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| February |
Special Section: The Traveling Sportsman - Icemanship (Anti-lock Braking Systems (ABS) and four-wheel-drive help, but with or without such techno-aids you need to know specialized winter-driving techniques); The Lion's In There...Hear Him? (In this excerpt from "African Twilight,' the author, who has barely met the enigmatic Professional Hunter, stalks a known man-eater); Blackpowder, White Sheep (Dall sheep in Alaska...the dream of a lifetime, with the added requirement of stalking into muzzleloader range); Gearing Up For Sheep (Alaska, or any high-country hunt, makes specialized equipment demands for safety and comfort. Here's what you need); Sportsman's Travel Guide (Whether your destination is international, interstate or the next county, here's how to assure that you - and your gear - will get there in good shape) Compass - Hot Tracks; Blasters; Dinnertime; News Update; Broken Records; Sneak Preview; Great Gadgets; Nostalgia Departments - Editorial Trails; What's On Your Mind; Hunting; The Sporting Road; Shooting; The Last Laugh Features - On The Final Approach (Spring turkeys are particularly wary and unpredictable. To get your gobbler, it's going to take woodsmanship as well as calling ability); Stranger In A Wounded Land (The promise was great: a hunt on restricted, game-rich, western land. But there were many unexpected, unsettling moments for the outsiders); Up To Our Axles In Alligators (A four-wheeling safari into Belize reveals untapped potential for fishermen and hunters as well as amazing archaeologists); Fire Away (Forget cumbersome camp stoves, these new units cram BTUs into packages small and light enough to carry in a daypack - some even fit in your pocket); Conservation Council (The Smithsonian Institution, aided by Times Mirror Magazines, is bringing innovation to conservation education with Ocean Planet) Regional Section - Feed The Fever (Ohio River Mixed Bag); Fire And Ice (Great Lakes Salmon); Hoosier Howlers (Indiana Coyotes); Power Stripes (Illinois Hybrids); Hard-Time Angling (Iowa Icefishing); Chasing Rainbows (Oklahoma Rainbow Trout); Midwestern Update (Regional News) Reader Information - Sportsman's Marketplace; Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breeders |
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| March |
Features - Seize The...Carp? (Fishing for Carp has just become an art form, thanks to some slightly wacky flyrodders), They Shoot Pike, Don't They? (Spring in Vermont brings out the Pike shooters - a sport that time has forgotten), Showdown With A Man-Eater - Part II (How close do you need to get to a Lion? Close enough to smell his breath and pull the trigger), The Outdoorsman's Section: Fishing Edition (Break out the mail-order catalogs - the '95 line of fishing tackle is better than ever), 1995 Best Boating Bets (Here's the lowdown on three hot new boats that not only look good, but they are affordable), Beyond Full Choke (Think your turkey gun patterns well? Check out these outrageous "tack-driving" shotguns), The Heavy Cruisers (The Ford vs. Chevy showdown gets the Outdoor Life test, and the results may surprise you) Special Section - Ocean Planet (A report for Times Mirror Magazines in co-operation with the Smithsonian Institute) Bonus Pullout - Turkey Handbook (How-to, where-to and when-to combined for our best Spring Turkey Hunting Handbook yet) Departments - Editorial Trails, What's On Your Mind, Great Gear, The Sporting Road, Hunting Dogs, Camera Focus, Private Lessons, Camp Chef, The Last Laugh Compass - Amusement Parks, Eye Poppers, Chuggers, Hot Flashes, Threads, Right Stuff, Replay, Head Starts Reader Information - Mail-Order Mart, Sportsman's Marketplace, Where To Go, Game Breeders, Dog And Kennel |
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| April |
