by Simon K. Barr | Feb 6, 2020
A once-in-a-lifetime hunt amid the lofty peaks of the Swiss Alps. Nearly a decade ago, I stayed in an Austrian castle, its walls adorned with architectural-looking alpine animal skulls. Perhaps the most intriguing of those was a goat-like creature, its...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Feb 5, 2020
The Inn and Carriage House at Brays Island Plantation reopened following a six-month renovation. The circa-1930 brick Georgian-style mansion, along with an adjacent carriage house, serves as a landmark property of the 5,500-acre residential sporting community situated...
by Al Ippolito | Feb 4, 2020
“Alright cub scout, close your eyes and hold out your hand.” I heard cabinet hinges squeak open and Frank rustling through some clutter above his reloading bench. It was evening in late July and we were in his garage. The overhead doors were open, and a drop of sweat...
by Craig Springer | Feb 4, 2020
Green Bay, New York, Chicago, San Fran and LaRue, Ohio: what do they have in common? NFL franchises. But it was the rural Ohio team that was perhaps the most unusual. Its legacy lives on in the halftime show—a show rooted in marketing hunting dogs. LaRue native...
by Ron Spomer | Feb 2, 2020
A popular and knowledgeable gun writer online recently published a weak embrace of the .308 Winchester as his choice for an all-round, do-everything rifle cartridge. Like the groom at a shotgun wedding, he said, “I do” more out of a sense of self-preservation than...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 28, 2020
The Bechuana of Southern Africa, if he be rich enough, purchases a gun wherewith to attack the dauntless black rhinoceros, much preferring, as any one who has a chance of seeing Borele in all his savage grandeur will at once understand, to send the messenger of death...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 27, 2020
Extraordinary Makinson & Son .600 Nitro Express, 1,100 hours of engraving by Adone Pozzobon, serial 600, 900-grain, one of the finest double rifles extant. As is sometimes the case with unique and valuable firearms, a degree of speculation and unintended...
by Robert Matthews | Jan 26, 2020
Tahr abound among the towering peaks of the other “Down Under,” New Zealand. The challenge is getting close enough to make the shot. There is another “land down under.” Not the one you’re thinking of. It is, by any measure, far, far away from anywhere that you might...
by Larry Weishuhn | Jan 22, 2020
Q: Larry, I’ve often heard you say you never go hunting without having a mouth-blown predator call with you. Do you use it only to try to attract coyotes and the like, or, do you use it to call up other “critters”? A: What you heard is correct. I do indeed carry a...
by Mike Gaddis | Jan 21, 2020
Noah Webster was obviously a learned man, dedicating his life to language, his name synonymous with “dictionary” in America, especially the “modern” Merriam-Webster version, published inaugurally within that notable ring from the human cambium, 1828. In the process,...
