by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 10, 2019
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department confirmed chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer hunt area 152, approximately 12 miles west of Bondurant on Willow Creek. The mule deer buck that tested positive was hunter-harvested. This is the first time CWD has been found in...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 10, 2019
This autumn, one of the most celebrated decorative arms collections will leave the vault for a rare public exhibition. “Decorative Arms: Treasures from the Robert M. Lee Collection” features more than 130 firearms dating from as early as 1590 through the modern era....
by Miles Gilbert | Oct 9, 2019
Many of you may have heard Coues deer or the name Elliott Coues mispronounced as coos, cooz, cooeys or something else other than properly as “cows,” as in “wait ’til the cows come home.” Here in Arizona, he is known as the namesake of the diminutive but highly prized...
by Michael M. DeWitt, Jr. | Oct 8, 2019
Before you go “popping the question” and asking for fishing permission, there are a few things you should know. Contrary to the small-town rumor mill, I did not enter into holy matrimony with my bride solely to gain access to her daddy’s prized fishing pond. But it is...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 7, 2019
Anyone who wants to try grouse hunting has an opportunity to access hunter walking trails that guide nonmotorized users through grouse habitat in northern and central Minnesota. “Hunter walking trails are a fun way to check out new areas and they do provide good...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 7, 2019
One late autumn day in 1956, Robert Dewey Ramsey, Jr. was a young man doing what he loved to do, hunting deer in the wilderness of backwoods Tennessee. The hunt was successful that day, and Robert came back from the woods with his deer. Later, he had the...
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 Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 2, 2019
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division, recently distributed information important to deer hunters on diseases they may encounter in deer and how to recognize sick-looking deer. While the Division reported that, to date, neither...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 1, 2019
The diverse Florida Indian River Lagoon is being poisoned by a booming human population. Last May, while visiting friends in Edgewater, Florida, I enjoyed a boat ride out to Mosquito Lagoon. My best old buddy in the world, Jim Carver, and his cousins Greg, Fred and...
by John Ross | Sep 25, 2019
Mention salmon and grouse in the same breath and hunting and fishing Scotland instantly comes to mind. Gentlemen in snap brim hats, Norfolk shooting jackets, plus fours and wellies to the knees, best gun poised with loader at the ready, their eyes searching the brow...
