For Years Now,-I've Had a Special Feeling for the Regular Outdoor Life Feature, -"This Happened to Me!" Many of you I'm Sure Know It Well!,-and Have as Fond a Feeling for It as Do I. Some of you may Not be so Familiar with It,-however,-Perhaps Not even Having Heard of It At All! And So for you Who Aren't, -I'd Like to Introduce you to It! -And For Those of you Who Are,-I'd Like to Give you a Good, Friendly, -Reminder of It!

I'd Also Like to Mention something of It's Availability in Book Form Now.

This Great Feature is of course a Page Done every Month,-in Sort of a "Comic" Format, -but It is Not a Purely Humorous Piece,-It is Not a Comic as such.

Each One Tells a True Life Outdoors Tale, -Submitted by Someone Actually Having Experienced It Out There!,-in Real Life! -Animal Encounters and Attacks, -Being Trapped, Stranded, or Socked In by the Weather, Etc Etc Etc. Often It Depicts some Really Unique, -There On the Scene, -and There At the Moment!, -Behaivoir of some Individual Animal.

A Talented Artist from OL Draws It,-The Story Following in Captions Below. It Succinctly yet Comprehensively Leads you Thru the Experience!,-From Beginning to End!, -All in the Space of a Single Page. It Takes No More than a Few Minutes to Read One, -and Thats Going at It with a Nice, Relaxed Slowness,-as you Enjoyably Let It Simmer So! -Kinda the Way the Piece was Meant to be Read!

It Typically Tells of a Moral or Real Life Lesson, -Which is Plainly Evident by the Time you Come to It's End.

The Drawings of Jagged Tree Branches, Rock Outcrops, Placid or Ruff Watered Lakes and Rivers, or a Standing or Chargeing Bear!, -Make you Feel as If You Were There! It's of That Great Outdoors Spirit!, -Thru and Thru!

I Fell in Love With It!,-The First Time I Saw It!,-as an Older Kid Back in the Later 60's. And It Had been Running for Years and Years Before That!, -and Continues Right On Up to the Present Day!

Now It's Out in Book Form!,-You So are Now Able to Avail Yourself!,-of All That Years and Years Worth! Outdoor Life has Gathered a Lot of Those Together in One Place, -Their Very Best of Them! -Doubtless Many Great Ones also Had to be Left Out!

But if you've Missed Any of Them over the Years, -here is a Great and Ready Resource, -in Which to Again Find It! -Or Meet Up with It,-For the First Time!

This New Collection in Book Form,-is Perhaps Several Years Old Now. I've Found It in a Quality Used Book Store,-Half Price Books,-Which Exists in perhaps Half the States. You'll Typically See One to Several Copies There,-Once you Find their Sports / Outdoors Section, -Where It is Located. It's a Reasonably Sized Paperback,-and Blue Spined,-if that could be Helpful. OL Puts Out a Number of Other Quality Outdoors Books,-as Well.

Of Course I Also Fondly Have the Same Sort of Special Feeling!,-For the Magazine Itself!,-Along with the Other Two, Similar, Top Notch Outdoor Magazines,--Field and Stream, and Sports Afield. I Have Many Back Issues of All 3, -Though There's Also Many that I'm Missing! There's Lots of Good, Useful, Great Outdoors Information,-in All of Them! They Largely Revolve Around Fishing, Hunting, Trapping, and the Firearms and Other Equipment that Goes Along with It. -No Surprise. But They Also Go Into Many Other Great Outdoors Areas as Well!

And While on this Topic,-I've Got to Make Mention of Another!, -Something Many of the Pennsylvanians Among Us,-May Be Well Familiar With! -And That is our "Pennsylvania Game News"! This Nice, Unique Little Outdoors Magazine!, -I Too!,-Loved the First Time I Saw It!,-Also Back in that Mid to Late 60's of a Time! And It Too is Still Plugging Along!,-as Great as Ever! -There's Always Some Really Nice, Well Done Outdoors Picture!, on the Front Cover! -Plus What you'll Find Inside! Naturally It Focuses and Centers on our Great Pennsylvania Outdoors Here, -and is Put Out by our State Game Commission. It Too Contains a Lot of Good, Useful, Outdoors Information. It is, I Think,-One of Our Best Kept Secrets! If Already Familiar,-I'm Glad to Have Reminded you So!,-If Not,-I'm Just as Glad to Have Introduced you to It! I'm Sure that Other States, Provinces, and So On,-Also Put Out Similar Great Outdoor Publications.,-Some of These Too,-May Be just as Specially Unique!, -How is Your's!?! I'm Unaware of Any Such Others,-Being Familiar with Only my Own. So How Bout Your's Too?!, -What Kind Have You Got?!

Once Again,-to Sum Up,-Our Outdoor Life has Had this Great Feature, -"This Happened to Me!",-All of These Years!,-and Still Does! And Has Recently Gathered a Great Collection of Them!,-Into Book Form. It's by the Same Name,-"This Happened to Me!" -Only Naturally!,-I Highly Recommend It! I Urge you to Go Get Yourself a Copy,-If you Can,-Sit Down,-Perhaps By the Fire!,-For a Good Lookover and Read!,-Sometime. It Will, -"Take You There"! [color:"black"] [/color] [email]ScottRezaLogan[/email]

And Oh Yeah!, -Don't Forget "Beautiful British Colombia" and "Arizona Highways" Too! -What Standouts! [color:"black"] [/color] [email]ScottRezaLogan[/email]

And Oh Yeah! -Boy's Life Magazine's "A True Story of Scouts in Action"! I'm Sure that Many of you Remember This from your Own Scouting Days! In my Case, -It is Fondly Remembered! And Regarded!

It's of Similar Quality and Format!, to How Well Outdoor Life Does their "This Happened to Me!" Every Issue here too, -Carried This Outstanding Feature!

Of a True Life Lifesaving or Other Emergency Situation, -Properly and Exemplarily Carried Out by Prepared, Quick Thinking Scouts, -Who Happened to be On the Scene.

It is Not Only Informative and Enjoyable, -But Inspiring!

Perhaps the Boy Scouts of America shud Come Out with a Collection in Book Form as Well! (I Acknowledge it is Possible that at some Point, -They may Already Have Had.)
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