by Chris Dorsey | Oct 19, 2026
Ella Langley has committed an unforgivable celebrity offense: being the person she sings about. Old photographs of the country star hunting deer, including with her father, have resurfaced, and the internet’s Department of Recreational Misery has opened an...
by Patrick Arbeiter | Oct 15, 2026
There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot . . . This is a story for those who cannot. In 1927 Crazy Ernie, Kid Al and my dad won a hunting shack in a poker game and lost their hearts to a swamp. In a remote northwoods clearing stood a...
by Peter Capstick | Oct 9, 2026
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...
by John Seerey-Lester | Oct 9, 2026
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....
by Jack O'Connor | Oct 8, 2026
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...
by W. Horace Carter | Oct 8, 2026
“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:...
by Edmund Ware Smith | Oct 6, 2026
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...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 6, 2026
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...
by Tom Word | Oct 2, 2026
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...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 30, 2026
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...
