by Jim Carmichel | May 15, 2020
Lessons in Cold War economics and stag hunting with the KGB under the hammer and sickle of Soviet Communism. Did I ever tell you about the time I paid a hundred thousand dollars for a deer? The money wasn’t mine of course, and it was in rubles, Russian money,...
by Sporting Classics Daily | May 11, 2020
Deer hunters will have more opportunities to harvest antlerless deer this fall, and waterfowlers will have more hunting days in the middle of the season. With antlerless deer harvest trending downward the past few years, biologists with the Oklahoma Department of...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Apr 28, 2020
The time to apply for your 2020 Iowa deer tags is fast approaching. The application period opens on May 2, 2020 at 6 a.m. and closes June 7, 2020 at midnight, CST. Preference point purchases and applications will only be accepted during this time. In the meantime, be...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Apr 6, 2020
The 2020 deer rifle season within the Lana‘i Cooperative Game Management Area, is being cancelled due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19. The season was scheduled to run through May 17, 2020. The DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) reports efforts are...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Apr 6, 2020
Landowners who are interested in a 2020 deer gratis license can start the online-only application process now. The deadline for applying is June 3. The general deer and muzzleloader lottery applications will be available online in early May, also with a deadline of...
by Larry Weishuhn | Apr 18, 2019
I felt a slight nudge on my left elbow as I “worked the horns” in an attempt to draw in a whitetail buck out of the oak thicket. I turned ever so slowly, then followed Craig Archer’s pointing hand. “Buck, three-year old!” whispered he. The buck was charging in jumping...
by Larry Weishuhn | Mar 22, 2019
“Don’t know where that critter went,” said Juan in perfect English. “He was standing just to the left of the gray rock with the yellow algae that looks like a circular target. Obviously, he’s gone. Don’t know if something spooked him when I walked up the hill to come...
by Larry Chesney | Jan 31, 2019
I hadn’t stepped inside a high fence since 1980. That’s when I had the chance to hunt Blue Mountain Forest, aka Corbin Park, in New Hampshire. The boars, whitetails and elk inside the enclosure had close to 27,000 acres of totally wild terrain. I actually went up...
by Larry Weishuhn | Jan 9, 2019
You have no idea how many times she’s messed me up, mere moments before I was about to shoot a buck. “She’s at it again, or should I say still!” scowled my brother Glenn. “Showed up at my creek blind this morning. She came quartering in, up wind. Soon as she stepped...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 13, 2018
This comes from the final portion of Chapter 6 in Forty-Four Years in the Life of a Hunter (1859) and captures the author’s activities when at the height of his considerable hunting powers. Shortly after returning to my home, three hunters and myself agreed to go to...
