Yall - I have the photo but need a few free minutes, that I do not have now, to post. It's an archival photo from a biography, etc. As the crew here is well read, I am hoping someone has seen a reference in a biography or academic piece about his guns. My friends in academia who are well-read in Leopold aren't going to notice or remember a tidbit on what brand gun he preferred.
A Sand County Almanac is easily one of the most influential pieces written on conservation and is laced with deep conviction. Though in reading one can easily see his struggle with how humans use natural resources and he commonly mentions who we "over recreate." He was an early advocate of bow hunting (in the 1930s, 40s) and was truly bothered by the automatic.
I offer this quote:
"Take a look, first, at any duck marsh. A cordon of parked cars surrounds it. Crouched on each point of its reedy margin is some pillar of society, automatic ready, trigger finger itching to break, if need be, every law of commonwealth or commonweal to kill a duck. That he is already overfed in no way dampens his avidity for gathering his meat from God." - Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac
and
"There are two kinds of hunting: ordinary hunting, and ruffed-grouse hunting."
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