The North American “Amazon” You’ve Never Heard Of—And Why It’s In Peril
How the cradle of our continent’s bird life is being rocked When last September’s chilling news from Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology hit press wires reporting a decline of some three billion birds across North America since the 1970s, there was one...
Hunting Ocellated Turkey: Season 2 Premiere of “Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey”
The premiere episode chronicles a journey into the jungles of the Yucatan outside of Campeche, Mexico, to hunt the gorgeous ocellated turkey. The eastern wild turkey of North American is one of the great conservation success stories and hunters played a direct role in...
Wisconsin 2021 Bear Hunting Application Period Begins July 1
The application period for the 2021 bear hunting season will open July 1 after the successful completion of legislative review. The application deadline remains Dec. 10, 2020. Applicants are reminded to be aware of the new bear management zone boundaries as their...
Good Dogs Buried
How many good dogs you gonna bury before one buries you? Blue weighed 90 pounds, with webbed feet big as biscuits, long legs and a deep chest, the biggest Lab bitch I ever saw, out of Tomahawk, Wisconsin, from a kennel of field champions. An undertaker gave her away....
Monarchs with the Curling Horns
"Ram!" It kicks you in the heart when you hear it hissed by your guide, or better yet, when you whisper it to yourself on a solo hunt. They surely do have a hold me, those monarchs with the curling horns. Always have, at least since I can remember. Over the years,...
Texas Treasure: The Axis Deer
With their magnificent antlers and beautiful dappled coats, axis deer have become one of the Lone Star State’s most coveted trophy animals. A good hunt lingers in memory with more satisfaction than nearly all other sweet reminisces. I recall hunts with friends – the...
Season 2 of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey Returns to Outdoor Channel Monday June 29th
Hit series reached 13.5 million viewers in its inaugural season through cable, syndication, and international distribution Officials from Dorsey Pictures, a Red Arrow Studios company, the world’s largest producer of outdoor adventure television and the only production...
Vermont Moose Hunting Permit Applications Open
The deadline to apply for a Vermont moose hunting permit is July 8. Moose permit applications are available on the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department’s website for the hunt limited to Vermont’s Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) E in the northeastern corner of the...
Heidi, The Record-Breaking Retriever
No dog, to anybody's knowledge, has done what Heidi did and racked up all the upland birds and all the migratory birds. In the late 1990s, on a beach in Vancouver, British Columbia, George Calef's eye was caught by a smallish chocolate Lab. The dog was retrieving a...
The Mountains Are Calling
Calling to a gobbler is a way to try your hand, or mouth, at a bit of magic. I always have to convince myself that the first gobbler I hear in the spring was really a gobbler. It wasn’t a woodpecker hammering on a hickory, or a distant dog barking. It was a turkey....