Vintage OUTDOOR LIFE Magazine Dec. 1948 Hunting, Fishing, Adventures GREAT ads

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Vintage OUTDOOR LIFE Magazine Dec. 1948 Hunting, Fishing, Adventures GREAT ads:
$4.75

1948monthly magazine - one of the classic outdoor, hunting and fishing magazines, offered at a low price. Clean and complete -salvaged from a family yard sale a few years ago. Quite a few normal signs of age including some moisture marking and associated dampness wrinkling from having been wet at sometime in its long history (this one was at one time pretty wet, I\'d say) but has been storedcarefully and is inmarginal but usefulcondition for a magazine of this type and vintage, almost 70 years old.Has quite a bit of memorabilia/historical value in large part because of themany advertising pages.

I hope you share my forgiveness of some defectslike wrinkled pages,even including noticeable musty smell, or a faint odor of pipe smoke from Tobacco, acquired in a fishing or hunting cabin several decades ago, if I like the content of the magazine.

OUTDOOR LIFE MAGAZINE -Decembermonthly issue, 1948.

This magazine sold in news stands for 25 cents a copy. (Subscriptions, $2.50 per year, but 2 years for $4.00, or 3 years for $5.50.)My father had subscriptions by mail that came to our family mailbox, from the 1930s all the way up to the 1960s and early 1970s. When I learned to read in the 1940s, I spent countless rainy and snowy winter days poring over the stacks of magazines he had saved (which also included Sports Afield and, of course, for me particularly, Boys Life), and longing for sunnier days when I could head out to the fields, woods, and streams . . . as I soon did, starting in the late \'40s, just about the time this issue was published,and continuing from that time. Now, since I have passed my 78th birthday, I still spend time in the outdoors, though not as much as a few years ago; and I have decided to offer to others some of the books, magazines, and fishing tackle I have read, used, and treasured. My willingness to share in my old age will be your opportunity, if you share my interests.

- Cover painting by H. Hoecker, ofa hunter alongside his canoe, trying manfully to guide the fully loaded craft featuring a bull moose\'s head, out of the woods and down a small, swiftly-flowing stream.

Many good feature stories and articles:

- \"Watch Your Back Trail\"(when matching wits with trophy white tail bucks) by Staber W. Reese.

- \"Desert Water-Hole Whoppers\"(locating big bass in Arizona) byJoe Mears.

- \"No Cure for It!\"(Fox hunting in Connecticut) by George Heinold.

- \"Grudge Hunt for Coon\" (in Michigan) by Ben East.

- \"Ever Carry Out a Buck?\"by E. F. Stuckey.

-\"Bear Hounds in Action\"(Field Trials).

- \"Danger! Chinook Salmon!\"by Bob Halliday.

- \"Three Weeks - and Grizzlies Plus\" (in Alaska) by Homer J. Dyer Jr.

- Hunting Seasons for 1948-1949

- and about twenty other articles, features and sections on angling, camping and woodcraft, dogs, boating,arms and ammo, etc.

A wide array of advertisements for products of interest to hunters, fishermen, and other outdoorsmen. Check out the photos I\'ve included in this listing - you can click on them to magnify the photos and view details.

- Full-page color ad for James E. Pepper Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, from Lexington, Kentucky.

- Full-page color ad for Pontiac fastback style sedans.

- Full-page ad for Poly-Choke, for your shotgun.

- Full-page ad for Prestone anti-freeze, to last all winter, at a time when many motorists still used alcohol.

- Full-page color ad for the 1949 line of Martin outboard motors.

Many other ads, some large but the majority small display ads. The Pfleuger Supreme baitcasting reel. The Pocket Heaterette hand warmer. Shakespeare baitcasting reels including the new Shakespeare President reel, \"the Finest Reel Ever Made.\" Corcordan\'s Paratroop Hunting Boots, only $11.87 plus postage. The new Crosley Station Wagon, \"Fast, Fashionable, Sleek!\" Hi-Standard\'s two .22 automatic pistols. Western hunting knives. Langley casting reels and De-Liar. Low-cost Martin .22 rifles, in the price range from about $22.00 to $27.00. And so on - many other ads to let you know what outdoor products were desired by hunters and fishermen in late 1948.

138informative, interesting pages,approximately8 1/2inches by11 inches. Lots of photographs.

I am offering this magazine, because of the abovementioned moisture issue, at a giveaway price for a publication with this wide variety of good ads.There is some damage, as I said, but there ain\'t nothing wrong . . . nothing at all . . . with the great contents.

NOTE: I ask the buyer of books or magazines to contribute to the costs of packaging and postage. I pay the remainder of shipping costs. You are probably aware that on January 22, 2017 the U. S. Postal Service raised postage prices for the third straight year.