by Sporting Classics Daily | Aug 17, 2026
Easton, Maryland – Following their $10 million auction held in April, the St. Michaels, Maryland based auction company Guyette and Deeter, hosted their annual summer auction at the Country School on July 24th and 25th. The two-day decoy and sporting art auction...
by Todd Wilkinson | Aug 7, 2026
For 70 years, the art of Mort Künstler has delivered us into adventures and mortal dramas. You’ve just humped up a steep knoll trailing a wounded elk, or maybe you have designs on glassing mountain goats. Fatigued, out of breath, a stiff headwind numbing the frontal...
by Jim Casada | Jul 27, 2026
A few months back I received an e-mail from a book collector/dealer asking me a question that immediately raised a question of my own. The essence of his inquiry involved a photocopied collection of a series of syndicated columns written by W. Robert Foran under the...
by Dr. Peter Brookes | Jul 20, 2026
Nestled in the verdant, rolling hills of Virginia horse country not far from the nation’s capital is The National Sporting Museum & Library (NSLM), America’s must-see museum for outdoorsmen, especially those interested in upland hunting and sporting and...
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...
