“In every journey the road will bend. Who can know how the story will wend? To every beginning, there must come an end.” Cliché? Maybe, but profoundly, as inescapable truths that bracket the birth-to-death limits of our being. In the between time, there is...
A large, dark brown bear appeared on the ridge above us. The sound of Craig’s one shot was all it took for that top predator to home in on us. Soon after being put ashore we jumped a huge buck at sixty yards that took off quartering away to the right. I told him to...
How to use less desirable wild game cuts to make a great South Carolina Barbecue Hash “No one knows exactly what the ingredients of Whatchagot Hunter’s Stew are because there is a firm rule against anyone shining a light into it.” – Patrick F. McManus “Only a fool...
“Wouldn’t it be great?” Kjos said again, his blood up, completely dismissing the ducks, “To have a permanent puppy, to have first love over and over again?” The sun slept in that years-ago Utah morning over the Salt Lake marshes. Where Kjos and I were guests in an...
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For rugged grandeur and soundless solitude, pursue the majestic white goats in their mountain haunts. Having hunted elk, sheep and other big game through the West in previous years, we were anxious to add a goat’s head to our modest collection. After many inquiries...
Duck Stamp and wildlife artist, Maynard Reece, died July 11, though his legend will live on through the artwork he created over the past century. Maynard Fred Reece was born to Waldo and Inez Reece on April 26,1920 in Arnolds Park, Iowa. After graduating from Earlham...
Shooters from across the U.S. will be competing to make the U.S. Helice World Team that will compete in Italy in the fall of 2020. Helice is one of the fastest growing shotgun shooting sports in America and is expecting about 80-100 competitors to participate in the...
In episode 3, season 2, Chris Dorsey and family travel to Saskatchewan’s Wheeler River Lodge for bear hunting. This week, Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey features a family adventure far off the grid as Luke, Nate, Amy and Chris Dorsey enjoy a Saskatchewan...