Top 10 Favorite Books

[Double Lab]

Let's not leave out "Shotgunning- The art and the science" by Bob Brister. He's the man who really got me thinking about shotgun patterns. I had the pleasure of meeting and talking shotguns with Brister and Gene Hill in the early 1980's at a pigeon shoot in PA. Both real genuine guys.

[Autumn Daze]

Daryl, I agree a very informative book. I would have loved to have been with ya when you meet Gene. I really enjoy his writting style....it takes ya there....with a smile..

[Double Lab]

Gene Hill was the most laid back guy and really loved double guns so we had a lot in common. Back then quite a few guys shot SxS's mostly Mod21's, Parkers and high end British guns. He really knew how to capture and put into words how we feel about dogs, guns, bird hunting, or whatever crossed his mind. There has'nt been a writer since to match his style and class. He would have loved the Parker/Smith challenge at the Southern.

[Mills]

Anything by Archibald Rutledge (particularly his earlier works), The Bear by William Faulkner, The Parker Story

[Mills]

. . . Gamefield Classics by Michael McIntosh and William Headrick, AH Fox by Michael McIntosh, Tales of Quails N' Such & My Health is Better in November by Havilah Babcock, American Wild Turkey by Henry Davis, Ducks Dogs and Friends by Jack Cay (private printing in Savannah), Bobwhite Quail by Walter Rosene

[Mills]

One more . . . Audubon's Birds of America. Anyone with an interest in the outdoors should have a copy.

[Bill Zachow]

One last author no one has mentioned, Patrick McManus. He was a humorist who wrote a number of articles in outdoor magazines that always reminded me of "The Old Man And The Boy", only funnier. His articles were consolidated into 5 or 6 books including A fine And Pleasant Misery", "They Shoot canoes, Don't They?", "Never Sniff A Gift Fish" etc. most of his stories will make you laugh out loud. His best, in my opinion, details his first deer hunt which required him to peddle his bike to the top of a mountain, passing a number of deer camps on the way. At the top, he shoots his first deer. At the time he did not realize that he had only stunned it with a horn hit. Since all he had was his bike. He set the deer on the back fender and draped its front legs over his shoulders. On the way down the mountain, passing one of the deer camps, the deer comes to........

[Dean Romig]

I'll second Corey Ford. He is one of my favorites. When a lot of us were just kids we lived vicariously through the characters he wrote of in "Tales of The Lower Forty" in Field & Stream magazine.

[Big D]

Nobody could name characters like McManus. Remember Retch McSweeny?

[Dean Romig]

...or Rancid Crabtree