Books

[Mills]

I love outdoor books too. Favorites include Archibald Rutledge, Corey Ford, William Faulkner's the Bear, Hemingway, Jack London and Corey Ford. Havilah Babcock is a must for quail hunters. Really, there are too many to list.

[C.O.B.]

Sporting Classics has a new book out called The Greatest Quail Hunting Book ever which I am about to order. For decades I was a member of Amwell Press through The National Sporting Fraternity and have amassed a good library.

For a long time Africa has held a special place for me and I just finished a collection of stories assembled once again by Sporting Classics. Santa brought me Incidents from an Elephant Hunters Diary by W.D.M. Bell and a bottle of Jack Daniels Single Barrel. I think this weekend it's time to put 400 grain solids in the double rifle (figuratively speaking) a few cubes of frozen water in a glass and the Single Barrel and go Elephant hunting.

[Phil Yearout]

Originally Posted by Mills Morrison

I love outdoor books too. Favorites include Archibald Rutledge, Corey Ford, William Faulkner's the Bear, Hemingway, Jack London and Corey Ford. Havilah Babcock is a must for quail hunters. Really, there are too many to list.

Agree except for Rutledge; for some reason I just can't like his work. I was all excited the first time I picked up a few of his books, but they just left me cold. It's gotta be me, 'cause I like others from the era...for me reading him is like reading Emily Dickinson (or would be, if I ever read Emily Dickinson ).

[Mike Poindexter]

While I'll always have a soft spot for Buckingham's Play House, two recent reads, both non-fiction, I found better than average: The Devils Teeth by Susan Casey, about the Farallon Islands and Great Whites and the toughening up of a city girl, and Dead Wake by Erik Larson about the last crossing of the Lusitania and a pretty good view of life in 1915. Enjoy.