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Francis, here's a tribute to Ed and Becky Gray as well as Pat Ryan of SI who had some great writers of sporting literature back in the day:
https://stephenbodio.com/2018/03/more-toward-history-of-modern-sporting/
Gil

Thanks, Gil- I have almost all the older issues when Ed and Becky were "at the helm"--Bodio, Reed Austin, even Rusty Chatham, all cast in the Bob-Dylan-Jim Morrison mold of the 1970's.. Best two stories about pheasant hunting were in an older issue- "The Prairie Queen" by Jack Curtis, and "There's Always Tomorrow" by my USMC brother-- John Hewitt. RWTF

Francis, my favorite outdoors writing of that era (and for any era) was Chatham's short story, "The Great Duck Misunderstanding" which first appeared in the 1976 Waterfowl Edition of Gray's. Highly controversial at the time, but it has endured the test of time. Gil

I bought a used Hardy reel from an auction site years ago, once owned by Russell "Rusty" Chatham-- quite a hombre- great writer, and the duck carnal mix-up raised quite a few eyebrows back then. He probably still has his late father's 16 gauge M12-- He was, in his prime years, once of the best fly casters going- equal in skill to Joan Wulff and Bernard "Lefty" Kreh.

Our TU Chapter in Grand Rapids tried to get him for a Banquet guest speaker, we also tried to get John Voelker- but struck out, had to settle for Ernie Schweibert-- not too shabby either- RWTF