Sporting Classics Podcast

The decline of Montana’s rivers foretells a new battle brewing between businesses that depend on fishing tourism and the state’s ranchers. In this episode, Chris Dorsey explains the detrimental effects of the series of sprinklers and irrigation canals that bleed the Big Hole daily, siphoning water levels so low that there is no longer enough oxygen to support trout, and offers potential solutions.  

Paul Nelson of Paul Nelson Farm, a popular hunting lodge in South Dakota, was recently killed in a tragic RV accident when his vehicle was struck by a tornado. In this episode, long-time friend of Nelson Chris Dorsey remembers Nelson's vast achievements in the outdoor industry. 

A bow hunter believes he is hunting alone until he crosses paths with three strange, ghost-like figures near Chickamauga Creek in northwest Georgia. Read by Sporting Classics' Stan Morgan. Read along.

The Big Wild host, Dan Gunderson, interviews Sporting Classics Senior Editor and author Michael Altizer. In this interview, Altizer offers insights to his books Ramblings, Nineteen Years to Sunrise and The Last Best Day published and sold by Sporting Classics. Shop Now

Chris Dorsey takes in the best of land, sea and air in "Patagonia Wild," as he visits the outdoorsman’s paradise of Tipiliuke Lodge in Argentina. Chris and his brother Joe chase free range red stag, wild boar, quail and cast flies at rainbow and brown trout. It's a visit to a countryside reminiscent of Montana from 200 years ago with stunning vistas and abundant wild game.

Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey airs every week on Outdoor Channel at:

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Earlier this year, President Trump called on Congress to send him a bill that would fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund and restore our national parks. On August 4, 2020, President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act into law, accomplishing those exact objectives.

The eastern wild turkey of North American is one of our nation's great conservation success stories and hunters played a direct role in this recovery. Today, the ocellated turkey – the iridescent cousin of the eastern wild turkey – deserves the same chance. The ocellated turkey is native to the Yucatan Peninsula, Belize and Guatemala and boasts a stunningly bizarre coat of many colors, and it suffers from the familiar threats of subsistence hunting and loss of habitat that our native birds faced over a century ago. Thanks to improved land management and funding through hunting, the ocellated turkey has recovered from the brink of extinction and population numbers are on the rise. As a model of conservation, the revenue from ocellated turkey hunting ensures sustainable populations and habitat conservation. Dollars spent through these singular hunts reinforce the true value of the species to the locals and creates a pragmatic reason to protect the gorgeous birds and the wild habitat – just as the fathers of the North America Model of Wildlife Conservation foresaw over 100 years ago.

This week in Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation Board Member Francisco Bergaz joins Chris Dorsey in the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula to hunt the gorgeous ocellated turkey.  The series airs every week on Outdoor Channel at:

Monday 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday 9 a.m.

The long search for the man-eating tigress was coming to an end and the hunter was poised to bring a permanent halt to the killer’s reign of terror.

Despite biologists at Colorado's own Parks & Wildlife Division recommending against an introduction of wolves, Governor Jared Polis has affirmed state law prohibiting agency staffers from publicly sharing opinions on ballot issues.

This week, Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey takes a look at the four subspecies of buffalo – water, savannah, forest and cape. All four demand respect and look at a hunter with eyes reeking of pure hatred. It’s a celebration of one of the greatest and most dangerous big game animals in the world.