | May 28, 2025 | BIRD HUNTING, FIREARMS, HUNTING, SHOTGUNS

Devout Remington men toting Parkers?

Dowsing, Ducks, Dynamite and Damnation

by Roger Pinckney | May 28, 2025 | BIRD HUNTING, HUNTING

I felt the shockwave through my feet before I heard the thunderclap explosion. Mud flew, water ran and two days later, I had a new pond. Brothers and Sisters, I am a water witch. Water witching, dousing, doodle-bugging— call it what you will, finding unseen things...

Wayward in Hayward

by Reid Bryant | May 27, 2025 | BIRD HUNTING, HUNTING, Sporting Classics Daily

The man who taught me grouse and woodcock lives with his wife in a Vermont hamlet just this side of Canada. He has some gray in his beard these days but only enough to make him look as wise as his years, and he smells like pipe smoke and cherry-wood shavings. He heats...