Special 44th Anniversary Two-Year Subs, Only $44

Special 44th Anniversary Two-Year Subs, Only $44

It’s our 44th anniversary and you get the gift! From now until the end of July, you can get a 2-year subscription (16 issues) at 20% off our regular price of $54.95. Right now, enjoy a 2-year subscription for only $44! Already a subscriber? We’ll automatically extend...
Passing The Buck

Passing The Buck

First published in the November, 1974 issue of Florida Sportsman, this piece is included in Dickey’s Backtrack (1977). As he so often does, the author takes a mundane matter and has you smiling in short order. The biggest problem in going hunting is that you might...
Discovering Uruguay’s Bird Hunting Wonderland

Discovering Uruguay’s Bird Hunting Wonderland

An orange and white Brittany named Mia slinks cheetah-like through cover, crouching motionless on her belly as she peers like a weathervane into the wind, nosing the scent of a partridge-sized bird known locally as a perdiz (partridge in English). The small game bird...
Binding An Elephant

Binding An Elephant

The flight from Atlanta to Johannesburg provides those unwilling to embrace the charms of Ambien with ample opportunity to think. In point of fact, beyond ample. It offers a rare and uninterrupted block of time that is best used for pondering complex issues in great...
When the Hounds Bark Treed

When the Hounds Bark Treed

“They’re treed! Let’s go, let’s go, lets go!” shouted my dad while taking off at a fast trot. I did my best to follow. My six-year-old legs were not long enough to equal my Dad’s stride, but I followed as best I could at a near all-out run. Soon, Dad was a hundred...
Florida’s Proposed Bear Hunt Pits Science Versus Emotion

Florida’s Proposed Bear Hunt Pits Science Versus Emotion

After years of bear population increases and growing numbers of human-bear conflicts, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted 4-1 last May to open a limited bear hunt for the first time since 2015. Not surprisingly, the proposed season has...
Sporting Classics TV is Back!

Sporting Classics TV is Back!

Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey returns to Outdoor Channel next week! The first episode of 2025 is a pursuit of Scotland’s ultimate sporting quest – the MacNab – where one must take a stag, a brace of grouse, and a salmon in one day. The series...
Call to Glory

Call to Glory

They mended our imagination. The most astounding canine players ever to grace the century-and-a-quarter theater of American pointing dog trials. Can we help but suppose which was best? Sioux, La Besita, Palamonium. Luminary, Red Water Rex, Native Tango. Toe the...
Sasquatch in Arctic Alaska

Sasquatch in Arctic Alaska

Long before I came to Alaska, I had been fascinated with the folklore and reports associated with the Abominable Snowman, Yeti, Sasquatch and Bigfoot. As a senior in high school I wrote a term paper on the legendary wild men that had been reported from so many places...