by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 21, 2018
Bull hunters fare better, but overall elk hunt a success. Nearly 100 lucky participants in Pennsylvania’s 2018 elk hunt have taken home a trophy. Ninety-nine elk were taken by 125 hunters during the regular one-week elk season that ended Nov. 10. And for those...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 13, 2018
This comes from the final portion of Chapter 6 in Forty-Four Years in the Life of a Hunter (1859) and captures the author’s activities when at the height of his considerable hunting powers. Shortly after returning to my home, three hunters and myself agreed to go to...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 13, 2018
Today SCI launched a new website as part of its campaign to tell the hunter’s story to the world. In an era when social media storms spring up, instantly criticizing hunting, SCI is putting a new face forward to let the whole world know that hunters are good...
by Jim Mize | Nov 11, 2018
I had just settled down to pen a story about a man-eating lion stalking a hunter through darkest Africa. The hunter was in turn tracking a wounded water buffalo and the dense vegetation was going to bring all three into close contact at the watering hole. Clearly,...
by Chuck Wechsler | Oct 31, 2018
Up to my hunt last week at Timberghost Ranch in southeastern Iowa, I considered myself a pretty good judge of whitetail antlers. Not anymore. Sitting in a comfortable stand with my stepson, Scott Morrison, and his guide Brian Field, I noticed a buck off to my left...
by Larry Weishuhn | Oct 30, 2018
“You best come here and look at this!” demanded my cameraman. He stood pointing at the ground immediately in front of our tent. “Something big tore up the ground and chewed on saplings. Whatever it was doesn’t seem to appreciate our presence here! Could be a bear, or...
by Ron Spomer | Oct 26, 2018
Here we go again. A reader —a refreshingly polite one this time — told RonSpomerOutdoors.com Do Not Hunt Bears. That’s great because I invited everyone’s comments. She was referencing a blog I’d posted titled “Should We Hunt Big Predators?” Here is her heartfelt...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 25, 2018
MISSOULA, Mont. (October 24, 2018) – The Boone and Crockett Club, the name synonymous with big game hunting and conservation, today applauded Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s announcement that the lands western big game species depend upon as migration...
by Corey Ford | Oct 16, 2018
Originally published as one of his “The Lower Forty” columns in Field & Stream, this story is Chapter 29 of The Best of Corey Ford (1975). It is vintage Ford in not only the cast of characters but with wry humor and a disparaging poke at all the folderol...
