by Chris Madson | Apr 18, 2022
Contemplations on the ethical hunt. I saw the yellow Rank and the branched antlers as he stepped through a thin place in the second-growth timber, maybe 70 yards away. He was gone before I could even slip the rifle sling off my shoulder, let alone shoot. The wind was...
by H. William Rice | Mar 4, 2022
And now, he realized, he also knew something about these woods and waters his father had hunted and fished — something deeply personal. The boy was the youngest and smallest of the cousins, so at the family’s gatherings, his cousins would reluctantly let him...
by Chris Dorsey | Feb 3, 2022
Colorado residents are now mystified that the state’s legislature is about to take up a controversial bill that would ban mountain lion and bobcat hunting. Not long ago, Denver could have been the literal manifestation of Ronald Reagan’s, “shining city on the hill.”...
by Mike Gaddis | Jan 3, 2022
Islands in the stream…eras in the flow of a man’s lifetime. Days lapse January meager now, and this one is dying. In the twilight of its wake, snow is born. Death to one, life to another. Waylaid at my threshold by the magic, rescued from the zephyr of...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 17, 2021
SPONSORED CONTENT What kind of mountain rifles do you get when you combine the input from more than 50 hard-core sheep hunters and guides and then take five years to design, research and test those ideas? High-altitude hunting delivers many challenges. It’s...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 16, 2021
GFP Shares Important December Dates – several major dates individuals need to be aware of as GFP transitions to a new e-commerce system. The new e-commerce system is called Go Outdoors South Dakota and will go live December 15, 2021. This system combines the...
by Scott Crawford | Nov 5, 2021
As countless millions of outdoorsmen’s and women’s hunting plans are structured around the seasons, they are done so usually without spending a moment contemplating when our last season will roll around. Each year I read articles of famous outdoorsman...
by Mike Gaddis | Nov 1, 2021
A fella posed a question the other day that caused me pause… He asked, “When’s the last time you did something for the first time?” Not when’s the last time you did something again for the first time in a long time. But the last time you did something for...
by Scott Linden | Oct 27, 2021
There are plenty of canine rock stars, field trial money-makers, legendary bird dogs memorialized in literature, magazine stories and on hall of fame walls. But I’m a man of simple tastes, so those dogs that do yeoman’s duty are the ones that nudge their way into my...
by Luke Clayton | Oct 12, 2021
With fall hunting seasons quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to visit this week about scouting and learning land that you are not familiar with. For a quarter century, I made my living first working on and later running survey field crews. I remember...
