CWD Found In Deer West Of Continental Divide

CWD Found In Deer West Of Continental Divide

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department confirmed chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer hunt area 152, approximately 12 miles west of Bondurant on Willow Creek. The mule deer buck that tested positive was hunter-harvested. This is the first time CWD has been found in...
SC All-Time Antler Records Available

SC All-Time Antler Records Available

The complete listing of South Carolina’s antler records (pdf) is now available to the public online. The South Carolina white-tailed deer Antler Records Program was initiated in the spring of 1974 and since that time, 7,469 sets of antlers (7,167 typical and 302...
ELLIOTT COUES: Surgeon, Naturalist, Hunter And His Deer

ELLIOTT COUES: Surgeon, Naturalist, Hunter And His Deer

Many of you may have heard Coues deer or the name Elliott Coues mispronounced as coos, cooz, cooeys or something else other than properly as “cows,” as in “wait ’til the cows come home.”  Here in Arizona, he is known as the namesake of the diminutive but highly prized...
Jim Casada Wins Excellence In Craft Award

Jim Casada Wins Excellence In Craft Award

Sporting Classics’ Editor-At-Large, Jim Casada, was recognized by the South Carolina Outdoor Press Association with an Excellence In Craft Award in the electronic publication category for his article, “Of Catfish and a Smelly Old Codger,” that appeared on Sporting...
Choosing The Right Men’s Rain Boots

Choosing The Right Men’s Rain Boots

SPONSORED CONTENT   Choosing the right men’s rain boots for certain conditions was thoroughly impressed upon me many years ago while filming a deer hunt on Quebec’s Anticosti Island.  This boreal beauty in the mouth of the St. Lawrence River is literally a land...
105-Pound MONSTER Snapping Turtle!

105-Pound MONSTER Snapping Turtle!

Herpetologist Nick Shiltz has his hands full with this 105-pound Suwannee alligator snapping turtle trapped in Warrior Creek near Sylvester. Shiltz and Dirk Stevenson caught and released the monster two-foot-long male as part of a DNR-coordinated survey documenting...