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| January |
Features - Should We Hunt The Muskox? (This unique animal deserves big-game status. Here's why) Lake Of The BIG PIKE (Ice anglers use two ways to take world's fastest-growing Pike), There's A Bear! (Even after 35 years hunting, I can't cool it when I hear the words), Caught In The Rushes (At bedding time this lake's reedy shallows are big-Bass heaven) The Grouse And I (How old-time market hunter set me straight on handling Old Ruff), Blasting For Ducks (New low-cost weapon makes a big noise in the battle for waterfowl), Mistakes I Lived Through (Close calls convince me carelessnes and wounded big game don't mix) Pack Up And Get Out (Our inimitable shooting editor tells us how to enjoy a packtrain hunt), Small-Water Steelheading (We get great sport on little-fished streams that clear quickly), Brown Bombs In The Bluegrass (I learn the hard way that January Quail are birds to reckon with), Old Man Of The Mountain (We expected Rhino trouble, but not like this stormy cliff-hanger), Bright New Look In Bass Boats (New small craft emphasize comfort, practicality, operating ease), The Big New Boats And The Motors (Coho stir stimulates move to improve big-water boats, motors), News Of Your Region (Special news section on hunting, fishing, conservation) Departments - Archery (Bowhunting for wild Boar), Boating (Outdoor Life boating, 1969), Camping (The adventure of Alaska), Dogs (Tips on picking a puppy), Fishing (The sneak approach pays off), Salt Water (Blitz at Popham Beach), Shooting (The facts on trajectory), This Happened To Me, The Gist Of It, What's On Your Mind, All Over The Map, Shopping, What's New |
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| February |
Features - Are Duck Laws Outdated? (New findings explode old concept of four north-south flyways), Bears I Have Known (Encounters of a lifetime have taught me that no Bear can be trusted), Bobwhite Holiday (We find great hunting for the little Quail on a fabulous plantation), New Technique For Big Pike (It contradicts all I'd ever heard about good tip-up practice), Was Elk Hunting Ever Like This? (This muzzle-loading hunt gives me great respect for the pioneers), Crappies For All...All Year (The boom in man-made lakes creates a boon for Crappie fishermen), Fat Cat (The track seemed to spell Cougar, but it really said record Bobcat), Picture It: A Bargain Safari (You can bag Africa's Big Five and a lot more on a new kind of hunt), A Sunset To Remember (I was suddenly trapped deep below ground, alone and horribly hurt), Suddenly, You Are Fishing In Italy (Unusual Trout fishing, ageless cuties make out Italian trip memorable), The 100th Rabbit (On these hunts, fathers and sons get more than meat for the table), Put New Life In Your Trophies (Want to spruce up those prized trophies? Try these simple tricks), News Of Your Region (Special news section on hunting, fishing and conservation) Departments - Archery (The future of archery), Boating (The case for portable boats), Camping (Is tenting going out of style?), Dogs (1968 Quail Futurity), Fishing (Bonefish: challenge of the thin water), Salt Water (Getting a line on Sharks), Shooting (Notes on Pheasant shooting), This Happened To Me, The Gist Of It, What's On Your Mind, All Over The Map, Shopping, What's New |
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| March |
Features - New Light On Snakebite (Unique tests produce findings that may rewrite snakebiting procedure), Charmed Circle Of The Catskills (Life on the Beaver Kill-Esopus-Roundout-Schoharie-Neversink circuit), Pigs Of The Cheery Cows (Hunting Javelina shows you how the Apaches fought so hard and long), Bass Like Wildfire (New Midwest lake makes strong bid as best year-round Bass spot), Boom In Steelhead (Fishermen get special season on 80 rivers as big Rainbows come back), The Gullible Gobbler (Pals introduce me to a hot-blooded bird that's a sucker for a call), Hark, The Hounds (Old Sankie was a friend, provider and a Foxhound without quarrel), One For The Governor (We make a big comeback for Steelheads on the River of No Return), Huh...What Hot Tin Roof (Photo story: a languorous Leopard up a tree ponders the day's events), Bownanza (We clobber the cussed Carp for sport that makes us glad he's around), Spring Bear Hunt (We'd dreamed of hunting Kodiaks but didn't expect one in our laps), Lunkers Of The Roanoke (For one month a year big landlocked Stripers take over this stream), Salmon Do Their Own Counting (A "magic box" counts Alaska Salmon, and California fish star on TV), News Of Your Region (Special news section on hunting, fishing and conservation) Departments - Archery (Now it's tune-up time), Boating (Fit out your rig and beat the gun), Camping (Try something different: bike camping), Dogs (Amateur handler vs. pro), Fishing (How to fish streamers and bucktails), Salt Water (Lowdown on jigs and jigging), Shooting (Changes in shotgun shells), This Happened To Me, The Gist Of It, What's On Your Mind, All Over The Map, Shopping, What's New |
