Outdoor Life back issues from September 1992:
Back to the future. (teaching children about hunting and the outdoors) (Editorial)
Sep 01, 1992; ... "If a man brings up his sons to be hunters, they will never grow away from him. Rather the passing years will only bring them closer, with a thousand happy memories of the woods and fields." Those words, written in 1937, bellow in my ears--as loud as each ring of the ...
Where the buffalo will roam. (Column)
Sep 01, 1992; ... Buffalo herds were almost wiped out a century ago, but they're now on the comeback trail--and sportsmen are leading the way. Once there may have been 75 million of them. Then they were gone. Now, some are back--but they are in desperate need. Bison dominated the North ...
Better Blazer. (Chevrolet Blazer) (Evaluation)
Sep 01, 1992; ... Facing up to stiff sport-utility-vehicle competition, the Chevy Blazer, GMC Jimmy and Olds Bravada are packing more power and more options to match. No segment of the off-road market is more competitively fought over than compact sport utility vehicles (SUVs). In excess of ...
The lowdown on low water. (fishing technique) (Column)
Sep 01, 1992; ... Don't let low water lower your hopes for catching trout. Simply adjust your tactics. It was the bad backside of an early autumn cold front. Strong gusts of wind hissed across the lake and the sky was sunny-bright--you can guess how sluggish the fishing was. My friend ...
Whitetail warm-up. (deer hunting) (Column)
Sep 01, 1992; ... Practice makes perfect--especially when preparing for an upcoming fall deer hunt. Many years ago, when I worked as post forester and game warden at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, I discovered that some hunters consistently killed bigger bucks than others. During the ...
Keep your cool. (construction of a big game cooler) (Column)
Sep 01, 1992; ... Finally, a cooler that's built for big game, and it's easy to construct ourself. After you build this huge cooler you can haul it to your hunting camp full of gear and bring it back full of deer (or fish or fowl, for that matter). If you drive cross-country or out of state to ...
The birds and the bears. (bear hunting) (Column)
Sep 01, 1992; ... For houndsmen, the sad truth is that the trail of life is oft paved with prejudice. Had a dog named Squeak years ago," Glenn Overstreet said. "Only hound I ever owned that stayed a whole week at the tree." Overstreet paused--for effect, I thought--waiting for that ...
Perfect practice. (bowhunting) (Column)
Sep 01, 1992; ... These few tips will ensure that your arrows fly straight when the moment of truth arrives. Somehow the big whitetail managed to sneak right under Larry Antonich's tree stand. The buck stepped toward a crooked oak branch that would be in the way if Antonich didn't take the shot ...
New offshore trends. (boating) (Column)
Sep 01, 1992; ... Wide assortments of boats and motors, equipment and lease plans are making boating better--and cheaper. When we left the lee of a Vancouver Island harbor and powered out into the open Pacific, Larry Carpenter, of Master Marine in Mount Vernon, Washington, pointed proudly to ...
Steeling guns. (stainless steel used to manufacture guns) (Column)
Sep 01, 1992; ... When it comes to the latest in stainless-steel firearms, is all that glitters necessarily gold? Let's just say that there's no need to be blue(d). When you stroll into a gun shop this hunting season you might be dazzled by a glimpse into your shooting future. Or, on the other ...
Big game 1992. (hunting season primer)
Sep 01, 1992; ... Now that your bow is tuned, and your gun sighted in, and all your other opening day preparations made, one thing remains. That's finding out what to expect once you hit the big-game woods. Here's the big news for big-game hunters. Region-to-region scouting reports show that 1992 ...
The last stand. (deer hunting from hunting stand) (includes related articles)
Sep 01, 1992; ... Have you been looking for bucks in all the wrong places? And you can't seem to tag a decent whitetail, although there are runs, scrapes and other sign proving that plenty of bucks roam your hunting area? Well, maybe you just haven't found that special stand where the buck of a lifetime ...
Maximum security muleys. (mule deer hunting) (includes related articles)
Sep 01, 1992; ... Let's take a look at deer No. 1300, a muley buck from an Idaho Department of Fish and Game study. During the carefree summer and early fall, the buck roamed his home range of nearly 4.5 square miles. But as human activity increased during the October hunting season, the buck's behavior ...
Beat the heat bulls. (bull elk hunting) (includes related articles)
Sep 01, 1992; ... In the initial stages of elk season, bulls can be bugling one hour and listless the next. Here are a few tricks you can us to crank up the heat on hot-weather bulls. A chill of excitement surged through my body as a second bull's bugle penetrated the darkness. The elk in the ...
Wild about learning. (teaching children about wildlife) (includes related information about Project WILD)
Sep 01, 1992; ... WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU ADD TODAY'S PROJECT WILD TO A NORMAL EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM? A CHILD WHO THINKS INTELLIGENTLY ABOUT WILDLIFE. A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph or otherwise outwit birds or animals is ...
Whitetail U. (courses in deer hunting available)
Sep 01, 1992; ... Are you still a freshman in deer hunting's school of hard knocks? If so, it's time you speeded up your education by registering for a course with one of the country's top whitetail-huntologists. Traditionally, deer hunting as a sport has been passed down from generation to ...
Editor's choice of outdoor gear. (Buyers Guide)
Sep 01, 1992 ... Outdoorsmen love to accumulate "stuff"--the commonly used term for outdoor gear and equipment. Face facts, hunters, fishermen and campers crave new equipment and buy it to the tune of millions of dollars each season. However, some of this stuff is doomed to sit forever in the corner of a ...
High-power bucks. (white-tailed deer hunting) (includes related article about right-of-ways ownership)
Sep 01, 1992; ... There are right ways to hunt whitetails, and then there are rights-of-way to hunt whitetails. By learning to master the latter, you could line up on a powerful-good buck this season. I'm a fool for trophy whitetails. What's more, I've been this way for a long time. Like many ...