Gee, then you have copies of some of the issues when I was editor for a little while, around 1996.
I actually sold the second story of my career to Gray's during its first year, back in 1976 or so. Back in Ed Gray's day I wrote for them pretty steadily, as for a while they were about the only magazine that printed Me'n'Joe stories. Then some of the other magazines picked up on it (again). There is still a market for hunting narratives, but even in the heyday of Gray's, when other decent-paying magazines were buying quite a few as well, it was pretty much impossible to make a living at it.
Which is why I eventually branched out to other things, like optics and firearms, along with how-to hunting stories.
