by Archibald Rutledge | Jul 14, 2025
Toward the close of a glorious day in late September, I had gone down to the river from home to roam the wilderness of a neighboring plantation. The noble house that once stood on the bluff overlooking the lower reaches of the Santee was burned more than a century...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 11, 2025
This week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey features a tour of the pheasant belt as Chris Dorsey and Domenico Orzi take a road trip through South Dakota to hunt at three spectacular venues. The series airs on prime-time on Thursday at 10pm ET,...
by Tom Keer | Jul 9, 2025
The wind shifted overnight, and those northerlies sure cut yesterday’s highs in half. Replacing the hazy hot and humid was dog running weather; mid 40-degree highs, moderate humidity and a consistent, light-variable breeze. Carried on the wind was more than scent, and...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 9, 2025
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...
by Charley Dickey | Jul 8, 2025
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...
by Chris Dorsey | Jul 7, 2025
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...
by Dwight Van Brunt | Jul 7, 2025
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...
by Larry Weishuhn | Jul 3, 2025
“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...
by Chris Dorsey | Jul 3, 2025
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...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jun 26, 2025
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...
