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'I WAS ONE OF FIVE KIDS BORN TO HIPPIE PARENTS who discovered they really didn't want to have five kids after they had them. We always had cereal and milk [...]

AS THE OLD YEAR WINDS DOWN, a man takes stock of his performance. Even adjusted for inflation and moral turpitude, I'm not a candidate for the gifted and talented track. [...]

Wool is the AK-47 of fabrics. It's been around forever (a scrap taken from a Danish peat bog was determined to be 3,500 years old); it weighs a lot; and [...]

WHEN YOU ONLY get to see your daughter every other weekend, there aren't many good excuses for being late. And 'I lost track of the time' definitely doesn't cut it. [...]

FALL IS A BUSY TIME in the animal kingdom. Hormone levels rise markedly. Daytime activity increases. Feeding and travel patterns change. The sexes largely segregate themselves. Males who were on [...]

WHENEVER I WALK INTO a big-box sporting-goods store, it feels like a camera locks onto my wallet, looking for ways to drain it. You want a nice compound bow, a [...]

ALTHOUGH I HAVE the social skills of a box turtle, I've always secretly believed that I have a dynamic personality. This notion has been sorely tested by my recent move. [...]

I HAD TURNED THE WHEEL hard left 20 seconds ago, but the houseboat wasn't cooperating. It was still headed for the shoreline like it couldn't wait to butt heads with [...]

NO MATTER HOW many times it happens, returning to the 'normal' world after even a few days in the wild still hits me like a sucker punch. Two hours ago, [...]

THIS MONTH'S magazine is devoted to the future, mostly because it greatly speeds up fact-checking. Like everyone else who tells lies for a living, I have seen the future, and [...]

THIS JUST IN: Carrying a cellphone in your pants can lead to fewer and slower-swimming sperm, according to a recent South African study. In men, that is. Researchers think the [...]

DON'T TAKE this the wrong way, but you're a moron. It's O.K., I'm a moron, too. That's because we hunt. And while surveys say that public acceptance of hunting has [...]

I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT that the most significant contribution I could make to the greater good would be to refrain from becoming involved. But when I see a force at work [...]

THERE WAS ONE Christmas tradition around my childhood home that I learned of only recently--the drugging of the children. Or at least me. 'Olivia was fine, but you were always [...]

This is Field & Stream's premier installment of American Scene, a series of fly-on-the-wall reports on outdoorsmen participating in the actual chase and in all manner of rituals that are [...]

Some days -- a lot of days if you're a game-show host or John F. Kennedy Jr. -- your brain just seems to take a vacation. You lose your train [...]

One more try. We part the 4x4 in a field and walk single-file down a ridge path through the hardwoods, calling every 100 yards. It's late morning in Virginia, the [...]

MY AHA! MOMENT in magazine writing came years ago while researching a story about relationships for Men's Health. I was interviewing a psychologist, who noted that I was asking 'unusually [...]

HUNTING AND FISHING have gotten me through some of life's rougher patches. When some defeat of the heart or career left me paralyzed and clueless, when what I believed suddenly [...]

DAVID E. PETZAL scares me a little. In a good way. Mostly. His unsurpassed knowledge of all things firearms is a given. But it's the man himself that you remember--a [...]

AS A 21ST-CENTURY outdoorsman, I'm constantly redefining what it means to be manly. Frequently, it involves using products originally developed for women. On a late duck hunt some years back, [...]

ABOUT EVERY 10 years, I organize my fishing tackle. Before entering my basement, I should don a safety harness, leave a note stating my intentions, and stamp a footprint in [...]

GOOD NEWS! I've already ruined Father's Day for a few of you. Come June 16, instead of the gift card for Bass Pro Shops that you were hoping for, you [...]

THE TERRIBLE PRIMACY of fishing in the human psyche--O.K., in mine--was recently brought home to me for the millionth time. It began when Michelle called, excited at having found a [...]

MY GRANDFATHER, who gave my father his name and me mine, died when I was 16 and still too young to be curious about old men. I do remember that [...]

SOME BLEAK FEBRUARY mornings it's all a guy can do to rise, eat an 18-ounce bag of white corn Tostitos, and go back to bed. Then one morning you wake [...]

Photograph by Donald M. Jones It I spent nine hours photographing this bull in western Canada, and he never once showed any sign of aggression. The next day, though, the [...]

I'M REACHING OUT,' the e-mail began, 'on behalf of prosthetics company Ossur.' They were pitching the inspirational story of an employee, a hunter who had lost a leg to cancer. [...]

All I know is the tug in my blood that announced itself suddenly in my late thirties must have come from someplace. I can't lay it at the feet of [...]

'CAN I TELL YOU SOMETHING?' the famous outdoor writer asked suddenly. We'd been in his jeep for about 100 miles on our way to a tidal river on Maryland's eastern [...]

I keep opening the hatch to the livewell to make sure this is really happening to me. Inside is a largemouth twice as big as any I've ever caught before: [...]

Psychology professor Linda Sapadin has identified six types of procrastinators and how they can overcome their behavior. 'Dreamers' want to avoid pain and to feel they are special, but what they need to do is realize the satisfaction of real accomplishments., There are things you can do right now to improve your life. Here's why you're not doing them I WAS SUPPOSED to finish this article two years ago, but I [...]