
EP 154: Campfire Talk with Luke and Larry
Click Here to Listen Was a time when having turkey for Thanksgiving dinner meant heading to the woods and harvesting your own bird. Luke and Larry recall some their early Thanksgivings adventures and how using rifle and bow turned lean Fall “woods” turkeys into a...

Venison Osso Buco Recipe
This venison osso buco recipe is a new, tasty way to prepare tender venison hams without having to grind or cube the meat. While my preferences when it comes to venison tend to run to cube steak, backstrap (too bad the whole deer isn’t backstrap) and ground meat,...

The First Time it Comes for You
Oh, man, it was big. Actually, he was big, a mature, bull Cape buffalo. If you knocked off the tickbirds and caught him as he stepped out of the shower, he was a light heavyweight of 1,800 pounds. That number hadn’t really meant anything to me until I’d beheld him...

Death Wore A Lion Skin
The lion came in low and very fast, seemingly out of nowhere. Pete Barrett saw Henry Poolman knocked aside, and the next thing he remembered he was looking down at the top of the great cat’s head, and it had his left forearm between its jaws and was crunching down on...

Lowcountry Magic: Return to Brays Island
This week, Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey returns to Brays Island to celebrate the sporting life in the Lowcountry. Host Chris Dorsey and Brays Island neighbor General Walter Boomer invite Dan Flavin, Walther Arms' Jens Krogh and Sporting Classics' Wayne Nanney...

Mollygrubs Messer: Of Pointers and Polecats
The Misadventures Of Mollygrubs Messer Episode 9: Of Pointers And Polecats Mischance, malarkey, and being the target of adolescent misfortune ran through the teenage years of Mollygrubs Messer like colorful thread binding the top of tow sacks. On one occasion,...

Grouse of the Little Hills
I have always felt that the ruffed grouse is the wariest, the swiftest and the most beautiful gamebird in the world. The bronzed magnificence of old gobblers allures me; so does the gleam of sunlight on the tall and craggy antlers of the whitetail. Yet a hunting...

First Deer
The following chapter is from We'll Do It Tomorrow by John P. Faris, Jr. In this collection of stories, John takes us along the creeks and rivers of his native Laurens Country, South Carolina to shoot mallards and wood ducks. He also tells of unusual yet successful...

High Peril on Polychrome Mountain
For two bone-chilling days, he pursued the rams unrelentingly, from dawn to dark, scaling precipitous cliffs, inching across narrow ledges and sliding down icy slopes. March 9. While climbing the mountains the past few days, I had been uncomfortable because of warmer...

Never Give Up
Feather serves as an object lesson in the art of not only living with a disability, but achieving goals that the rest of the world tries to tell you are unattainable.