Live from South Africa
Sporting Classics Dispatch by Jason Vincent: Eastern Cape, 57 Miles NNW of Port Elizabeth, South Africa May 17, 9:15pm Local Time We were short a man this morning after John Hill had a bad reaction to South Africa’s fermented grapes of the red variety last night....
SCI President Babaz Responds To Anti-Hunting, Anti-Science Bill
Safari Club International President Paul Babaz today issued a statement that points out the lunacy of a bill that has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives that, if passed into law, would harm the very wildlife it purports to want to help – all in the...
Poaching Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
A skull and pants were the last vestiges of his existence. On Thursday, April 4th, park rangers were combing South Africa’s Kruger National Park for a fresh set of human remains. It was the second day of the search. Late that afternoon, they found the surprisingly...
Running & Gunning With Henry Rifles In Africa
How do you make a safari even more exciting than it already is? It’s easy. You hunt with Henry lever actions and iron sights that force you to stalk into an animal’s “personal space”. Join us in May as we run and gun on the dark continent in real time as we put the...
Tahr-iffic Spring Break New Zealand Hunt!
First appeared in Ron Spomer Outdoors. A New Zealand hunt for Himalayan tahr, red stags, and chamois is the perfect spring break because March is early autumn in the southern hemisphere. Mountain tahr are easily accessible in snow-free zones. Red stags are roaring,...
Live From SCI-Reno: SC Awards of Excellence
Sporting Classics Publisher Duncan Grant (right) and Senior Editor Doug Painter present the magazine's 2019 Shooting Sports Award of Excellence to Pam Young, owner of Alamo Sporting Arms. Sporting Classics Publisher Duncan Grant (right) and Senior Editor Doug Painter...
Hunting the Bezoar Ibex
Bezoar ibex average 140 pounds and possess extremely long, characteristically knobby horns in relation to body size, making it one of the most attractive members of the ibex family. With my rifle resting on a suitcase-sized boulder, I could not get situated for a shot...
Pick A Side: Eco-Imperialism Or Wildlife Conservation
Hunters conserve and save wildlife when no one else will or can.
Essential Africa Safari Gear
Having now made some 15 safaris to five different African countries, I feel confident in defining the essential safari gear a hunter really needs for a plains game safari. Rifles, optics, cartridges, bullets, packs, slings, boots, clothes, shooting sticks. It’s less...
Savage Accufit Rifles Working Africa
This article originally appeared on RonSpomerOutdoors.com M110 bolt-action Savage rifles with AccuFit stocks are tough, MOA accurate, and inexpensive Savage AccuFit rifles adjust to fit 5′ 2″ Betsy and her 5′ 10″ husband AccuFit rifles are rough-and-tumble durable We...