Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 15 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...
Old Tree Stands
If only old tree stands could talk, imagine the stories they could tell. Stories about opening days, big bucks, little bucks, deer killed, deer missed. Maybe even stories about what thoughts pass through a hunter’s mind as time goes by sitting in a deer stand. The...
Charles Sheldon: Visionary Sportsman
Born in Rutland, Vermont, on October 18, 1867, for the first three-plus decades of his life Charles Alexander Sheldon led a fairly normal upper-class existence. He came from a well-to-do family involved in marble quarrying and spent his formative years with New...
An Artist In Big Game Country: Almost Skunked!
Often, it is my custom to make careful pencil sketches of the characteristic rocks and growth of a locality, and from time to time an adventure is the result of the quiet and waiting. On a remote lake in Maine, two deer were feeding at the water’s edge, and just...
Ezra Bogg’s Moose Hunt
“Yep” sighed old Ez, as he bunched a forkful of chewing and elevated it into the gap in his features, “I’ve seen ’em. An’ I can say that jedgin’ by what I see of ’em they’re tough customers. I hain’t a-hankerin’ to renew my acquaintance with ’em—they’re a trifle too...
Never Give Up: The Half Day Hunt
It’s midnight when we pull into elk camp, dark and cold with a clear sky. There’s no moon. The only light comes from the huge canopy of stars hanging low over the mountains, reflecting off the frost-covered ground. The stars are so low I feel like reaching...
Idaho Odyssey
One of the great wonders of young boys is never realizing how a chain of everyday events can so forcefully change and redirect your own life in years ahead, even into adulthood. For me, raised up in a 1940s small town in the foothills of northern California’s lovely...
Scotland’s Ultimate Sporting Quest
The 1925 adventure novel John Macnab is the story of three high profile Scottish friends who are suffering from severe cases of the doldrums and are instructed by their physician to try something out of the ordinary, perhaps with an element of danger to snap them out...
A Man-Killing Bear
Angry and horrified at his friend’s fate, the man spent days looking for the cunning and savage monster.