Special Section - Management School (Stripers are back...but will they stay?), The Candy Man (Semper Fi...semper fly, a Marine fishing tale) Features - A Season In Trout Town (Roscoe, N.Y., pop. 800 - not counting the flies), Bottoms Up For Walleyes (The lowdown on early season deepwater techniques), Mirror Images (Virtual reality can be found in your tackle box), Weatherproofing (Dress tough if you intend to talk turkey this spring), Outdoor Life Ridgerunner (Even a perfect truck can stand some improvements), Troubleshooting Toms (Mother Nature might tell you to change your ways) Bonus Pullout - 1995 Trout Handbook (Lists of hotspots in this region and innovative tackle tips highlight Outdoor Life's most comprehensive trout handbook ever) Departments - Editorial Trails, What's On Your Mind, Great Gear, Shooting, The Sporting Road, Hunting, Bowhunting, Camp Chef, Camping, Sports Medicine, Private Lessons, The Last Laugh Compass - Trout Plague, Home Away From Home, Run For Cover, Big Bass Blowout, Plugged-In Fishing Reader Information - Sportsman's Marketplace, Where To Go, Game Breeders, Dog And Kennel |
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| May |
Spring Fishing Special - Bass Guide (Bass are built to ambush prey. Take advantage of that trait when waters are warming), Walleye Guide (Learn how Walleyes see, and to capitalize on that ability to trigger strikes in spring conditions) Features - Tough Camps For Kids (Instead of a gold star for weaving a potholder, Junior can come home with a guide license), Top Guns '95 (Outdoor Life's Shooting Editor has surveyed all the entries, now he delivers his opinion), Get 'Em Outta Bed (Secrets you need to know when the spawn is on but crappies are playing hard to get), Partners (New job. Strange town. And thanks to a grasshopper fly, a lifelong friendship is formed), High Noon For Bachelors (Yes, Turkeys are early birds. But when the hens hit their nests, toms go on the prowl), Maori Fishing Camps (Know the best time to fish, calculated for where you live. An Outdoor Life exclusive) Regional Section - Spring Is For Specks (Ohio Crappies), Bluegills On The Beds (Iowa Bluegills), Border Bassin' (Michigan/Indiana Bass), Boundary Blues (Minnesota Walleyes), Little Wonders (Missouri Ponds), High-Water Whites (Kansas White Bass), Midwestern Update (Regional News) Departments - Editorial Trails, What's On Your Mind, Editor's Choice, The Sporting Road, Camping, Hunting Dogs, This Happened To Me, Last Laugh Compass - Paradise Plundered (An archaic law and modern mining technology have put Yellowstone National Park at grave risk), Loose Moose I, II, Biathlon, News Update Reader Information - Where To Go, Game Breeders, Dog And Kennel, Sportsman's Marketplace |
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| June |
Camping Section - Right Place, Right Time (Wilderness Adventures: Get to know The Bob, plus Michigan, Nevada, Virginia, Alabama and Wyoming), Fishing For Campers (Head for the Hillsborough, plus Maine, California, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Tennessee), Hunting For Campers (It's tough to top Ungava, plus Minnesota, Oregon, Iowa, New Mexico and New York), Backpacking (Table Rock's trails plus New York, Colorado, Michigan and Pennsylvania), Wilderness E.R. (Splinters you can handle, these are real lifesaving tips from a real emergency room doctor) Features - Conservation Council (Winners of the National Chevron/Times Mirror Magazines Conservation Awards), Trout In A Crowd (Make the boom in Trout fishing - aand those maddening crowds - work for you), Higher Education (Walleyes near the surface? All summer? You bet, and you'll land them with this technique), Magnifying Bass (Ponds, pits and other pocketwaters make special demands on anglers, and offer big rewards), Bass Battlewagons (Bass pros Ken Cook and Kevin VanDam show you how to rig any boat for success) Regionals - Ignorance Is Bass (Wisconsin Bass), Huskie Muskies (Ohio's Piedmont Lake), Change To Channels (Illinois Catfish), Short-Circuiting 'Eyes (Great Lakes Walleyes), Draw-Down Deer (Kansas Deer), Docking For Bass (Missouri Largemouths), Midwestern Update (Regional News) Ocean Planet Special - The Smithsonian Institution and the editors of Times Mirror Magazines present 50 ways to conserve our Ocean Planet Departments - Editorial Trails, What's On Your Mind, Sporting Clays, Hunting, Fishing, Shooting, The Sporting Road, This Happened To Me, Private Lessons, The Last Laugh Compass - Guardian Of The Land (Matthew Coon Come has already lost one homeground. He refuses to lose another), Ocean Planet, The Book, On The Bean, Caribou Times Two Reader Information - Where To Go, Game Breeders, Dog And Kennel, Sportsman's Marketplace |
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| July |
