Palm Swells, “Tacticool” and Field Gun Performance
Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more “palm swells” on guns intended for field use. Whatever their merits or demerits on a target gun, they are mostly a hindrance to quick, reactive use on game, which seldom waits for you to call “pull” and seldom takes a certain,...
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...
Pointing Lab: The Do-It-All Dog?
As a card-carrying traditionalist, I’ve always been more than a little skeptical about the pointing Lab. Why fix something that ain’t broke, you know? Then I met hunting and fishing guide John Klus of Lake Waubesa, Wisconsin. Klus is the owner of Oscar, a...
Slow is Smooth. Smooth is Fast.
A while back, I was quail hunting with a young friend who was struggling mightily with the little brown bullets. We were finding plenty of bobwhites in the piney woods of South Georgia, but my pal just couldn’t seem to get the hang of it. It wasn’t that he was a bad...
“Dogs” From the Sporting Classics E-Book, “Passages”
These great quotes about dogs are excerpted from the Sporting Classics e-book, Passages. You can download the book FREE and enjoy content like this every day by signing up for the Sporting Classics Daily e-newsletter. “At this spot are deposited the remains of those...
The Working Man’s Dangerous Game Gun
John Hill was frozen in his tracks. He got busted trying to sneak across a narrow opening to the spot where I was carefully setting up my shot on a very old and very large Cape buffalo bull. The two were now in a staring contest and John stood statue-still with his...
Alabama Sets First Sandhill Crane Season in Century
“They fall out of the sky like a lawn chair,” my co-worker told me after he returned from his first sandhill crane hunt. “What do you do with a crane?” I asked. “They’re called the ‘ribeye of the sky,’” he replied, and that was all I needed to know. I was up for...
Dan’s 12 Quail Hunting Tips
These practical quail hunting tips are excerpted from the article “Dan,” by Bud Temple that originally appeared in the June 2019 issue of Sporting Classics magazine. I had frequently stopped at the little crossroads restaurant 16 miles north of my home in Wabash,...
The Origins of Purina
After graduating from Washington University, William H. Danforth grew tired with his job as a brick salesman. It was 1894, a time nearing the turn of the 20th century, and excitement was in the air. Businessmen scrapped tradition and quickly gravitated to new and...
The Latest SportDOG Brand Rechargeable In-Ground Fence
SportDOG Brand, an industry-leading manufacturer of electronic dog-training products and accessories, has Introduced its newest solution for dog owners who want to give their dogs freedom to run ...just only so far: The Rechargeable In-Ground Fence System (Model...