by Robert Ruark | Sep 11, 2026
Things were different when he was a lad—back when nothing was artificial or contrived, and the days and seasons were filled with high adventure. It’s a popular pastime among adults, when the hair begins to gray and the aches of middle age grow stronger, to look back...
by Gordon MacQuarrie | Sep 11, 2026
He was a pine knot millionaire—hunting partridge on the tote roads and ducks on the lake, catching big crappies and trout in the rivers, gathering blueberries for food and pine knots for the fire, all work fit for a king. I left long before daylight, alone but not...
by Chris Dorsey | Sep 9, 2026
Washington is full of people willing to tell a sportsman what he wants to hear. Finding someone who will tell him what he needs to know takes more insight. That is one reason the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation stays near the top of my call list. I’ve served on...
by Nash Buckingham | Sep 9, 2026
The eloquent writings of Nash Buckingham (1880-1971) were relatively unknown until Derrydale Press published several of his books in the 1930s. But “Mr. Buck,” as he came to be known to his legions of devoted readers, had been writing magazine articles for years. This...
by Chris Dorsey | Sep 9, 2026
The incomparable electricity of driven grouse. Some sporting destinations allow success to be manufactured to some degree. Pheasants and red-legged partridges can be reared and released. Fish can be stocked. Habitat can be improved, predators controlled, and...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 8, 2026
Make sure to catch this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, featuring a bird hunter’s paradise as Chris Dorsey and Dominico Orzi visit Uruguay’s stunning Estancia Santa Elena. The series airs on Outdoor Channel on Monday at 12pm,...
by Jim Casada | Sep 8, 2026
In the words of his contemporary and close friend, Teddy Roosevelt, Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917) was “the greatest of the world’s big-game hunters.” Certainly, there were few sportsmen of the late Victorian and Edwardian period who would...
by Duncan Grant | Sep 7, 2026
Ancient walls of huge, dry-stacked, weather-worn boulders hint at a distant past and parallel us as we travel through crisp morning air along a sandy, sun-dappled road toward our shooting pegs. They look European. Beyond the stone walls, giant hardwoods rise over the...
by Stanley S. McGowen, PhD | Sep 4, 2026
I was raised around pointers and followed them afield with my Dad and his hunting partners through the rolling hills and plains of Texas. We had a plethora of bobwhite quail back then and I developed a great love for Mister Bob. As time passed, I married and pursued a...
by Wayne van Zwoll | Sep 3, 2026
In the echoes of our Civil War, the West drew a tide of emigrants from the rubble of battlefields once communities. Rootless, embittered men drifted across the prairies, in and out of crime. Hostile tribes imperiled settlers who’d endured the privations of wagon...
