Anyone read Archibald Rutledge's Bird Dog Days Wing shooting ways?

[Frank Childrey]

Any of Rutledge's works are well worth having. Bird Dog Days has general chapters on dogs in general, grouse hunting in Pennsylvania with and without dogs, 4 chapters on birds (wild quail for those of you who are not from the South), a chapter on ringnecks, and two chapters on sportsmanship. I found my copy on Amazon; it was used (though it looks like it just came off of the shelf at Barnes & Noble). There is some issue with the book's publication hence the high price. PS: John P. Bailey was from Coffeeville, MS.

[Frank Childrey]

Bird Dog Days, it should be noted, has a lengthy introduction by Jim Casada, books editor for Sports Classics magazine

[Frank Childrey]

uh . . . make that Sporting Classics magazine

[Mills]

Jim Casada is probably the foremost authority on Rutledge and he is working on a biography.

His early poetry is very good as well.

[King Cobb]

Decided to wait on this book for now, but did pick up a 1st edition of Home by the River.

[Mills]

Originally Posted by Bill Holcombe

did pick up a 1st edition of Home by the River.

That is the best book to start on for Rutledge

[King Cobb]

Not quite starting, already read and loved Home and the Southern Heartland or whatever it is called. Reading Buckingham at the moment, and while they write a lot of the same topics, they do present them completely differently. Rutledge seems more on the hunt and a storyteller, Buckingham is more of a 1st hand account style and more about the actual people then the hunts themselves.

Enjoying both immensely, just find the differences between them surprising/entertaining. As a boy who was brought up on Uncle Remus, I am quite in my element.