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| April |
Features - How To Fool April Trout (Friends balk when I hand them this fly, but they never give it back), Jungle Challenge (Modern archery gear against the eight-foot bows of primative Indians), Ballard's Bass Boom (Local experts show me a few tricks in a maze of Bass-teeming oxbows), A Special Rabbit Hunt (His first hunt in 35 years shows a real sportsman never gives up), The Walleye Crawl (Our nightcrawler technique for River Walleyes is pure dynamite), Blackie And The Silver Hoarde (Bear is predator and Salmon prey in a primeval struggle for survival), The Charmed Circle Completed (Past, present and possible future of storied Catskills Trout streams), Tarpon Madness (Fight this addiction my hiring a boat, wading or fishing the ditches), The Call Of Spring (Taste of Spring Turkey in '68 whets appetites for upcoming hunt), The Lake Trout Are Back! (Easy-to-reach sheltered water, plenty of fish and no budget strain), Can You Survive? (In these life-or-death situations, can you get yourself out alive), A Bass Man In Steelhead Country (Results like ours have stubborn Northwesterners switching to Bass), News Of Your Region (Special 8-Page news section on fishing, hunting and conservation) Departments - Archery (What's new in archery), Boating (What you should know about bigger boats), Camping (How to build simple camp shelters), Dogs (Odd couples that don't mix), Fishing (Look backward, angler), Shooting (Lowdown on the mountain rifle), This Happened To Me, The Gist Of It, What's On Your Mind, Fishing Seasons, Shopping, What's New |
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| May |
Features - A Bargain Pack Trip (For $55 we get eight days of Trout-teeming wilderness lakes), We Saw The Ice Go Out (Fear gripped us as the wall of ice drifted down on our scow), Strategy For Smallmouths (Use the tackle that will give you the most in sport and fish), The Challenge (Nothing like handicapping to make aging Squirrel hunters feel young), Alaska: Unfinished Pleasure (Such fishing makes you wish you were a resident, not just a visitor), Bear That Wouldn't Quit (Men and dogs push a huge Black through wild country for six days), Our Old Kentucky Houseboat (On brand-new giant lake, we have fast fishing and family fun), An Unforgettable Hunt (We find spotty upland birds and Deer apiece across wide Missouri), Reunion At Missisquoi Bay (A native son and his kin gang up on Walleyes at a Northeast hotspot), Gone Are The Honkers (I recall the old camp, the clangor of Geese, the steamboat's chug), Rainbows And Rattlers (We find a mountain fastness alive with Trout and other "diversions"), High Adventure (I take a Pronghorn Antelope at 11,000 feet in the Wyoming Rockies), News Of Your Region (Special news section on fishing, hunting and conservation) Departments - Archery (Some offbeat archery events), Boating (How to do the balancing act), Camping (Ingenious new gear for 1969), Dogs (Weimaraner comes of age), Fishing (Ways to set off top-water dynamite), Salt Water (Tips on plugs and plugging), Shooting (Your shotgun choke and pattern), This Happened To Me, The Gist Of It, What's On Your Mind, All Over The Map, Shopping, What's New |
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| June |
Features - The Risen Giant (Once-fishless Lake Michigan surges back. Will pesticides ruin gains?), Starvation Wilderness (Food was running out, so we had to make it to Fort Smith or die), Best Fishing In Canada (Of eastern Canada's many great waters, I rate this as the top 20), I Fish The Airline (Travel this 60-mile road to an endless variety of fishing thrills), Calling Predators (Learning the music is easy, but here's how to make critters tune in), Hooked On Alaska (Magnificent Rams, awesome Bears, fantastic fishing fill our days), I Hunt With Oldtime Guns (Stepping back to old Deer weapons, I learn respect for the pioneers), High Noon For Big Bass (We lash this lake at all hours till we discover the right time), The Upshot: A Record Bear (My guide knew arrows are deadly, but his look said I couldn't deliver), We Backpack For Pike (Why hike to great fishing in canoe country? We have our reasons), Wheels For All Outdoors (A look at recreation vehicles for '69 and guidelines on picking one), News Of Your Region (Special news section on fishing, hunting and conservation) Departments - Archery (Getting the right start), Boating (The latest in inflatable boats), Camping (It pays to know your tent fabrics), Dogs (Shooting-dog championships), Fishing (Never give up on Largemouths), Salt Water (Squids and squidding), Shooting (Which wood for gunstocks?), This Happened To Me, The Gist Of It, What's On Your Mind, All Over The Map, Shopping, What's New |
