Seeking recommendation: best book about the hunting life?
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Oneholewonder
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+1 To Everything Capstick has ever written
+1 Teddy Roosevelt Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & Wilderness Hunter
+1 Everything Nash Buckingham
Some of my recommendations from my library include:
1. Green Hills of Africa - Ernest Hemingway's outstanding stories of his African hunts with the Massai Warriors.
2. Hunter - by JA Hunter. A fantastically compelling auto biography of JA Hunter the son of an English farmer that day dreamed of hunting and left his father's farm and travelled to Africa where he lived with his wife eventually becoming one of the most famous great white hunters of all time.
3. Through the Brazillian Wilderness - Teddy Roosevelt's account of the hunting expedition from which he barely survived.
4. Drummer in the Woods - Burton Spiller's accounts of his lifetime of grouse hunting in New England.
5. Abe and Me - Jack Murphy's touching account of a bird hunter and his family and their very special black lab Abe.
6. Pheasant Hunters Harvest - Steve Grooms' poetic account of hunting wild long tails in Iowa with his favorite springer.
7. Timberdoodle - Frank Woolner's account of his life hunting upland birds in New England with his buddies and bird dogs.
Good luck with your library. So many great books to read and so little time!
+1 Teddy Roosevelt Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & Wilderness Hunter
+1 Everything Nash Buckingham
Some of my recommendations from my library include:
1. Green Hills of Africa - Ernest Hemingway's outstanding stories of his African hunts with the Massai Warriors.
2. Hunter - by JA Hunter. A fantastically compelling auto biography of JA Hunter the son of an English farmer that day dreamed of hunting and left his father's farm and travelled to Africa where he lived with his wife eventually becoming one of the most famous great white hunters of all time.
3. Through the Brazillian Wilderness - Teddy Roosevelt's account of the hunting expedition from which he barely survived.
4. Drummer in the Woods - Burton Spiller's accounts of his lifetime of grouse hunting in New England.
5. Abe and Me - Jack Murphy's touching account of a bird hunter and his family and their very special black lab Abe.
6. Pheasant Hunters Harvest - Steve Grooms' poetic account of hunting wild long tails in Iowa with his favorite springer.
7. Timberdoodle - Frank Woolner's account of his life hunting upland birds in New England with his buddies and bird dogs.
Good luck with your library. So many great books to read and so little time!
bufordtjustice
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Maybe some of you haven't read anything by or about Howard Hill. He was the greatest archer ever and has even went so far as to kill a few elephants. I have his book "Hunting the Hard Way" and the biography "Howard Hill, the man and the legend". This guy was completely out of control. He financed a movie himself of his escapades in Africa killing everything so some of his accomplishments are on video for disbelievers.
He has a million great stories but may be best known for his stunt work in movies. He is the guy that split the arrow for the old Errol Flynn "Robin Hood" movie.
A random sampling of wild things he did...other than kill cape buffalo and elephant with a long bow...includes killing an elk at 185 yards and killing a python that was attacking his friend. On the set of some movie he supposedly shot an arrow at the end of a telephone pole and hit it. By end, I mean the part that is up in the air. He apparently shot an air into the air and it came down right on the top.
There are also old exhibition films of him that are shown from time to time and he was the best there ever was or probably will be.
He has a million great stories but may be best known for his stunt work in movies. He is the guy that split the arrow for the old Errol Flynn "Robin Hood" movie.
A random sampling of wild things he did...other than kill cape buffalo and elephant with a long bow...includes killing an elk at 185 yards and killing a python that was attacking his friend. On the set of some movie he supposedly shot an arrow at the end of a telephone pole and hit it. By end, I mean the part that is up in the air. He apparently shot an air into the air and it came down right on the top.
There are also old exhibition films of him that are shown from time to time and he was the best there ever was or probably will be.
Oneholewonder
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+1 on Howard Hill books and videos.
I've seen video of Howard Hill shooting a mallard out of the air with his longbow or recurve at a distance of about 30 yards
He shot all manner of man made and natural ariels in addition to everything you mentioned. There's not much he didn't shoot with a bow and most of the time it was moving.
I saw video of him shooting aspirins from about 10 yards that were thrown in the air by his assistant and then about twenty years ago I was at a bowyers festival and one of his younger proteges that was still alive put on a trick shooting demonstration that was awesome including shooting the aspirins.
I switched from a compound to a Fred Bear recurve after reading Fred Bear's biography and watching video of Howard Hill shooting traditional bows and cedar arrows.
I've seen video of Howard Hill shooting a mallard out of the air with his longbow or recurve at a distance of about 30 yards
He shot all manner of man made and natural ariels in addition to everything you mentioned. There's not much he didn't shoot with a bow and most of the time it was moving.
I saw video of him shooting aspirins from about 10 yards that were thrown in the air by his assistant and then about twenty years ago I was at a bowyers festival and one of his younger proteges that was still alive put on a trick shooting demonstration that was awesome including shooting the aspirins.
I switched from a compound to a Fred Bear recurve after reading Fred Bear's biography and watching video of Howard Hill shooting traditional bows and cedar arrows.