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In few places has there ever been woodcock shooting that for certainty of finding the birds and ease in following them equaled the sport of the bottom lands of the upper Mississippi River 20 years ago. Scarcely any of the resident sportsmen then troubled this charming bird, the estimation of game at that time depending […] The post Woodcock Shooting on the Upper Mississippi first appeared on…
Conservation has a communication problem, and pretending otherwise may be one of the greatest threats to its future. We have extraordinary scientists, experienced land managers, passionate philanthropists, dedicated hunters and anglers, conservation organizations, government agencies, and local communities doing remarkable work. We have mountains of research explaining what healthy landscapes…
The gun has to be capable of dropping everything from ten-pound dik-dik to 2,000-pound eland. The post The Best Plains-Game Rifle for Africa first appeared on Sporting Classics Daily .
The place was called Boise City, which was something of a joke to anyone who had actually been there. It wasn’t even a town, much less a city—a few cleared fields around a dirt track where trappers and Indians pitched their teepees and caravans of covered wagons could park on their way to the Oregon […] The post The Strange Saga of Henry Bauman first appeared on Sporting Classics Daily .
“It was him!” said Charlie as he strode into our Game Trails Kentucky camp kitchen. “He was at least five miles from where you saw him last November. He was with two other bucks near the end of Bell Road close to the river. No doubt it was him! Same antler style, but this year […] The post The “Don’t Shoot” Buck first appeared on Sporting Classics Daily .
Mark, Richard and I dangle from toes and fingers on a steep slope 2,100 feet above the surf. We’ve finally broken out of the claustrophobic alder thickets, and behind us the view is spectacular—the islands of the Kodiak archipelago rise green and brown and black from dark blue water, puffs of whale-spouts rising here and […] The post Hunting With a Mission on Kodiak Island first appeared on…
Easton, Maryland – Following their $10 million auction held in April, the St. Michaels, Maryland based auction company Guyette and Deeter, hosted their annual summer auction at the Country School on July 24th and 25th. The two-day decoy and sporting art auction brought in $6.5 million, which was substantially more than expected. With 13 items […] The post Big Bucks for Old Ducks first appeared on…
America’s wildlife agencies have spent years developing an ambitious program called R3—Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation—designed to persuade more ordinary citizens to hunt and fish. The theory is that agencies should recruit newcomers, retain current sportsmen and reactivate those who have wandered away from the outdoors, perhaps after discovering that golf entails fewer opportunities to…
His rifles armed world powers in titanic wars, and hunters in the greatest game fields on Earth. The spoor, braided at first, was unraveling. “Ready to bed,” John mouthed the words. Short yards ahead, a patch of dried mud came to eye—two feet off the ground. Hand-signals split the trackers. Probing carefully, we located seven […] The post Paul Mauser: The Man Who Repurposed the Door Latch first…
I was once a wanted man, a man on the run with a woman in hot pursuit, one of my exes with a .44. It was for a trifling indiscretion, or so it seemed at the time. All I had was my overdue Visa and a quarter tank, but my Ford was faster than her Volvo. […] The post Dead or Alive: John Wesley Harden and the 44 Schofield first appeared on Sporting Classics Daily .
Looking for a different kind of bird hunt this fall? If so, a clapper rail hunt—an interesting hybrid of upland and waterfowl hunting—in the coastal waters of Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay may be the answer. Though not as popular as it once was, chasing these shorebirds on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay for both […] The post Chasing Chesapeake Rail first appeared on Sporting Classics Daily .
An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. During the next few weeks we’ve changed locations many times with a series of fIy camps, sometimes setting up without anything except mosquito nets. The whole experience was intriguing. I must admit, though, sometimes at night in a […] The post Ruark On Safari: Gin first appeared on Sporting…
What better way to celebrate a lifetime achievement than with a British Best gun. There is no one in the world who doesn’t like being rewarded for hard work. Whether it’s a book well written, service to the nation or success in popular entertainment, the good and the great have, throughout history, imagined themselves possessing […] The post Patron Power first appeared on Sporting Classics Daily .
