by Charles Ruth, SCDNR Big Game Program Coordinator | Sep 29, 2020
Disposal of deer remains may not be the highlight of a hunting trip, but it is an important aspect of hunting, particularly in maintaining the hunter’s image. Properly disposed deer remains will soon be taken care of by decomposition and insects because nature...
by Luke Clayton | Sep 29, 2020
Luke Clayton and Larry Weishuhn reflect upon just how much deer stands have changed since the sixties when they both began hunting deer. I was recently recording “Campfire Talk,” the weekly radio segment that Larry Weishuhn (aka “Mr. Whitetail”) and I have produced...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 25, 2020
The number of invasive tegu lizards, a species popular in the pet trade, continues to increase across South Carolina, especially in the Midlands. South Carolina documented its first black and white tegu lizard, a species popular in the pet trade, in Lexington after a...
by Ron Spomer | Sep 25, 2020
It is up to the next generation of dedicated conservation hunters to protect, enhance and defend America’s millions of acres of public land. Richard stood five feet, two inches and wrestled. He wrestled on the mat in college, wrestled steer carcasses from the...
by Christiana Roussel | Sep 24, 2020
In her book Why Women Hunt, K.J. Houtman features stories of some of the women who are contributing to the growing percentage of women in America who hunt. If you’ve ever had the notion to take a woman hunting, you’re onto something pretty special. As K.J. Houtman...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 23, 2020
An 11-year-old girl in Wisconsin recently killed her first black bear, and it may just beat the record for the largest black bear harvested in the state. On opening day of her first bear hunt and accompanied by her grandfather, the sixth-grader spotted her first black...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 22, 2020
When it comes to our digital edition of Sporting Classics magazine, the phrase “less is more” applies in more ways than one. To some, “digital” reading seems less tangible, less interactive or even less sophisticated than thumbing through crisp...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 21, 2020
Youth are invited to enter the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s Kayak Kid Essay Competition for the chance to win an outdoors prize package. The contest requires a handwritten 250-word essay expressing why growing up in the outdoors is important. Entries must...
by Vicky Mullaney | Sep 21, 2020
From The Lodge at Black Pearl Cookbook, Vicky Mullaney shares her breakfast recipe that will awaken the cowboy in all of us. On one of our early fly fishing trips out West we stayed at the Diamond J Ranch in Ennis, Montana. They served us a very hearty breakfast every...
by Roger Pinckney | Sep 21, 2020
A scent can conjure up emotions and even specific memories. In the brain, smell is the closest to memory; in the heart, the closest to love. She meditated. She would not eat the venison I brought her. She worshiped some Hindu holy man whose name I wish I could forget....
