by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 9, 2026
July, 9-10 2026 | 632 Lots Click Here to View Lots Copley Fine Art Auctions’ annual Sporting Sale is a premier auction of sporting art, featuring exceptional paintings, important antique decoys, decorative and contemporary carvings, fishing tackle collectibles,...
by Jim Casada | Jul 7, 2026
Some of the finest sporting literature ever published delves deeply into outdoor interactions between seasoned veterans of the field and apprentice hunters, fishermen or natural historians. Unquestionably the finest example of this literary genre is Robert Ruark’s...
by Jim Casada | May 22, 2026
Over the years I’ve read what I personally consider one of the great books of angling literature, Negley Farson’s Going Fishing, three or four times. It’s a book, similar to Robert Ruark’s The Old Man and the Boy or Nash Buckingham’s De Shootinest Gent’man, that...
by Todd Wilkinson | May 22, 2026
On a summer afternoon long ago in Bozeman, Montana, a grouping of paintings stopped me in my tracks. These were not major works by painter Ralph Oberg, but depictions of high elevation lakes in Glacier National Park of Montana. Their water, set in bowls carved out by...
by Jim Casada | Apr 20, 2026
More years ago than it is completely comfortable for me to ponder, I wrote a series of profiles on celebrated angling writers for a little publication, Fly-Fishing News. The bimonthly offering, featuring noted sporting scribes such as John Gierach, Lefty Kreh and Paul...
by Jim Casada | Apr 18, 2026
Soon after the National Wild Turkey Federation was founded in 1973, the organization began publishing its house magazine, Turkey Call. The publication’s first editor, Gene Smith, was a veteran in the field who had cut his editing teeth working for Florida’s state...
by Andrew Sharp | Apr 7, 2026
The last shall be first, we’re told, and for many years, when Outdoor Life arrived in the mail, readers would skip straight past the latest on guns and gear to get to the back page. “I heard that almost daily,” says Todd W. Smith, who served as editor of the magazine...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 29, 2026
Henry Bishop was a good friend of legendary decoy collector Dr. Peter J. Muller Jr., and there is substantial overlap between their collections. Both from Atlanta, the Muller and Bishop Collections are known for their near-mint birds by top makers, including Elmer...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 12, 2026
Copley Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary With An All-Star Lineup at the Winter Sale 2026 As Copley Fine Art Auctions celebrates its 20th year in business in 2026, the firm will host its annual Winter Sale on February 20 and 21. Consisting of approximately 640 lots, this...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 12, 2026
Click Here to View All Geoffrey Boothroyd, Boothroyd on British Shotguns. Amity, OR: Sand Lake Press, 1993. [viii], 222,[32—reprint of 1914 Webley & Scott catalog], [xv—index] pages. Hardbound in dust jacket. Illustrated, index. Copy #2 of a printing of 1500...