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| July |
Features - Fishing Under The V.C. Guns (Armed and alert, we troll for exotic fish off a Cong-infested island), Nightmare Spring (We were starving, and I was almost blinded, but then came the worst), Swim A Jig For Summer Bass (A common lure fished an uncommon way nets us a load of river Bass), Chucks Above Antietam (We hone our game eye on chucks whose ancestors say a famous battle), The Hidden Hatch (The most dependable Mayfly sends a signal, "Fish here for big reward"), We Were In Velvet (What could be better than a high-country Deer hunt in August), Cutthroat Harvest (When crowds chase the glamour fish, I reap a bumper crop of cuts), What Walleye Secret? (Nobody broadcasts it, but something this good is tough to hush up), Breakfast At Midnight (We bear the almost unbearable to get biggest Ram in half a century), Fisherman's Paradise On Workingman's Budget (We get 10 days of fabulous fishing in Canada for $100 a man), The Big Track (My hounds trail the Bear I looked in the eye at 10 feet a year ago), Best Fishing In Canada (Top spots in western Canada, No. 1 area for trophy freshwater fish), News Of Your Region (Special news section on fishing, hunting and conservation) Departments - Archery (Keeping our sport safe), Boating (Boats for fishing restricted waters), Camping (How to avoid getting lost), Dogs (Summertime dog care), Fishing (Everyman's fish: the high-flying Tarpon), Salt Water (The big game and how to play it), Shooting (The late-blooming .22/250), This Happened To Me, The Gist Of It, What's On Your Mind, All Over The Map, Shopping, What's New |
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| August |
Features - War On Duck Plague (Can game men stave off botulism epidemic now threatening Ducks), Mystery Of The Hinkley Deer (One shot, and the enormous Buck was mine. So was a peck of trouble), Jumping With Bass (A friend provides that for real Smallmouth fishing, Crow Duck is "it"), Shelterbelt Squirrels (In these odd woods we forgot the quiet approach and gave chase), Eels Take The Prizes (Eels take everything from Blues to Swords if you have the know-how), A 'Home' Where The Buffalo Roam (We fish and 'hunt' in virtual solitude in our 'bussman's holiday'), Gray Balls Of Fire (The way to hunt the mourning Dove is with an extra box of shells), A Summer Hunt (The challenge: fine Buck and Bighorn above timberline in August), Sport Without Limit (An introduction to dog-day whitefishing cures my Trout fixation), The Mark Of The Grizzly (This was a Sheep hunt, but I couldn't forget that giant paw print), Boys And Bullheads (Put boy and Bullhead on the same line, and a fisherman is born), The Horizontal Ghost (Across the prairie ran an animal the likes of which we'd never seen), News Of Your Region (Special news section on fishing, hunting and conservation) Departments - Archery (How to hit where you aim), Boating (Which boat for your family), Camping (Things that can save a camping trip), Dogs (Standards for Beagle work), Fishing (The Big Four of the North Country), Salt Water (Eels take the prizes), Shooting (Hunting in the Highlands of Scotland), This Happened To Me, The Gist Of It, What's On Your Mind, All Over The Map, Shopping, What's New |
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| September |
Features - What About Hunting Seasons? (Are game agencies honest with hunters or swayed by ulterior motives?), Search For A Trophy (I'd glassed hundreds of Mule Deer, but this one looked incredible), Fishing In Yugoslavia (We find a wonderland of strong-bodied Trout, Grayling and Huchen), Return Of The Bandtail (Protected for 20 years, wild Pigeons again test Southwest hunters), Tuna Party (For only $15 you can join in on the fun of this Bluefin pandemonium), Float Trip For Moose (Big Bulls, small costs are our goals as we canoe a wilderness river), Bucktailing For Cohos (Will this hot shallow-water technique pay off in other Coho areas), Jodie's Cat (If your wife wants to go hunting, nothing beats a Bobcat and hounds), The Incredible Tracking Dog (Lost hunters, game-law violators, armed robbers - Reo found 'em all), A Home On The Bison Range (On to Montana for Duck hunting, Trout and more big-game 'shooting'), More Fish To Fry (Prime new lake has all the makings for new state-record Bigmouth), Keeping Up With The Gun Control Act (This new confusing gun control act is only the beginning. What next?), News Of Your Region (Special news section on hunting, fishing and conservation) Departments - Archery (What's up front kills the Deer), Boating (How to cut your boating costs), Camping (Tips on driving in the boondocks), Dogs (National Amateur Retriever Trial), Fishing (Fishing in Yugoslavia), Salt Water (Fishing the live line), Shooting (Keeping up with the Gun Control Act), This Happened To Me, The Gist Of It, What's On Your Mind, Shopping, All Over The Map, Hunting Seasons, What's New |
