Top of the Flyway

Top of the Flyway

This week on Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey… It’s a wingshooting adventure in North America’s waterfowl factory as brothers Chris and Joe Dorsey head to the prairie pothole region of central Alberta for epic duck and goose hunting with Ranchland Outfitters. Every...
ICAST Presents 2020 New Product Awards

ICAST Presents 2020 New Product Awards

American Sportfishing Association held its 2020 ICAST show with 434 new products entered by more than 180 companies. American Sportfishing Association held its first “virtual” ICAST show in July. Despite not having the face-to-face interaction everyone enjoyed at the...
One Family’s Quest to Save a Species…Through Hunting

One Family’s Quest to Save a Species…Through Hunting

The comeback story of one of the most unique antelope in the world Mention Ethiopia to a westerner and images of drought and famine come to mind, an impoverished land wrapped in tragedy and sadness where pity is a leading export. Thus, imagine my surprise as I land in...
Can You Identify All 9 of These Animal Tracks?

Can You Identify All 9 of These Animal Tracks?

Whether hunting, camping or spending time in the wilderness, being able to identify animal tracks can help you become more aware of your surroundings and track down your game.   1. 2. 3. 4. 5.   6.    7.    8.   9. Answers: Grizzly bear Grey squirrel Grey wolf Marten...
How to Make Your Own Cane Pole Fishing Rig

How to Make Your Own Cane Pole Fishing Rig

Making a cane pole fishing rig: A do-it-yourself project for sportsmen of all ages Several months back I wrote a piece for Sporting Classics Daily touting the virtues and versatility of cane poles as a fishing tool. What I should have done then was follow that...
Beginning Again Come July

Beginning Again Come July

“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 life....
Hash: The “Whatchagot Stew” of the South

Hash: The “Whatchagot Stew” of the South

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 to Have a Permanent Puppy?

Wouldn’t It Be Great to Have a Permanent Puppy?

“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...
Hunters’ Ear: How Hearing Loss Affects Your Hunt

Hunters’ Ear: How Hearing Loss Affects Your Hunt

SPONSORED CONTENT Why don’t you hunt with ear protection? Prevent “hunters’ ear” with custom-fit, in-ear electronic hearing protection and enhancement for a lifetime of safe shooting Do you hunt with hearing protection? A keen sense of hearing is an important asset...
A Night With the White Goats

A Night With the White Goats

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...