All excellent points.
Thirty years ago I made 95% of my living writing hunting and fishing stories, either how to do both, or just a story about a particular hunt. There was a market for that sort of STORY back then. Nowadays if you don’t kill a B&C animal there isn’t, and even then there isn’t any story, aside from what special unit you drew your tag in, or the rifle, scope, bullet, length of the shot, etc.
That was long enough ago that when Sporting Classics reprinted one of my hunting stories a year or two ago, a lot of readers asked me when I’d started writing “that sort of story.”
I would buy magazines with those kind of stories, I miss them.
