Cool!:shock:

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.

Thanks Dean, I almost bought George Bird Evans life of a shooting gentleman but wasn't certain a biography was what I was wanting.

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"

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

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.

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!

Any book by Gene Hill. He was one of the great writers, just too bad he's gone now.

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.

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.