by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 27, 2020
This week on Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey… It’s a wingshooting adventure in North America’s waterfowl factory as brothers Chris and Joe Dorsey head to the prairie pothole region of central Alberta for epic duck and goose hunting with Ranchland...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 16, 2020
The North Zone Alabama dove season will open on Labor Day weekend this year, a week earlier than most people are accustomed to. Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Director Chuck Sykes wants to make sure dove hunters are not caught flat-footed this...
by Dawn Faught | Jul 10, 2020
Eight ladies, now all good friends, have a blast in the pheasant fields of South Dakota. If you can gauge how good of a day you had by the number of shells you shot, I had a blast. The sore stomach muscles from evenings of hearty laughter shared with new friends was...
by Dave Books | Jul 9, 2020
A symbol of the iconic West, the sage grouse fed pioneers and homesteaders and now provides challenging sport for hunters. It started with a wisp of a Brittany puppy that didn’t weigh much more than a sage grouse. My go-to bird dog, a wonderful, wacky male Brittany...
by Chris Dorsey | Jun 30, 2020
How the cradle of our continent’s bird life is being rocked When last September’s chilling news from Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology hit press wires reporting a decline of some three billion birds across North America since the 1970s, there was one...
by Robert Matthews | Jun 12, 2020
We hunt for the same reason that foxes chase mice…because we’re genetically programmed to do it. Evans Chambers and I were reminiscing the other day, as old men are wont to do. Evans lives in Enid, Oklahoma, and has been affiliated with the Grand National Quail Hunt...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jun 10, 2020
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are offering rewards totaling $3,000 for information in their investigation of a bald eagle that was illegally killed near Reed Point. The dead eagle had a small game arrow in it when it was...
by Jim Casada | Jun 9, 2020
I would contend that boyhood in yesteryear, when most pursuits involved being outdoors, had it all over today’s technology-driven world. Increasingly with the passage of time I find myself reflecting on things I did as a youngster. That’s the purview of age, and as...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jun 5, 2020
At their June meeting, the Game, Fish and Parks Commission received an update on a marketing plan that’s been developed through a collaboration between the Departments of Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) and Tourism. The 3-year plan is the result of a workgroup that was put...
by Chris Dorsey | May 28, 2020
“I live in cities now and travel the world but I keep coming back to this prairie because I know this is where I belong.” Even at his busiest sitting at the anchor’s desk of NBC News for more than 20 years—longer than Walter Cronkite at CBS—Tom Brokaw managed...