by Gary Paulsen | Nov 25, 2019
Much of my childhood in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, was excruciatingly lonely. Family troubles, devastating shyness and a complete lack of social skills ensured a life of solitude. Hunting was not only my opening into a world of wonder; it was my salvation. From the...
by Roger Pinckney | Nov 16, 2019
I threw in with the Swedes about 1972, broke down on my way to Alaska. Ten Mile hill outside St. Paul but my old truck only made nine of them. I called a buddy with a log chain. “Come get me!” He found me a garage on an alley behind a mansion on Summit Avenue, just...
by Michael M. DeWitt, Jr. | Nov 1, 2019
Protect your family from ticks – and Dad! When you venture outdoors with your family, you will likely encounter ticks and other potentially harmful parasites. Ticks and the like tend to climb up your legs to the most vulnerable and intimate of places, secret places...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 1, 2019
According to the Quality Deer Management Association’s 2019 Whitetail Report, approximately 60 percent of Arkansas deer hunters each year check at least one deer. This success rate is the fourth-highest for deer hunters in the nation. Considering more than 350,000...
by Ron Spomer | Oct 31, 2019
Hill Country Rifles is a lot like the Psalmists in the Old Testament. They restoreth my soul.It isn’t that high-tech, synthetic stocked rifles aren’t tough, reliable, deadly accurate and good looking. It’s that they have no warmth, no soul. They’re like a runway...
by Robert Sohrweide | Oct 27, 2019
My reel was hissing as line ran off it. My ten-weight fly rod was bent and shaking. My heart was beating rapidly as I felt the strong sockeye salmon fighting at the end of the line. That fish had hit my red wet fly eight feet in front of me in just over a foot of...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 24, 2019
New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is partnering with the Center for Conservation Social Sciences (CCSS) at Cornell University on a survey of roughly 1,800 randomly-selected black bear hunters to learn more about their activities, interests and...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 18, 2019
Features: A Very Fishy Story When it comes to tall tales, most every fisherman can lie with the best of them. By Jerome K. Jerome The British Invasion English cockers have won the hearts of countless hunters. By Tom Keer The Homecoming A hunter returns to his favorite...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 18, 2019
Biologists estimate that Utah’s wild ring-necked pheasant populations have slightly increased from last year, due to a wet spring that resulted in good brood-rearing conditions. The largest wild populations are located in the wetland areas around the Great Salt Lake,...
by Dr. David M. Svinarich | Oct 17, 2019
The back biter is orneriness incarnate. Given half an opportunity, this horse will gladly latch onto an arm or leg and stare impassively at you as you try to wrest your limb from its teeth. My first piece of advice regarding this animal is that horses never smile. If...
