Outdoor Life

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Outdoor Life

Killer Instincts • This issue is dedicated to the naturals and true diehards

A Son’s First Solo Hunt, and a Father’s Lesson in Letting Him Go • A young hunter sets out to track big mule deer through the desert, leaving his usual hunting buddy behind

The Master Trotliners of the White River • Deep in the heart of Arkansas, there are a few steadfast fishermen who—despite the changing times and ever-changing river—still catch catfish the old-school way

The Buffalo Revivers • A Shoshone man fought to establish game codes on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. His son continues that legacy by working to restore buffalo on the reservation, and always with an ultimate goal in mind: to hunt them

California Dreaming • How Nintendo and a piece of discarded fishing line led Oliver Ngy to big bass superstardom

The Fearless Safari Dogs of South Africa • Working terriers are increasingly rare in the U.S., but Jack Russells are the blood-tracking breed preferred by many South African big-game hunters for their grit and their guts

Lessons from the Griz, the Last Great Fishing Legend of the North • There will never be another Midwestern folk hero quite like the Griz