by Mike Gaddis | Jan 2, 2020
Partridge and setter, each super-naturally gifted within his time. Bound within the all-consuming mission each was born for: to best the other. This story is true, as true as you wish it to be…as true as the truth of all the great grouse dogs and all the great grouse...
by Dwight Van Brunt | Jan 1, 2020
The author discovers “the most thrilling experience of my life” when a cow elephant decides to get even. It was Rick Stoeckel’s second African hunt. As with most, he had cut his teeth on plains game and couldn’t wait to return for something big. By the time our...
by Lisa Michelle | Dec 31, 2019
After pacing the house from room to room, Marshall Skinner’s eight-year-old Labrador retriever abruptly dropped a warm whelp into his hand. He couldn’t imagine where she had gotten it, until she birthed a second pup. “I had no idea she was pregnant,” said Skinner,...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 30, 2019
Hunters hoping to bag a tom turkey with a firearm this spring will no longer be restricted to a single permit area. With the exception of three major wildlife management areas, a spring turkey license will provide the opportunity to hunt all permit areas in the state....
by Dr. David M. Svinarich | Dec 30, 2019
Horses are generally sure-footed animals with a few notable exceptions, but even they occasionally slip or fall. I well remember crossing a scree field in northern British Columbia while on a mountain goat hunt. Dislodged rocks rolled for hundreds of yards as we...
by Ryan Stalvey | Dec 26, 2019
In 1954, nearly a million hunters took to the northern woods for the opening day of the Pennsylvania deer season. Each of them with hopes of bagging a big buck. All, that is, but one. Inch by inch, the afternoon sun steadily dissolves, casting an orange and pink haze...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 24, 2019
Applications for multispecies Super Tag and Combo lottery permits will be accepted by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission beginning Jan. 2. The Super Tag lottery permit will be valid for one elk of either sex, one antelope of either sex, one deer of either sex and...
by Michael M. DeWitt, Jr. | Dec 23, 2019
Do you remember the “good old days,” when the only dangers an outdoor sportsman or woman had to fear were venomous snakes, bull gators, rogue boars and the occasional rabid canine? Yeah, good times, good times. My aging father is always making fun of my generation of...
by Dr. David M. Svinarich | Dec 20, 2019
This is a hedonistic animal that likes nothing more than to roll belly up and scratch its back like a 1,200-pound Labrador retriever. It is very disconcerting to dismount your horse briefly and then return to find him scratching his back with both pieces of your...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 19, 2019
A late antlerless firearm hunt will be held Jan. 2-5 and Jan. 9-12 on private land in southern Alpena County, Michigan. The Department of Natural Resources is offering this season to provide an opportunity for deer management at a localized scale in northeast...