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| October |
Features - New Breed Of Mule Deer (Mule Deer are acting like Whitetails, so you must hunt them accordingly), Old Naked Face (Purely by chance, I was suddenly looking at an almost legendary Ram), Backpack Jackpot (We hike to an isolated mountain jewel for scrappy fall Trout), Those Shady Sharpies (My first few Sharptails came hard, but then I learned the secret), Short Order Antelope (A detour quickly fills the gap in my Pronghorn-hunting experience), Fly Fishing In A Forest (Timber Bass mean hang-ups, but these tricks hit 'em where they live), Stop, LISTEN and Look (I prove to a pal that the ears have it for early-season Squirreling), Easy Way To Pluck Ducks (Step-by-step photos of plucking a Duck the right way with wax), Green Mountain Bear Chase (A great game animal tests the stamina of men and dogs), We Plugged The Ocean (Light tackle, frenzied fish hordes mark my son's send-off to Marines), Six-Year Chase (That's how long it took me to outwit this wide-racked Buck), The Devil's Own Geese (Prehunt strategy and a huge decoy spread bring Geese blitzing in), News Of Your Region (Special 8-page news section on hunting, fishing and conservation) Departments - Archery (Bowhunter's checklist), Boating (Anchors and anchoring techniques), Camping (An outfit for every budget), Dogs (Feeding your dog), Fishing (Fall: season of big Trout), Salt Water (The Mackerel is a little jumbo), Shooting (Selecting the right bullet), This Happened To Me, What's On Your Mind, Shopping, The Gist Of It |
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| November |
Features - Getting Along With Grizzlies (Alone and unarmed in the wilds, I study and file the awesome Bears), A Stalk To Remember (After a perfect stalk, I found myself where angels fear to tread), Run For The Blue Water (Now there's a safe, convenient, fairly-cheap way to reach Albacore), Toughest Of Flying Targets? (Why we say the Woodcock is now the Northwest's king of gamebirds), It Really Isn't Rabbit Hunting Without Hounds (Good four-footed help makes Rabbits the most enjoyable quarry of all), Elk Hunter's Elk (Antlers were so massive they had to be branches. Then they moved), Bigmouths Tell All (My aquarium Bass debunk some old theories on why fish hit), Hotspot For Honkers (Here's a low-cost chance to take the top trophy of waterfowling), Stop And Go (This Deer system seemed ridiculous, but results were something else), A Bear By The Ear (Hounds, hunter and a wounded Bear wage hand-to-paw combat), Venison Fit For A King (Some Deer-dinner ideas that will make you feel like royalty), The Quiet Boom (Huge Trout now prowl Lake Michigan's shores and feeder streams), News Of Your Region (Special news section on hunting, fishing and conservation) Departments - Archery (World Championships, 1969), Boating (How to store your boat in water), Camping (The fun of snowmobile camping), Dogs (The fabulous Foxhound), Fishing (Heads up for sailfish), Salt Water (The art of bridge jockeying), Shooting (Advice on long-range shooting), This Happened To Me, The Gist Of It, What's On Your Mind, Shopping, All Over The Map |
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| December |
Features - New Way To Hunt Deer (How to move Deer out of cover and put them where you want them), Stone Rams In The Cassiar (My forecast of no-frost, no sleet, no snow was somethat in error), Pocket Cameras For Sportsmen (New ultracompacts make camera easy to tote while hunting, fishing), Bluebills On The St. Lawrence (We try for eight-Duck limits mid whistling wings, frenzied French), Fresh Frozen Ironheads (Even Santa couldn't think of something to beat a steelhead float), Getting Along With Grizzlies (In spite of dangerous encounters, I admire this magnificent loner), Big Boom For Old Ruff (Here you can hunt ruffled Grouse 4 1/2 months, and pressure's light), Lick Creek Shoot (Want isolation and a well-mixed bag? Try a small-stream float hunt), Homecoming Buck Hunt (I show my boys a thing or two - and vice versa - on our family hunt), Holiday For Hounds (To me December means lots of game, fine dogs, good pals afield), Death Waited In White (The snowstorm blew us towards agony and death on the drifting ice), Fishing In New Zealand (We sample the fabled Trout fishing of this unspoiled land), News Of Your Region (Special news section on hunting, fishing and conservation) Departments - Archery (Bowhunt for exotic Sheep), Boating (Winter projects for improving your boat), Camping (It's tough to top a tarp), Dogs (Setters: useful beauties), Fishing (Fishing in New Zealand: South Island), Salt Water (Bullfish raps and strikes), Shooting (Stock for the shotgun), This Happened To Me, The Gist Of It, What's On Your Mind, All Over The Map, Shopping, What's New |
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