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Unread 09-04-2014, 12:12 PM   #11
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I have Tap Tapply's copy inscribed by Mark Dilts to Tap saying, "H.G. Tapply - In appreciation for all the pleasure your writing has given me through the years. I hope you enjoy reading this book, especially the stories Bill has written for us... As with you, we think he's kinda special ~ Best Wishes, mark C. Dilts"
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Thanks for all the replies. I have tracked down these so far to start:

Hunting and Home in the Southern Heartland: The Best of Archibald Rutledge

Upland Autumn: Birds, Dogs, and Shotgun Shells
Tapply, William G.

Tales of Quails 'n Such
Babcock, Havilah

The Best of Nash Buckingham
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Those are a great start Bill. Your library will grow at the pace you set for it and you will develop a preference in the kind of books you wish to keep in it.
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Thanks Dean, I almost bought George Bird Evans life of a shooting gentleman but wasn't certain a biography was what I was wanting.
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Thought I had put in my $.02, but it appears that it didn't stick. For outdoor writing i like the "Gordon MacQuarrie Trilogy", which includes material from "Stories of the Old Duck Hunters and Other Drivel"
For a shotgun knowledge book, I like Bob Brister's "Shotgunning, the Art and the Science"
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Thanks Dean, I almost bought George Bird Evans life of a shooting gentleman but wasn't certain a biography was what I was wanting.
if you are interested in GBE the man, it is a very good biography (not an autobiography)- as an aside- Cathy Harper- the author has a litter mate to OH Osthaus.

she hunts and it shows - but the book is about a hunter and an artist, not so much the hunt
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To this stellar list, I would add Robert Ruark's The Old Man and The Boy and John Sargeant Wise's Diomed--a novel told from a working setter's point of view. The Wise book came out in the 1880s, so only a rare book dealer would be able to track it down. Gene Hill's books are always entertaining, and often slyly funny.
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In regard to magazines, Shooting Sportsman, Sporting Classics, and Gray's Sporting Journal are three good ones. The writing and art work in Gray's are of a very high caliber; the articles are directed toward experienced hunters. In a weak moment, I subscribed to Field and Stream . . . oh how the mighty have fallen!
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Any book by Gene Hill. He was one of the great writers, just too bad he's gone now.
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I would like to add to your list of suggestions Eastern Upland Shooting by Charles C. Norris and The Trickiest Thing In Feathers by Corey Ford. This a great thread it has given me some new books to search for as well.
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Another of my Derrydales; Falling Leaves by Philip H. Babcock (1937). A delightful book of upland shooting stories from days we can only dream of.
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