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 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...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Aug 8, 2019
These practical quail hunting tips are excerpted from the article “Dan,” by Bud Temple that originally appeared in the June 2019 issue of Sporting Classics magazine. I had frequently stopped at the little crossroads restaurant 16 miles north of my home in Wabash,...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 29, 2019
First appeared in Buckrail.com WYOMING – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is asking that all instances of dead sage grouse be reported to the department so the birds can be tested for West Nile virus. Research has shown sage grouse have low resistance to West Nile...
by Andrew M. Wayment | Jun 3, 2019
“Think how pleased some old-timer would be if he knew that his pet [shotgun] is once more someone’s pride and joy.” ~ Gene Hill Most grouse hunters are sentimentalists at heart and dream of owning a good side by side, which was the gun of choice for the old timers...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Apr 24, 2019
This article first appeared at buckrail.com WYOMING – Four conservation groups have asked a federal judge to block new plans that allow drilling, mining and other destructive activities across 51 million acres of greater sage-grouse habitat in seven western...
by Matt Williams | Mar 7, 2019
A half-dozen hunting seasons have passed since wildlife researchers sniffed out a solid connection between parasites and the mysterious vanishing act of bobwhite quail that occurred across the rolling plains of West Texas in 2010. The finding has since led to a number...
by Michael Altizer | Jan 23, 2019
I will always cherish the days spent along this historic stretch of the south-Georgia coast, where the currents of friendship forever run deep. I was tired. Very tired. Pleasingly, pleasantly tired after another long and gratifying day following the pointers and...
by Duncan Grant | Jan 3, 2019
December 17th, 2018 Mrs. William Crawford Grant 102 Gold Street, Cloud City, Heaven Dear Grandmother, I apologize. Yes, I know you said never hunt or fish on Sundays. Yes, ma’am you raised me better than that. But I was thinking that you might make an exception just...
by Tom Keer | Dec 19, 2018
The pointer was facing me, and I could see that he was locked up tighter than a tick. His head was high, his tail set was ramrod straight, and there was no question there was a covey of quail under his nose. The birds were between him and me, and since it was my turn...
