by Archibald Rutledge | Sep 14, 2026
Pitted with rust and powder-scalds, the old musket would explode with a roar that sounded like the crack of doom. And now, in the dusky hands of the Hunterman, it was all that stood between life and a terrible death. The negroes in the golden-wide ricefield, as they...
by Archibald Rutledge | Sep 14, 2026
I have said that my hunting has often been solitary; but that was chiefly in the early days. During the last 25 years, I have rarely taken to the woods and fields in the shooting season without having one or more of my own sons with me. Few human relationships are...
by Gordon MacQuarrie | Sep 11, 2026
He was a pine knot millionaire—hunting partridge on the tote roads and ducks on the lake, catching big crappies and trout in the rivers, gathering blueberries for food and pine knots for the fire, all work fit for a king. I left long before daylight, alone but not...
by Nash Buckingham | Sep 9, 2026
The eloquent writings of Nash Buckingham (1880-1971) were relatively unknown until Derrydale Press published several of his books in the 1930s. But “Mr. Buck,” as he came to be known to his legions of devoted readers, had been writing magazine articles for years. This...
by Chris Dorsey | Sep 9, 2026
The incomparable electricity of driven grouse. Some sporting destinations allow success to be manufactured to some degree. Pheasants and red-legged partridges can be reared and released. Fish can be stocked. Habitat can be improved, predators controlled, and...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 8, 2026
Make sure to catch this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, featuring a bird hunter’s paradise as Chris Dorsey and Dominico Orzi visit Uruguay’s stunning Estancia Santa Elena. The series airs on Outdoor Channel on Monday at 12pm,...
by Duncan Grant | Sep 7, 2026
Ancient walls of huge, dry-stacked, weather-worn boulders hint at a distant past and parallel us as we travel through crisp morning air along a sandy, sun-dappled road toward our shooting pegs. They look European. Beyond the stone walls, giant hardwoods rise over the...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 31, 2026
Kevin Cramer is threatening to gum up the federal government because compensated wetland easements are still being treated like contracts. The ducks, hunters and arithmetic would like a word. North Dakota is one of those rare places where a political movement could be...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Aug 24, 2026
Make sure you don’t miss this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, for a gorgeous quail hunt in the South Carolina Lowcountry while supporting American heroes. The series airs on Outdoor Channel on Monday at 12pm, Wednesday at 6am,...
by T.S. Van Dyke | Aug 21, 2026
In few places has there ever been woodcock shooting that for certainty of finding the birds and ease in following them equaled the sport of the bottom lands of the upper Mississippi River 20 years ago. Scarcely any of the resident sportsmen then troubled this charming...
