Tahr-iffic Spring Break New Zealand Hunt!

Tahr-iffic Spring Break New Zealand Hunt!

First appeared in Ron Spomer Outdoors. A New Zealand hunt for Himalayan tahr, red stags, and chamois is the perfect spring break because March is early autumn in the southern hemisphere. Mountain tahr are easily accessible in snow-free zones. Red stags are roaring,...
Live From SCI-Reno: SC Awards of Excellence

Live From SCI-Reno: SC Awards of Excellence

Sporting Classics Publisher Duncan Grant (right) and Senior Editor Doug Painter present the magazine’s 2019 Shooting Sports Award of Excellence to Pam Young, owner of Alamo Sporting Arms. Sporting Classics Publisher Duncan Grant (right) and Senior Editor Doug...
Hunting the Bezoar Ibex

Hunting the Bezoar Ibex

Bezoar ibex average 140 pounds and possess extremely long, characteristically knobby horns in relation to body size, making it one of the most attractive members of the ibex family. With my rifle resting on a suitcase-sized boulder, I could not get situated for a shot...
Essential Africa Safari Gear

Essential Africa Safari Gear

Having now made some 15 safaris to five different African countries, I feel confident in defining the essential safari gear a hunter really needs for a plains game safari. Rifles, optics, cartridges, bullets, packs, slings, boots, clothes, shooting sticks. It’s less...
Savage Accufit Rifles Working Africa

Savage Accufit Rifles Working Africa

This article originally appeared on RonSpomerOutdoors.com M110 bolt-action Savage rifles with AccuFit stocks are tough, MOA accurate, and inexpensive Savage AccuFit rifles adjust to fit 5′ 2″ Betsy and her 5′ 10″ husband AccuFit rifles are rough-and-tumble durable We...
Roaning Western Africa

Roaning Western Africa

I had taken a good mature roan, considered by many serious African hunters to be a more interesting animal than the regal sable! Tim Fallon shoved a water bottle in my face and insisted I drink.  “How hot do you think it is?” he asked. Before I could respond he...
The Game of Kings

The Game of Kings

If you probe the dark thickets and brushy hillsides of Zululand, you’ll eventually encounter the ‘great shaggy form’ of a bull nyala. And like legendary hunters and early Zulu kings, you will come to revere this elusive animal as the most beautiful of all African antelope.