Outdoor Magazines Turning Digital

It started for me long ago. My daddy always had

a copy or two of the Big Three in outdoor maga-

zines – Field and Stream, Sports Afield or Outdoor

Life lying around and one of my early childhood

pleasures was picking one up, flipping through the

pages and reading articles written by guys

that became my heroes.

My favorite was Grits Gresham. I

thought of him as a local guy since his

hometown, Natchitoches, was only 40

miles or so from where I grew up. Grits

would transport me in fantasy to far dis-

tance lands as he wrote about hunting wild

game animals all the way from Colorado to

the Congo.