H.G. Tapply was a mainstay at F&S for nearly four decades. Starting in the early 1950s, he wrote Tap’s Tips for 35 years and in that time saw 2,500 of them published. Although the tips covered ...

Trained as a high school English teacher and coach, Scott Bestul left that lucrative field to pursue another—as a full-time freelance writer in 1990. He sold his first story to Field & Stream a ...