by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 14, 2019
Preliminary data from trapping efforts last year indicate the northern Oklahoma quail are in good shape. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is working to assess the health of northern bobwhites in the state. In August 2018, 33 quail from five wildlife...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 14, 2019
The hunting season for ruffed grouse – New Hampshire’s most sought-after upland game bird – starts October 1 and runs through December 31. Woodcock season also opens October 1 and concludes November 14. Karen Bordeau, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Small...
by Larry Chesney | Sep 13, 2019
Finally, September arrived after a long and Sahara-like summer in the South. But the 90s were still here last weekend, so it was nice to find a little shade for my dove stool at our opening day dove hunt. A few friends gathered on a large recently-cut corn field for a...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 11, 2019
Pheasant, Sharptail and Partridge Numbers Up North Dakota’s roadside surveys conducted in late July and August indicate total pheasant, sharp-tailed grouse and gray partridge numbers are up from last year. State Game and Fish Department upland game biologist RJ Gross...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 9, 2019
Hunters have long known that Nebraska is an upland bird hunter’s paradise — the mixed bag capital of the Great Plains — with diverse upland hunting opportunities, long seasons, great access to public lands, and high hunter satisfaction rates. This year, take advantage...
by Alex Lovett-Woodsum | Sep 3, 2019
Sportsmen and women are connected by a desire to experience nature in all of its raw beauty; the cold rush of a babbling stream as trout sip fluttering mayflies, deer peacefully grazing in a green pasture, the sun reddening the sky as it rises up from the mountains at...
by Laurie Bogart Wiles | Aug 30, 2019
Setting off to distant places to hunt can take you far beyond the sport. There’s the prospect of adventure and new wonders to behold. How people in foreign lands embrace life, prepare their food, savor their wines and sing their songs broaden your personal horizon. I...
by Chris Dorsey | Aug 21, 2019
This week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey includes General Walter Boomer, Emmy-winning actor Gerald McRaney, Walther Arms’ Cody Osborn, and host Chris Dorsey at the famed Brays Island Plantation to experience the outdoor lifestyle at its finest....
by Robert Matthews | Aug 15, 2019
Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more “palm swells” on guns intended for field use. Whatever their merits or demerits on a target gun, they are mostly a hindrance to quick, reactive use on game, which seldom waits for you to call “pull” and seldom takes a certain,...
by Robert Matthews | Aug 14, 2019
A while back, I was quail hunting with a young friend who was struggling mightily with the little brown bullets. We were finding plenty of bobwhites in the piney woods of South Georgia, but my pal just couldn’t seem to get the hang of it. It wasn’t that he was a bad...
