Grandpa and the kid

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I grew up in the 80's and 90's with a subscription to Field and Stream. And I think before I could read really well my father read me Dan Sissons Grandpa and the Kid at bedtime. I'm just curious if anyone else enjoyed that segment like I did as I grew up... It now reminds me of Robert Ruarks Old man and the boy, which I read many years later and also enjoyed...
 
I liked the lessons of The Old Man and the Boy, but was disappointed to learn the circumstances of Ruark's death by too much scuppernong wine. I don't remember the other author, although I still remember the cover of my first issue of Field and Stream printed in 1971. For a kid growing up with a father too busy to play much, those stories sustained me until I was old enough to walk to the nearest stream to fish, buy my first shotgun, etc. The excitement I felt in shooting my first goose or turkey was the result of years of reading and anticipation fueled by Field and Stream, then Sporting Classics, etc.
 
I grew up in a family that did not hunt. After reading Jim Kjelgaard's Big Red series I knew I had to be a hunter.
 
For some reason, I grew up with Outdoor Life. I read it cover to cover including the classified section. I always wanted to start a worm farm, learn how to raise Mink, or order some quail eggs. :)

I only read Field & Stream at the barber shop, but I liked it too.
 
LAST EDITED ON May-07-17 AT 06:21PM (MST)[p]eel, your posts make the hair on my neck stand up, our lives have been so parallel, when you post, I feel like it's me taking. :)

I read every Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazine I could get my hands on, when I was a youngster. Much of my interest in the life style came as a result of reading the stories and discussions published in those two mags.

The black and white hunting and fishing ads, in the back, for the lake trout in Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake drove me to want to travel there someday, to try my hand at those big boys. I got the itch in the 1950s and finally got to scratch it on Great Slave Lake in 2000 and again in 2001.

One of my favorite articles every month was the "This Happened To Me" page. There were some pretty crazy stories told in those 8 or 9 little squares.

The cover of those mags. would, on occasion, have a huge tarpon leaping out of the ocean, attached to a bent over fly fisherman. I have yet to get that one off my mind, but any day now, I'm going to check a tarpon off my bucket list too.

If anyone has an "inside track" on a tarpon deal, I'd sure like to hear from you. :)

I read a book called "Hell, I Was There" by Keith Elmer, a old magazine writer. He and Jack O' Connor keep up a lively discussion on the .270 vs the big bores. It's a "hell" of a book, if you haven't read it, most of you would find it fascinating, if you enjoy stories of the west and the guys that built it.

DC
 
"Attract Wild Ducks: Food is the Secret".

Wild celery, Duck Potato, Duck Millet, etc.

2Lumpy, my brother, Elmer Keith...of course! :)

I was at an estate sale many years ago and there was a stack of Outdoor Life Magazines for sale. I found one June 1942 and one November 1942. I think I paid $1 each. Interesting reading about the WWII effort and converting sports equipment to war equipment.
 
2Lumpy, now I had to look. :)

June 1942, page 93

November 1942, page 101

Anyone ever put $.10 in a envelope and order a fishing tackle catalog? Mom said "Okay, but don't tell your Dad"
 
>For some reason, I grew up
>with Outdoor Life. I read
>it cover to cover including
>the classified section. I always
>wanted to start a worm
>farm, learn how to raise
>Mink, or order some quail
>eggs. :)
>
>I only read Field & Stream
>at the barber shop, but
>I liked it too.


Pretty much sums it up right there.
 
Nice gon'en canyoncrosser!!!!!!

Ya made me get all nostalgic, then I got melancholy, and now I'm just pissed, that the best years came and went, 25 years ago.

Thanks ;-)

DC
 
eel, my weakness was the balsa wood airplanes I could order, off the back of the old Nabisco Shredded Wheat, Kelloggs Corn Flakes or Rice Krispies box, for 15? and a box top. Beg, as I'm inclined to do, I never could break Mom down, for the cash. "Money doesn't grow on trees, ya know!"

DC
 
>eel, my weakness was the balsa
>wood airplanes I could order,
>off the back of the
>old Nabisco Shredded Wheat, Kelloggs
>Corn Flakes or Rice Krispies
>box, for 15? and a
>box top. Beg, as
>I'm inclined to do, I
>never could break Mom down,
>for the cash. "Money
>doesn't grow on trees, ya
>know!"
>
>DC
+1
 
I had pretty much the same thing Eel my uncle had every issue of Outdoor life and I read every one of them front to back.
I still want to hunt Caribou because of that magazine. Lumpy you are right about the article This happened to me. There were some wild stories in there every month.

The magazine seems to have lost it's luster though as it is not what it used to be.
Oh the sixties where some good years, remember the two deer limits, deer everywhere and anywhere was a good place to go.
Big family hunts all the uncles and cousins great times.
 
My brother started subscribing to Outdoor Life in the late 50s.

I kept it up until, maybe, 1990 or so. Kept every issue too. Not long after I went to flight school, I loaded them in boxes and took all them down to the Veterans Home. Maybe when I go there, I'll see some of them again. I kept a handful of them from 1959.

I remember when it came in, I would read it 2 or 3 times in one day.

Who remembers 'This happened to me' or stories written by Trudy Turner and her husband at Lonesome Lake, BC?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Edwards_(conservationist)

https://www.amazon.com/Packtrains-Airplanes-Memories-Lonesome-Lake/dp/0888397100
 
Loved the Grandpa and the Kid stories. Traveled a lot of the areas depicted in those stories on summer vacations so it held even more value to me.

I grew up fishing and deer hunting with my dad but we never had Field and Stream or Outdoor Life at home. One year in grade school we were doing a paper drive, newspaper only, no glossy paper. People would still donate magazines and glossy adds so we kids had to sort through everything and bundle up the papers and toss the mags. One day I came across a couple Field and Stream magazines, read those things until the pages fell apart.
 
I would like to see the Umpqua someday. Meanwhile I went on Amazon and found the book by Dan Sisson. Just started reading it to my 6yr old a few nights ago. Excited to carry on the tradition...
 
Good job cc, what they grow to love in their formative years, they hang on to for the get'er done years. Ever minute of time you invest today, pays dividends tomorrow. You're a good Dad. I'll wager your youngsters grow up to be the same!

DC
 
My favorite was Fur,Fish and Game. Still get it every month
learn to trap as a kid from it. Best one out there.

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