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Best Hunting books

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What's everyones favorite hunting books? The Gordon MacQuarries (sp?) are wonderful. Sigurd Olson and Aldo Leopold have some nice shorter works amongst their writings. When I was a kid in North Iowa, I'd walk down to the library on Fall nights so I could go through the hunting books there. They had a book by Ray Holland--"Good Shot"--a book of photos and paragraphs about different hunting and fishing adventures. The bird shooting on the Canadian prairies really got me. Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa is nice. Fred Bear's Field Notes. Nash Buckingham's duck books should'nt be missed.

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Peter Capstick's books on African safaris. Death In The Tall Grass, Death In The Dark Continent, Death In Silent Places, Death in a Lonely Land, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, The African Adventurers: A Return to the Silent Places, Peter Capstick's Africa: A Return To The Long Grass.

All oustanding accounts of early African safaris. Great reading!

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Teddy Rosevelt's books on hunting are a good read but it is not an easy read. I found a Zane Grey collection of his hunting and fishing stories and i loved it. If I had or knew of a kid in the mid teens, I would buy that for them for xmas, Grey's writing is very descriptive and paints a great picture......

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"Hunting Big Woods Bucks" by Hal Blood is a good primer for still hunting and stalking whitetails. "The Tracker" is another good, short book thats perfect for stand reading. I believe the author's name is Tom Brown Jr.

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Legendary Whitetails Volumes I and II by Richard Idol and other contributing authors. Each volume is 40 chapters of photos and stories of the greatest whitetails ever taken. Bucks like the Hole-in-the-Horn, Jordan, Breen, Hanson, Damery, and others. I start reading 2 chapters a night 40 days before the firearm season, I finish the second book the night before opener. Been doing it for several years, my wife thinks I'm crazy. smile

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