Subtle, but sure, signs of Fall hunting -- What are yours?

[Researcher]

The last official sunset for the year in the 8 o'clock hour.

[mobirdhunter]

8:00 PM here, too, in Northern Missouri. Even after hot days, there is now enough darkness to cool us to below 70 degrees by morning.

[Gary Laudermilch]

Last evening 3 deer came into my pasture at dusk, two mature does and a small buck. One of the does and the buck have changed their coat to winter grey. The third was still summer red. The times, they are a changing.

Friday night we are supposed to get down into the 40's. Sounds like Saturday morning is set for a dog run for sure.

[Dean Romig]

One of the sure signs of the impending shooting seasons are my almost complete impatience with the lingering summer.
Such things as daydreaming of autumn hunts of past seasons and rummaging through my upland books that I haven’t read or at least re-read in the last couple of years... and then I’ll find a good one and start reading. Well into the third or fourth chapter I realize I’m tormenting myself but I can’t put the book down.

Here’s one I’m torturing myself with right now... I’m at the lake and should be fishing but I just can’t help myself....


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[Mills]

That is a good book, as is most everything put out by Countrysport Press

[Dean Romig]

I'll be looking for another to read soon - one that I'm sure I've already read at least once before.

The following, among several others I have, came from Bill Tapply's collection of his Dad's things.
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[Tom Flanigan]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

I'll be looking for another to read soon - one that I'm sure I've already read at least once before.

The following, among several others I have, came from Bill Tapply's collection of his Dad's things.
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Nice Dean. I saw Frank Woolners signature and it brought back memories. I read his book on grouse hunting when I was a kid. It was a great book but it disturbed my adolescent brain when he described his grouse gun. I believe it was a Winchester automatic 12 bore that he "customized" by shortening the barrel and sanding off the pistol grip. He called it his "chopper". At the time, I couldn't imagine shooting grouse with anything but a Parker or other fine double. I still can't. My favorite book by far as a kid was Ted Janes "A Boy and His Gun. I read it over and over and I still have it.

[stumpstalker]

I never met Frank Woolner, but I have the notion that he had an affinity for the outré, and incorporated some pseudo-military effects from his very real-World War II combat experiences into his outdoor interests for the impression it would make.

Heck, doesn’t every writer have to have some sort of an ego?

Here is a photo in which he sports a Mohawk hair-style, when writing on behalf of the Third Armored Division. Later he was known for painting his Model A beach buggies in an unorthodox dazzle of grey, green, yellow and purple camo pattern. And, as said, there was his customized, three-shot – “crude but effective”, in Hollywood parlance, autoloader for his upland bird hunting.

So, not by chance would he refer to upland guns in his books as “artillery”.

He wrote earnestly and instructively about hunting and fishing, but must have had a sense of humor, too.

[Mills]

Call of the Quail and Bare November Days are good, if you like books on upland hunting.

I have been reading Happy Hunting Ground by A. S. Salley, Jr., which is mostly about deer hunting in SC after the Civil War.

[Dean Romig]

I have "Bare November Days" and have enjoyed it thoroughly.

"If you like books on upland hunting"..... seriously? Are there any other kinds of books?





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