Books

[C.O.B.]

I've read a lot of O'Connor and we have hunted sheep together from Alaska to Mexico. In addition Keith is well represented. It's interesting to not the differences between the two. Jack liked lighter faster bullets and Elmer the bigger the better. Seems I remember a Keith quote along the lines that a 375 made for a good prairie dog rifle. I've shot deer with both the 270 and a 375 both worked well.

I much prefer the look and feel of a book, no tablets :nono

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

I much prefer the look and feel of a book, no tablets :nono

Books, especially first editions, much like our old Parkers and other guns, have a certain... 'soul' I guess. I wouldn't waste my time reading a great old book on an electronic device.... That's just me I guess.






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[C.O.B.]

I have enough trouble navigating this computer I can't see myself with a Kindel It would end up at the rifle range where I could test O'Connor VS Keith with a 270 and a 500 express rifle

[bob weeman]

I greatly enjoy Gordon McQuarrie for his story telling that takes you there with him and the president. Ted Trueblood for his story telling and the practicality he works into them. Francis Sell for his knowledge that was earned through experience and his old time story telling. Gene Hill for the way he expresses what we do so well. Burt Spiller for his ability to take me grouse hunting when I cannot go myself.Townsend Whelen because I love those old Springfield custom rifles.

[gman]

A sad note for those who love to read by the fire: we lost a true Northeast Kingdom treasure in the passing of the author Howard Mosher a few weeks back. I had fished and hunted a bit with Howard and slapped my knees a hundred times in outrageous laughter with him. One of his last wishes was to finish a final book and this he succeeded in accomplishing. In saying goodby I know that the energy is never lost and this final work should be one great read.

[Dean Romig]

Ok, very sorry for the loss of a true NEKer.

How can I get a copy of that book?

[Dean Romig]

Thanks Tim - That's a sweetheart of a gun. I took a fair number of grouse and woodcock with it and that Mod barrel can really reach out there.
One of my greatest memories with it was a big cock grouse that flashed about twenty-five yards to my right from beneath some scrub apple trees flying up along an old barb wire fence toward another group of older apple trees. When he finally broke into view he was more than 35 yards away and about 4 feet off the ground going like a rocket. All in one motion I mounted that gun, put my finger on the rear trigger, swung past him, and I must have pressed the trigger because he disappeared from my view. I found him stone dead just beyond where I last saw him... a full 44 long paces from where I was standing when I shot.





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[C.O.B.]

The one writer that I just never could warm up to was Nash Buckingham. I just find him hard to read. Spiller, Sheldon, Ford, Evans I have enjoyed immensely but not Nash.

[Dean Romig]

Nash sure had the ability to put 'old-time Southern' dialect and colloquialism to the pen - he was a master of that style of story telling.




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[C.O.B.]

Yes he was but I was never able to master reading it