by Miles Gilbert | Oct 8, 2019
What Zane Grey termed as the “Tonto Rim” in Arizona is officially the Mogollon Rim, named for Juan Ignacio Flores de Mogollon (pronounced ‘muggy-own’) who was capitan-general of Spanish-held New Mexico back in the early 1700s. The Rim, which is now home to a...
by Larry Chesney | Oct 4, 2019
Hunting giant whitetails in an enclosure had never held any appeal for me. Over the past 50 years, I’d chased free-range deer with gun, bow and camera, and I had no intention of changing that. Chuck, the editor at Sporting Classics, knew of my distaste for high-fence...
by Alan Ritchie | Sep 30, 2019
An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. Meanwhile, our horse and camel safari continued, and there were plenty of unusual and even frightening incidents along the way. One day we were charged by a very...
by Duncan Dobie | Sep 23, 2019
After the presidential bear hunt, Lilly went back to Texas and soon drifted across the border into Mexico, continuing his pursuit of black bears and cougars with a vengeance. He gained even more renown hunting the few remaining grizzlies in the Sierra Madre Mountains...
by Robert Matthews | Sep 20, 2019
Autumn is coming hard now. For those of us who follow the gun and dog, it won’t be long before the gnats and mosquitos are replaced by quail and doves and ducks and geese and we’ll be ready for some good shooting. This time of year I typically get a lot of questions...
by Charles Thornburg | Sep 19, 2019
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by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 18, 2019
This week, Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey returns to the Rocky Mountains for a free-range mule deer hunt. The episode is featured as part of Deer Week, a week-long celebration of the upcoming deer hunting season on Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel. Inspired...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 18, 2019
On September 1, Hurricane Dorian stalled over the northern Bahamas islands with sustained winds over 185 mph – the highest windspeed of any Atlantic hurricane recorded at landfall. The resulting damage to the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama was catastrophic as the...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 18, 2019
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by Oliver Kemp | Sep 18, 2019
This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. “Going a hunting” has a ring to it of romance and adventure. As your enthusiast holds forth, you sense the mystery of the forest and the mountains and the...
