Anthony Licata and Colin Kearns of Field & Stream and Outdoor Life

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Anthony Licata and Colin Kearns stand at the helm of the most iconic magazine titles in the outdoor industry. Anthony is the editorial director of Outdoor Life and Field & Stream where Colin serves as its editor-in-chief. In this episode Hal catches up with them in the midst of Shot Show, the day after the gang celebrated our public lands at the BHA bonfire in the Nevada desert. Join the trio as they reminisce about their adventures hunting and fishing North America’s wild landscapes, the sometimes torturous process of writing and editing, literature, authors, guns, conservation and the wealth that is our public lands and waters.

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0:00.0	It's like a lifestyle, it's like health and you just can go out there and do this, these things that actually make you a stronger person.
0:11.1	Your kids are stronger. Every time I go, I see something new and even some ground I covered before I see it in a different way and it does.
0:20.0	It makes the world bigger. It makes your life bigger.
0:24.0	Yeah, you talk about not realizing how lucky you have it, man.
0:28.0	I think we're a little spoiled.
0:29.0	Twenty years ago, you could spend thousands of dollars on a custom rifle using the best
0:34.7	rifle builder out there and get the same kind of accuracy that right now you get out of
0:39.9	the box with a factory rifle that is really very reasonably priced.
0:45.0	I mean I look at it the other way with the public land and I know you weren't saying
0:50.0	this but people like oh the feds have all this land yeah it's ours I'm gonna go there yeah
0:58.6	hello welcome back this is Hal Herring at Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcast.
1:04.3	I'm still in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1:06.8	The sun shining bright.
1:08.2	We had a big bonfire way out in the desert last night
1:10.8	when everybody got out of town, which really cool. I'd like to talk
1:14.3	about that so I'm with Anthony Lakata and Colin Kearns who are the editors of the
1:21.2	Bonnier group which people would know better as Field and Stream and Outdoor Life on here.
1:26.6	And I'm going to let them introduce themselves and start with Anthony, but I've been working and I've broke my first piece for Field and Stream in 1999, I think.
1:37.0	Yeah. So I predate y'all, but I don't have a I don't have the kind of insider knowledge I don't think you predate me I started in 98 far out yeah I wrote a piece I wrote a paper pitch in the mail
1:52.0	about game farm I wrote a paper pitch in the mail about Game Farm and Elk Farming.
1:55.8	Oh, I remember that.
1:57.0	Yeah, and I think it was Mike Toth edited it, but I got a paper piece in the mail back saying let's pursue this.
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