Your favorite magazine for upland hunting

Patrick, Speaking of Fur Fish and Game.

Waaay back in the mid to late 80's I wrote feature articles for Fur Fish and Game. Kinda fun thinking back. :)

Brother Bob and Me, I'm the wildman on the right.

 
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mnmthunting said:
Patrick, Speaking of Fur Fish and Game.

Waaay back in the mid to late 80's I wrote feature articles for Fur Fish and Game. Kinda fun thinking back. :)

Brother Bob and Me, I'm the wildman on the right.

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Thats way cool!

I've all but forgotten about fur fish and game. Used to love to read that but kind of went away from it for some reason. I buy a PDJ from time to time. The only one I recieve is DU.

I used to subscribe to quite a few but have found that alot of the articles seem to be the same ole thing.
 
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F-F-G led my brother to a book called The School Boy Trapper, which in turn led to a lot of dead animals over the last forty years. I always loved the cover art. Wayne did you write about a specific type of hunting? That's really cool that was your employer.
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I was free lance, sort of. Fur Fish and Game was one of the few magazines where you could send them a manuscript and they would buy it or not and you didn't need to sell or promote a product. That is very unusual now days.

$1-2 hundred per article. F,F&G buys all rights. You don't know when or if they use it. Sometimes in a couple months sometimes 2 years later.

I wrote for the fun of it, I like critters and their habitat.
Pheasants, Grouse, Deer, MD and WT and Elk.
To make a living in outdoor writing now days You have to be sponsored and everything you write has to be about promoting products.
You have to be more of a salesman then and outdoorsman.
 
Some of ya'all spend way too much time on the crapper! ;)

I just can't stand the over abundance of ads and product pimping in magazines these days. Gun Dog didn't used to be like that.
I don't subscribe to any of them anymore, except the ones that come with a membership to an organization.
I've never looked at a Gray's. But, it sounds like I might enjoy it.

I subscribed to Traditional Bowhunter for years, and I always thought they had the best format. 4-5 hunting stories, maybe a history article, and maybe a "how to", type article. Entertaining and educational.
 
Membership magazines Pheasants Forever, DU, and American Hunter.
I have a subscription to Outdoor News and Minnesota Sporting Journal.
Once in awhile I will buy Shooting Sportsman, Upland Almanac or Gundog.
When I was in high school the library had Outdoor Life, Field and Stream,
and Fins and Feathers.
Today I wonder if any high school library has any outdoor magazines for
the students to read.
 
spoonbill82 said:
Membership magazines Pheasants Forever, DU, and American Hunter.
I have a subscription to Outdoor News and Minnesota Sporting Journal.
Once in awhile I will buy Shooting Sportsman, Upland Almanac or Gundog.
When I was in high school the library had Outdoor Life, Field and Stream,
and Fins and Feathers.
Today I wonder if any high school library has any outdoor magazines for
the students to read.
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Way back when I was in Boy Scouts, our troop had a paper drive as a fund raiser. One guy dumped a whole pile of Outdoor Life's on us. This was back in the late 50's. I was sitting in the back of the big truck going through them when I discovered Jack O'Connor. I took the whole pile home with me and the rest is history. I've had a lifetime subscription to Gray's since the beginning in the mid-70's. Its good. I also like Sporting Classics and Shooting Sportsman.
Not sure high schools even have magazines any more. Its all digital now.
 
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