TR In The Land Of Giants
By September 1909,Theodore Roosevelt’s year-long safari had moved on to the Meru region on the northeastern slopes of Mount Kenya where, with the help of Edward Butler Horne, the first district commissioner, they would hunt for more elephant. TR had already shot his...
Elk Camp
The challenge is great, the reward even greater for the bowhunter who outwits a big bull. It begins around the end of August in the Rockies when the dawns turn chilly, the aspen leaves turn golden, the small ponds freeze over at night, and the bull elk get a little...
A Buck Named Mordecai
“I had plenty of time to come up with a good story for the men at camp as I lay bleeding in the woods.”
Choice of the Litter
It was to him a very simple thing and the wonder was that the others, the older ones, were so stupid and confused. It was only a matter of going back a few years to when he was ten and her age, and thinking as he had thought then. The old urges and desires and faiths...
Fallow
“What two species of deer do you think have been introduced to more continents than any other?” Asked Scandinavian Prohunter’s Stefan Bengtsson. “Hmmmm…it would have to be either red deer or fallow deer based on my personal experience. I’ve hunted introduced red stag...
Where the Clouds Are Birds
I think I know what Otis Redding had on his mind when he crooned “Sittin’ on the dock of a bay.” Only there’s no dock here. There’s no bay either, but I’m sitting on a high bluff overlooking the Parana River in Argentina, takin’ the rest of the day off. Mi amigos...
Sporting Classics TV Season 7 Episode 8 Trailer
From time-honored driven shooting to cutting-edge night vision technology, its a global pursuit of tusks and tradition as we journey across the country and around the world for high-energy hog hunting in this week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey. The...
After Moose in New Brunswick
TR’s favorite hunting companion takes a trip of his own, chronicling his adventures just like his legendary father.
Setters and Pointers in Advertising
“It was the time when hunting and fishing were as popular as video games and reality television shows are today. Let’s have a look at a few from the past 100 years.”
Taking the Sacred Beast
He caught a glimpse of something white among the herd, its body illuminated by the setting sun–he recognized the animal as an extremely rare white bison. The fall was changing into winter and the buffalo hunters were getting ready for the huge herds to gather on the...