Sporting Classics Columnists

Jim Casada

Jim Casada, a retired university history professor, has been a fixture on the pages of Sporting Classics almost from the beginning. He is the author or editor of more than three-dozen books and is recognized as an authority on sporting literature and collectibles. His hunting and fishing interests range widely, with fly fishing for trout, game and fish cookery and turkey hunting being among his favorites.  For more details, visit his web site at www.jimcasadaoutdoors.com.

Tom Davis

Tom Davis penned his first feature story for Sporting Classics in 1985. He was named a Contributing Editor in 1986, became a Senior Editor in 1994 and has written the Gundogs column since 1990. The author of many books, including several titles under the SC imprint, Davis is also an Editor-at-Large for Shooting Sportsman and Pointing Dog Journal and a columnist for Just Labs and Pheasants Forever. He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Susan L. Ebert

Susan L. Ebert ranges from her home base in Austin, Texas, to examine women’s participation in hunting and fishing, to tackle issues involving hunting ethics and conservation and to simply adventure. Previously, she served as Marketing Director for Rodale’s Organic Gardening and as Publisher and Editor of Texas Parks & Wildlife.

Mike Gaddis

Mike Gaddis grew up in rural North Carolina in the 1940s, absorbing an abiding love for simple country values, woods, waters and wild things. Author of the celebrated novel Jenny Willow, the stirring memoir Zip Zap and the affecting reminiscence Legend’s Legacy, he resides in Creedmoor, North Carolina.

Michael McIntosh

Michael McIntosh is a former Shakespeare professor turned sporting writer.  After more than 25 years, he is the longest-tenured columnist at Sporting Classics. McIntosh has written 29 books and magazine articles beyond counting. His subjects range from fine guns to bird hunting to travel, from wildlife art to natural history. He lives amid the cornfields of Marion County, Iowa, with his wife Connie and their two unruly dogs.

Bob McKinney

Bob McKinney is, or has been, a Coastguardsman, C-130 navigator, seaplane pilot, USFS fire fighter, trucker, reporter, taxi hack, teacher, wine and theatre critic, novelist, Harley rider and lost in the woods. He’s hunted and fished from Patagonia to Alaska and lives in the mountains of Southwest Virginia.

Roger Pinckney

Roger Pinckney, of Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, is an award-winning journalist, essayist and coastal activist. He loves brown whiskey, pretty women, Mauser rifles and classic American double guns. He carves his own decoys and smokes a corn-cob pipe.  He's author of Blue Roots, a voodoo history, and The Right Side of the River, a love letter to his island home. His second novel, Reefer Moon, has been hailed as "Midnight in the Garden of Kiss My Ass." More about Roger and his work can be found on www.rogerpinckney.com.

Paul Quinnett

Dr. Paul Quinnett is an award-winning outdoor journalist, humorist, and college professor with over 1,000 stories, articles, columns, and essays published America’s leading popular and scientific publications.  Author of seven books published in several languages, he’s also the founder and CEO of the QPR Institute, the world’s largest suicide prevention training organization.

Ron Spomer

Ron Spomer grew up hunting in South Dakota, began writing about it in 1976 and has since pursued game on six continents with most kinds of firearms. He considers himself a lifetime student at the University of Hard Knocks, majoring in shooting, woodsmanship, natural history, ballistics and optics. Spomer is particularly fond of Africa, upland bird and wilderness mountain hunting.  

Todd Tanner

A former fly-fishing and big-game guide who’s been published in more than a dozen national magazines, Tanner focuses on conservation, whitetails, trout and upland birds. He writes Sporting Classics’ Fly Fishing and Wild Heritage columns, as well as feature stories, essays and short fiction. He and his family live in western Montana.

Gayne Young

Native Texan Gayne C. Young has written about hunting, fishing, history and humor for more than a decade. His quest for adventure has taken him to such far-flung places as Africa and Papua New Guinea. Read about his books and magazine work on his Web site www.gaynecyoung.com.