Features - Comparison: Full-Size Pickups (It's Chevy K1500 vs. Ford F150 vs. Dodge 1500), Brookies Fit For Gods (The fish were twins, but seperated by decades), Camping's New Essentials (The best of what's coming this fall), 2-Stroke vs. 4-Stroke (A test of outboards produces stunning results), Just Do It! Reblue It! (Three ways to put your gun back in the black) Special Section: How To Fish Structure - Learn to identify structure and how you can use that knowledge to target specific gamefish, Freshwater Inlets (How channels, flats and points interrupt and divert currents and attract gamefish), Top Tip: Walleyes (Go at night and ultralight is Jeff Murray's secret), Saltwater Jetties (Currents, rips and lee waters change from day to day and hour to hour...so do your chances), Top Tip: Striped Bass (Eric Brunley shows how to be a jetty jockey), Tailwaters And Rivers (Water levels can create or wipe out islands, pools, sloughs and points where fish hold), Top Tip: Brown Trout (Streamers build character, says John Holt), Great Lakes (Reefs and basins - and monitoring thermal variances - spell success or failure), Top Tip: Steelhead (Tom Huggler reveals his trolling tricks), Natural Lakes (Open-water bars, shoreside drop-offs and weed edges are just a start of the possibilities), Top Tip: Largemouth Bass (Bob McNally trusts in versatile crankbaits) Regional - The Chain Gang (Michigan Mixed Creel), Quick-Water Smallies (Wisconsin Bronzebacks), Reservoir Cats (Ohio Catfish), Designated Trout (Minnesota Trout), Pellets From Heaven (Kansas Catfish and Bluegills), Taking The 'Lunge (Illinois Muskies), Midwestern Update (Regional News) Departments - What's On Your Mind, Editorial Trail, This Happened To Me, The Sporting Road, Fishing, Bowhunting, Private Lessons, The Last Laugh Compass - Miss Wingshot 1995 (Deborah Daulton is a beautiful shot...in every sense), Bowfishing, Poetry, Video Review, Conservation, Bass, Sheep Sales Reader Information - Sportsman's Marketplace, Dog And Kennel, Game Breeders, Where To Go |
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| August |
Features - The Great Pretender (Bowhunter's can make the Antelope's legendary eyesight work in their favor), Hot Weather Got You Down (Those ultra-deep-running crankbaits can't be beat for dog-days Bass), Slabs By Starlight (When the heat is on, you can still catch Crappies under the cover of darkness), Gamefile: Whitetail Deer (Reading tracks. Velvet. What's riding on the wind. Quick facts you'll want to know), Reproducing Junior (Reviving a line of hunting dogs puts a premium on ethical and knowledgeable breeding) Outfitting Special - Outfitter's Insights (The pressure is on the pros to produce: Here's how they do it with Whitetails, Mule Deer And Elk), Guided Mis-Adventure (Outfitters understand big game, but what some "dudes" do can drive a guide nuts), Mis-Guided Adventures (On the flip side, a sport has his say about some guides he's come across) Regional - Deer In Demand (Lottery hunts), Homebody Bass (Ohio Smallmouths), An 'Ete Opener (Michigan Walleyes), A Surge In Sturgeon (Wisconsin Surgeon), Flights Of Fancy (Illinois Dove), Midwestern Update (Regional News) Departments - Camping (Horse phobia cures), Bowhunting (Instinctive shooting), Hunting (Madonna's moose), The Sporting Road (Front-seat philosophy), Shooting (Guns guides carry), Private Lessons (Slings, scrapes, flytying, Q&A), The Last Laugh (A little firecracker), Editorial Trails, What's On Your Mind, Editor's Choice, This Happened To Me, Camp Chef, Sportsman's Marketplace Compass - The Elk Girls (It's 10 o'clock, do you know where your kids are?), Cougar Camp, Hatchery Hassles, Ducking The Issue |
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| September |
