The Antlers Were Extra
Records lists grew on entries from “meat hunters.” Effort and focus still lag Lady Luck!
How Sportsmen Defeated a Colorado Ballot to Ban Mountain Lion Hunting
A mountain lion peers through glass patio doors, staring intently at a young girl just a few feet away inside the house. Behind the big cat is the family’s dead house cat, freshly killed by the 120-pound mountain lion. Inside, the girl’s mother frantically yells...
Christmas Holiday Shenanigans: Part 1
When modern deer hunting seasons were first established in Georgia during the late 1950s and early ’60s, it was against the law to hunt on Sunday in many (if not all) Georgia counties. Sometimes these laws were enforced and sometimes they were not, depending on...
The Final Chapter: A Nevada Bull Elk Hunt
After 14 years of applying, the author draws a coveted Nevada bull elk tag. The hunt would prove to be an epic ending of an epic year of hunting.
Bing Crosby: A Man for All Seasons
On Christmas Day in 1941, millions tuned their radios to Kraft Music Hall, NBC’s hit variety program hosted by Bing Crosby, one of Hollywood’s brightest stars and the best-selling recording artist of the 20th century. Bing was in the middle of filming Holiday Inn with...
Easy Street Elk
While most elk hunting stories begin with vivid words about climbing steep and tall mountains, many long hours spent sitting glassing into timbers and then moving from location to location to glass into more brush—I missed all that effort and wasted time on one elk...
Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 24 Trailer
This week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey features an epic hunt for red stag and fallow deer in the stunning mountains of New Zealand. Chris Dorsey returns to the south island to pursue big game with his old friend John Scurr in an adventure...
New Zealand’s Stags
The Southern Alps are where a growing number of hunters head to be supersized.
Rowland Ward: Entrepreneur, Publisher, Big Game Guru and Taxidermist
Although the average big-game hunter may know little if anything about the life of an individual who was a man for all seasons in the world of Victorian and Edwardian sport, Rowland Ward, virtually everyone is aware of the long-running series of record books bearing...
Hal, a Dacotah: Hunting With the Sioux
The events in the following story are based on real experiences that were recorded by Henry Hastings Sibley, who used the name “Hal, a Dacotah” as a pseudonym for Spirit of the Times, a popular 19th century publication in New York.