Arnold Palmer of Duck Hunting Properties
SPONSORED CONTENT As commodity prices go, few have been tracking mallard dividends as closely as Steve Farris. After a stellar career as a Grammy-nominated guitarist and one of the cofounders of the '80s band "Mr. Mister," Farris has turned his creative energies and...
Ethics and the Meat Hunter
Contemplations on the ethical hunt. I saw the yellow Rank and the branched antlers as he stepped through a thin place in the second-growth timber, maybe 70 yards away. He was gone before I could even slip the rifle sling off my shoulder, let alone shoot. The wind was...
Game and Field Fair 2022
Sporting Classics Attends 2022 Game & Field Fair On the weekend of April 1, Sporting Classics traveled to the mountainous region of Adairsville, Georgia, for the Game & Field Fair sponsored by The Pepi Family Studios and High Adventure Company on the Beretta...
The Coyote – Nature’s Versatile Vagabond
Richie Nash had never seen a coyote on his family's farm south of Monroe, North Carolina . . . but all that changed on a cool December morning as Nash sat in his comfortable box stand overlooking a freshly cut cornfield. Half an hour after sunrise, Nash noticed a lone...
Top of the Food Chain – Candid Cameron
Hoomans are afraid of wolves, my ancestors, because they are at the top of the food chain. OK, I was lying all across the couch the other day when Mike pushed me and made me move. Never mind I can stretch out and cover the entire couch from end to end with my body and...
Palm Sunday Turkey
There are a couple of rather elementary ground rules that apply under such conditions and, strangely enough, a great many people find them difficult to follow. Anyone who has chased turkeys for any length of time, assuming he is a realist and does not suffer from a...
How To Support Joint Health in Your Sporting Dog
SPONSORED CONTENT: When we think about the longevity of our hardworking sporting dogs in the fields and blinds, joint health is often a point of concern. They run hard in a variety of conditions, they jump over logs or stone walls, and they twist and turn their way...
Silence Is Golden in Sioux Falls
Even if the Russians aren’t coming, apparently Americans aren’t willing to take a chance. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) recently released March background check figures for the purchase of firearms and the totals jumped by more than 300,000 from...
Lightning – Deadly Bolts from the Blue
Hunters and anglers are particularly vulnerable to these fiery sky wires. Around 6 a.m. on Sunday, November 5, 2017, Curtis Atkins and one of his hunting buddies sat in their truck near Zanesville, Ohio, debating whether to hunt. Skies had been variably cloudy during...
If Suddenly You Were Rich
If tomorrow you were suddenly, despicably rich, what would be the first thing you would buy? “You can’t buy happiness” must be the oldest prank in the aphorism boneyard, but we all know Gene Hill dispelled that myth when he remembered, "they forgot little puppies."...