Special Section: Deer - Mock Scrapes & Bogus Branches (You'd better know what you're doing if you intend to fool Mother Nature), Playing The Field (By revising your tactics you can harvest cropland Whitetails this fall), Should You Take This Shot? (Take out that No. 2 pencil, keep your eyes on your own paper, and learn) Features - Rattling For Battling Elk (A startling new technique, but with eight years of successful study behind it), Gamefile: Elk (Pick-up pointers about antlers, bugle calls and bad-tempered bug Bulls), Calm, Cool & Neglected (Streamers and still-water Trout are an autumn combination that shouldn't be overlooked), The Ultimate Caliber (If you're going to invent a cartridge, make it one that does everything well), Structure Hunting For Doves (It pays to think like a Bass fisherman when setting up for these popular birds) Regional - Deer And Big Game Guide '95 (An exclusive state-by-state forecast to aid you in planning your hunting this season), Regional News (Record Walleyes, Pheasants on the rise, regs loosened) Departments - Editorial Trails, Whaat's On Your Mind, The Sporting Road (The call of single malt), This Happened To Me (Gator raid), Conservation Council, Bowhunting (Silence, please), Camping (Light reading), Hunting (Bright muleys), Editor's Choice (Good stuff), Private Lessons, Mail-Order Mart, The Last Laugh (The teaching aide) Compass - Posewitz's Law (Hunting doesn't depend on owning an estate), Casting For Culprits, Please Don't Say Plastic, No Walk In The Park, Home For The Brave |
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| November |
Special Section: Small-Game Forecast - A state-by-state rundown of conditions and prospects this fall, here is the most comprehensive small-game forecast ever compiled, Upland Birds , Waterfowl, Furred Animala Features - The Magnificent Eight (In a remarkable feat of photography, watch a button Buck mature into a trophy 8-pointer), Advanced Placements (Learn the secrets of combination Duck/Goose decoy spreads...and see some myths exploded), In The Presence Of Game (Reacting appropriately at the moment of truth may be the most difficult Deer-hunting skill to acquire), Recognize The Gift (Old farms offer outstanding wingshooting, but at a price hunters should recognize and respect), In Deep (These tips will guide you into the deepest, darkest spots where monster Bucks are bedded), Stirring Things Up (Take a wok on the wild side to bring out the best in the game you cook up), Gundog Fuel (Here's how to seperate the right stuff from the nutrition babble when preparing dogs to hunt) Regional - Luck Of The Irish (Missouri Whitetails), The Feathered Variety (Ohio Waterfowl), Backwoods Bucks (Wisconsin Deer), Tagging Up (Michigan Whitetails), The Triple Play (Kansas upland hunting), Bluffing Gobblers (Minnesota Turkeys), Midwestern Update (Regional News) Departments - What's On Your Mind, Compass (Quick-draw revival...Bluefin Revelation...Ford's 150 Redone), Bowhunting (Stalker's secrets), Fishing (Made-to-Measure Ponds), Shooting (The Scoop on Scopes), Camping (Next Year in Previews), Editor's Choice (Boots and Calls), This Happened To Me (An Important Point), Private Lessons (Shot Selection, Distance casting), Marketplace (Where It's At), The Last Laugh (Of Grouse And Men) |
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| December |
Features - Downtown Deer (It's not just that Deer have invaded the suburbs. They're big Deer that require new hunting strategies), 40-Year Buck (A hunting heritage passes from father to son, transcending mere coincidence), Gamefile: Quail (Quick! Is that a mountain Quail? A Montezuma? A spotter's guide to these great gamebirds), Shooting With The Experts (Two master Pheasant hunters instruct the author in the frozen fields of Iowa), 20 Reasons To Move (The most livable towns in America for the sportsman), The Skies Are Black, The Ducks Are Back (The best winter waterfowling season in years is on tap. How to cash in on the bonanza), Holiday On Ice (One family's celebration centers around Perch, Pike and - for a few wonderful years - Trout) New Section: Special Sporting Gear - Binoculars, Ford's F-150, Ski-Doo's Skandic, Orvis Trident Rods Regional - Icy Steel (Michigan Steelhead), Smoking Bucks (Iowa Whitetails), Open Season (Wisconsin's Open Water), Snow-Belt Cotton (Indiana Rabbits), Iced-Over Panfish (Ohio Icefishing), Rainwater Roosters (Nebraska Pheasants), Midwestern Update (Regional News) Departments - Editorial Trails (Gift giving), What's On Your Mind, Compass (Fishing at the barre...big upset...clear-cut confusion), Bowhunting (A boaring tale), Hunting (On the Money), Sporting Road (Christmas Goose), Shooting (Binocular Buyer's Guide), This Happened To Me, Private Lessons (Shooting sticks...skinning birds...knot news), Marketplace, Last Laugh |
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