Mamba Mayhem

Mamba Mayhem

Deep in the wilds of Africa, dealing with a deadly snake in your camp latrine can be a messy proposition.    One of the most terrifying encounters I have ever had with a dangerous snake took place on an early October morning in Zambia, on the Munyamadzi River. It had...
Theodore Roosevelt’s First Buffalo Hunt

Theodore Roosevelt’s First Buffalo Hunt

One September morning in the late 1880s, Theodore Roosevelt had a sudden desire to hunt buffalo on the western prairie. He had been honing his ranch-craft by staying at a cow camp a few miles up the Little Missouri River from his ranch in the Badlands of South Dakota....
Hunt for the Mystery Deer

Hunt for the Mystery Deer

The legendary hunter sets out to find the little ghost deer of the high Mexican desert. All of my life I had heard of a delicate little fairy deer even smaller than the regular Arizona whitetail. He’s a tiny little fellow and the smallest deer that scientists...
Old Three Toes

Old Three Toes

“Three Toes,” said an old rancher, with a kind of reverence, “is the fastest, longest-winded wolf that ever lived.” A smile swept across the craggy, weather-beaten face of Clyde F. Briggs as he read a telegram from the U. S, Biological Survey:...
Lo, the Long Brown Ridges

Lo, the Long Brown Ridges

To the deer hunter, sometimes black is white and up is down. It all depends on your point of view. Even now, I can feel the lucid silence of a cedar swamp – tomblike, tangled, ancient as the Book. And above the swamp the brown ridge rests in perpetual peace. This is...
Thank You, Oregon’s Animal-Rights Activists

Thank You, Oregon’s Animal-Rights Activists

Somebody ought to send Oregon’s animal-rights activists a thank-you note. In trying to outlaw hunting, fishing, and farming, they have made an excellent case for organizing the people they’d like to shut down. Their Initiative Petition 28 would have removed...
Two Sports

Two Sports

Men of remarkable talent and courage, Er Shelley and Paul Rainey brought a unique form of hunting to Africa. As the 20th century dawned, the gamelands near Memphis beckoned two very different young men. One was a pointing dog trainer from rural Michigan, uncannily...
Sporting Classics TV Season 8 Episode 7 Trailer

Sporting Classics TV Season 8 Episode 7 Trailer

Make sure to catch this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, featuring an adventure over land, air and sea as Luke and Nate Dorsey pursue elk, pheasant and trout at Colorado’s stunning Elk Creek Ranch.  The series airs on Outdoor Channel...
New York Was Far Away

New York Was Far Away

The valley was long and narrow, filled with the green of rich grass and the pale gold of frost-touched arctic willow. Along the edges of the valley was a thick border of spruce, but not far up the mountainsides, the woods played out in a scattering of scrubby trees....
A Man-Killing Bear

A Man-Killing Bear

Shocked and angered by his friend’s horrible death, the old trapper was determined to get revenge. Almost every trapper past middle age who has spent his life in the wilderness has stories to tell about exceptionally savage bears. One of these stories was told in my...
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