EP48 - Wildfowl Magazine with Skip Knowles

Dive Bomb Squadcast

Ashur Tolliver

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 561 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

For over 30 years, Wildfowl has been a go-to source for information and entertainment for North American duck and goose hunters, sharing the best waterfowl tactics, gear and stories. Join us in episode 48 as editor-in-chief Skip Knowles tells us about his early background as an outdoor writer, the ins and outs of being a chief editor, and all the pieces and personnel it takes to put a magazine together from start to finish, Freelance writers and photographers will also learn key information from Skip on steps you can take to increase your odds of having your work recognized and potentially featured.

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0:00.0	This is the dive bomb squadcast presented by dive bomb industries.
0:07.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the dive bomb squadcast. I'm your host, Asher Tolliver.
0:16.0	Whether you're at work, in the car, or at home, we sure appreciate you tuning in.
0:22.3	We're having an absolute blast rolling right along through the season.
0:26.2	Very thankful for the health and safety we've been blessed with so far.
0:30.3	Today, I am joined on the phone by the editor-in-chief of Wildfowl magazine, Mr. Skip, Noel, Skip.
0:37.9	What's good, my friend?
0:40.6	How's it going, Asher? Thanks for having me, man.
0:43.1	Absolutely. Thank you for joining me. Where are you joining me from today?
0:47.5	South Central Colorado, where I call home. I was just thinking, how in the heck did the two of us get on the phone at the same time this time of year,
0:54.3	in fact.
0:55.9	Yes, a lot of traveling, a lot of getting after.
0:59.2	Obviously, you're into waterfowl hunting.
1:01.2	A couple weeks ago, you text me, you were going after an elk.
1:06.6	And in addition to wildfowl, if I'm correct, you're an editor of Predator Nation and North American Elks.
1:15.6	So where does your passion lie when it comes to hunting?
1:20.6	If I, if I, if I had to choose, I am a junk athlete as a hunter, you would say.
1:26.4	There's not much I won't do. I would go out and shoot bullfrogs with a pellet rifle with you tomorrow, you know. In fact, I've done that with Fred Ecclider, but I'm with Bosnia was shooting bullfrogs. But yeah, I mean, I couldn't live without waterfowling. It comes absolutely first and foremost. And the two other magazines I run, they're Newstand Only publications, and they're big leaders within their segment, but they're just twice a year newsstand only.
1:47.4	Wildlife. The two other magazines I run, they're newstand-only publications and they're big leaders within their segment, but they're just twice a year newsstand-only.
1:57.0	Wildfow occupies 85% of my time as a subscription magazine with a large subscriber base and many, many more issues than those other two.
2:04.1	But I love them dearly. I do love to chase fur and every type. And I found myself home a lot more this fall early due to some family stuff and ended up hunting around here more. And I happen to live in a place
2:09.5	where you can, you can chase a big vanilla of bull elk, you know, within 25 minutes of my computer here
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