Joining The Ancient Club Of Ibex Hunters In Spain
A Beceite ibex stood atop an Iberian cliff across the canyon from us, its improbably long horns bowed against its rocky homeland. This was nothing new. That ram’s ancestors had posed on the same ledge while Hannibal’s elephants were lumbering through this region 2,200...
Ruark On Safari: Gin
An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. During the next few weeks we’ve changed locations many times with a series of fIy camps, sometimes setting up without anything except mosquito nets. The whole...
Ruark On Safari: Elephant Near Miss
An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. Meanwhile, our horse and camel safari continued, and there were plenty of unusual and even frightening incidents along the way. One day we were charged by a very...
Beware The Beast Of Nchila
The mosaic of rolling woodlands mixed with open plains, marshes and switchback rivers make ideal habitat for Cape buffalo in the northwest corner of Zambia—including the “Beast of Nchila,” a rogue bull that had killed four of its own. Stalking a massive bull in a...
Ruark On Safari: Hemingway
An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. I had a feeling that Hemingway's death affected Bob more than he would have admitted at the time, and, during the remainder of the safari he was puzzling out a...
A Close Call in Muktesar
The long search for the man-eating tigress was coming to an end and the hunter was poised to bring a permanent halt to the killer’s reign of terror.
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...
Sporting Classics Magazine Announces Sponsorship of Sporting Classics TV
Sporting Classics Magazine announced their partnership with the upcoming television series Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey produced by Dorsey Pictures. The series will premier July 1, 2019 on Outdoor Channel and brings one of America’s greatest adventure...
Sporting Classics TV with Chris Dorsey
Here's a sneak peak at the exciting new outdoors series, Sporting Classics TV with Chris Dorsey. The epic series launches July 1st on The Outdoor Channel. Times are 12:30 pm ET on Saturdays, and 6:30 am Saturdays, 3 pm Mondays, and 11:30 am Thursdays.
A Cast Of Characters Hunt Africa
Field Dispatch from Jason Vincent Africa- Undisclosed location June 24, 2019 8:45pm Local Time Yesterday was a great day. After being wind beaten and coming back to camp empty handed on Saturday, we decided to shift gears and head through a very deep canyon to survey...