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Contents: “Lucky” To Be Alive (Our duck hunting trip turned to disaster when a November nor’easter left us for dead); Can Handguns Save Lives Outdoors? (Here are the opinions of those who know baut bears, snakes and other dangerous wildlife); Whitetails When The Freeze Is On (Wind, cold and snow don’t have to shut down your deer season. Here’s how to ice your buck); The Don’t Get Lost Guide (Using a map and a compass correctly also means using common sense); Prime Time For Whitetails (You can take 80 percent of your bucks when you hunt during midday); New Tactics For New Rabbits (To get your limit of rabbits, remember they’re not where they’re supposed to be); Bowhunting’s Biggest Elk Ever (Dave Snyder has again put an elk in the Pope and Young record book. This time it’s No. 1); Bass Myths Debunked (Ralph Mann’s conclusions on bass contradict many theories but they work) Midwest Specials – Barnyard Bucks (Southern Michigan farm bucks outweigh their upstate counterparts and grow bigger racks, too); Trophy Bucks Hoosier Style (The Lincoln Hills region of Indiana grows big deer. Bucks – 200 pounds and more – are common); Best Bet For Cottontails (November means cottontail rabbits in Ohio and public hunting territories abounds); Cash In On Carlyle Waterfowl (Carlyle Lake in Illinois is a favorite stopover for massive flocks of waterfowl); Guarantee For Grouse (Taking your limit of ruffed grouse isn’t easy, but here’s the plan and the places to do just that); Wild-Country Whitetails (There’s magic in hunting out of a deer camp set deep in Wisconsin’s North Country); Great Gunning For Geese (More than 200,000 snow geese and 400,000 ducks are now huntable in northwest Missouri); Around Your Region (Kansas waterfowl hotspot, Iowa fox comeback, bigger Minnesota walleyes, Ohio winter trout, and more); A Forest Of Whitetails (The Stephens State Forest is 9,000 acres of one of Iowa’s best-kept deer hunting secrets); Old Ripper (Seeing how the boar had attacked people, I wouldn’t give him a chance to use his tusks) Departments – Editorial Trails (Words on the wind); What’s On Your Mind? (Outdoor Life covers a hit); Shooting (Coast-to-coast deer rifles); Boating (Curing the chills afloat); Taking Aim (Mismanaging webless gamebirds); Fishing (Spoons for bass); What’s New (Gear for sportsmen); Sport Vehicles (New ways to give ’em air); Hunting Dogs (Reinventing the dog collar); The Last Laugh (The skunk ladder) Reader Information – Dog And Kennel; Game Breeding; Where To Go; Classified
Issue: November 1983
Condition: Very Good