by Duncan Dobie | Feb 28, 2019
A fascinating new book featuring 400 vintage photos of whitetail hunters from yesteryear. Whitetail hunting is truly a unique American tradition plied first by early settlers, immigrants, pioneers and later American patriots who often died for their nation when...
by Larry Weishuhn | Feb 27, 2019
A brisk northerly, cooling breeze carried blood-red and sun-yellow leaves to an already leaf-littered forest floor. The aroma of fresh earth turned by a black bear melted with sweet scent of pines, but also with the faint odor of a musky rutting whitetail wafting...
by Jim Mize | Feb 22, 2019
One day while in high school, my daughter suggested she was considering a major in wildlife biology in college. Since college majors are something one should try on for size before buying, I suggested we spend a day in the field with Walt. She agreed. Walt Rhodes and...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Feb 13, 2019
MISSOULA, Mont. (February 13, 2019) – The Boone and Crockett Club, the oldest wildlife conservation group in the U.S., today praised the Senate’s passage of the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47), a bipartisan package of bills that includes several...
by Luke Clayton | Feb 7, 2019
When I was a youngster growing up in northeast Texas, we fished strictly with cane poles that we cut from a stand of switch cane that grew near the back of our little farm. We usually kept a 12-foot Calcutta pole or two for when we needed to really reach out from the...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Feb 6, 2019
WYOMING – Hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers in Wyoming contributed more than $1 billion to Wyoming’s economy during 2017, according to a new analysis by the University of Wyoming. It’s a 2.3 percent increase from 2016, attributed to more people heading outdoors....
by Larry Chesney | Jan 31, 2019
I hadn’t stepped inside a high fence since 1980. That’s when I had the chance to hunt Blue Mountain Forest, aka Corbin Park, in New Hampshire. The boars, whitetails and elk inside the enclosure had close to 27,000 acres of totally wild terrain. I actually went up...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 28, 2019
Moose depend on healthy lakes and wetlands for survival, like the vast and unspoiled Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Superior National Forest in Minnesota. Just over two years ago, wildlife supporters helped block the opening of a massive sulfide ore mine in...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 25, 2019
JACKSON HOLE, WYO – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department in partnership with the Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation, the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center, and the University of Wyoming’s Ruckleshaus Institute is announcing a public engagement process to explore...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 24, 2019
Co-Founder of TRACT Optics, Jon Lacorte, (left) accepts the Optics Award of Excellence from Sporting Classics Senior Editor Ron Spomer. Senior Editor Doug Painter, (right) presents Steve Lovell of Garmin the Sporting Lifestyle Award of Excellence. CEO of Steyr Arms...