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What are your favourite hunting books.
Just looking to dig up some new reading material and looking for some recommendations. My favourite list is
1. Grizzlies and White Guys by Clayton Mack
2. Yukon Trophy Trails by Delores Cline Brown
3. Most of the stuff by Andy Russell
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02-23-2012
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Shots at whitetails by lawrence koller have read that book a hundred times. might be hard to find .
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Shots at whitetails by lawrence koller have read that book a hundred times. might be hard to find .
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I have a copy for sale. Read it a hundred times too. Lol
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Anything by Capstick, O'Connor or Ruark plus 'Heat, Thirst, and Ivory by Everett.
Bobby B.
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Anything by Sell, Page, Ruark, O'Connor, Keith , Bear or Whelan.
Charley Kroll is another Honourable mention. 
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Horseshoe In My Hip Pocket by Bob Kjos.
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Wilbur Smith has many books that take you right into the action of an african hunt. A few suggestions:
A Time To Die
A Sparrow Falls
Monsoon
These are not novels specifically about hunting but are filled with action and really hard to set down.
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Horseshoe In My Hip Pocket by Bob Kjos.
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Musta bought it at Sobeys in Sundre.  I've actually known some of the people he writes about.
Grizz
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Anything by Gene Hill
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Shots at whitetails by lawrence koller have read that book a hundred times. might be hard to find .
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x3 great book
also
Big bucks the Benoit way
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Hunter by J.A. Hunter
Unbelievable what the man did and saw in turn of the century Africa. I read this one over and over and over, and I'll read it again. If you like adventure it's for you.
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corbett
All of the above, plus Jim Corbett's classics on hunting tiger in India. Could also throw in a few of Russel Anabel's selections, and a soon-to -be classic by Ian Nyschens "months of the Sun". Oh yeah, did anyone mention Taylor's classics?
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I have really enjoyed O'Conner's stuff. The books my uncle has wrote about his hunting trips around the world are great too.
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Great Rams and Great Ram Hunters I and II. Robert Anderson.
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Just looking to dig up some new reading material and looking for some recommendations. My favourite list is
1. Grizzlies and White Guys by Clayton Mack
2. Yukon Trophy Trails by Delores Cline Brown
3. Most of the stuff by Andy Russell
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good thread topic bdub, ive been looking to find some good books to read and i never thought to ask you guys this question,thanx.
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Great Rams and Great Ram Hunters I and II. Robert Anderson.
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Great books as well.
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Musta bought it at Sobeys in Sundre. I've actually known some of the people he writes about.
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Nope. Signed and gifted to me. I know one of his nephews quite well, and he has stayed at their place when he's travelling through. The nephew worked for him in the book as well.
I know/ have known a few of the others as well.
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Horseshoe In My Hip Pocket by Bob Kjos.
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My uncle guided for Kjos his name was Bob Cruickshank theirs a pic of him in the book and a little about him. Skyline Pursuits by Jim Batten is a must read talks of hunting the clearwater, south ram, hummingbird country back in the 30's
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My uncle guided for Kjos his name was Bob Cruickshank theirs a pic of him in the book and a little about him. Skyline Pursuits by Jim Batten is a must read talks of hunting the clearwater, south ram, hummingbird country back in the 30's
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Read the book by Kjos and hunted some of the same country around Toad River that he hunted in. Would love to find a copy of Skyline Pursuits if any are out there. Maybe ebay might have one. Just got a copy of Charles Sheldons Wilderness of the Denali, just into the first couple chapters.
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Anyone on shotgunning?
I have quite a few books on shotguns, but not shotgun hunting.
There have to be a few British authors out there that can paint pictures in your mind.
Any suggestions gentlemen.
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I have to like .....
.... "Hunting Predators for Hides and Profits"
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Read amny times
The old man and the boy, robert ruark
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Love the coffee table sheep books by Robert Anderson. Great to look at the photos and some of the stories, especially just before sheep season.
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Love the coffee table sheep books by Robert Anderson. Great to look at the photos and some of the stories, especially just before sheep season.
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Just dug mine out the other day.
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There have been quite a few good books mentioned, if you want a good book on nature it is tough to beat Andy Russel. If you want a good book on hunting and shooting in Africa, look to John Taylor.
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Another enjoyable read is. Big Game Hunting in Alberta by Jack Ondrack.
Lots of info about the early times in Alberta its been over 30 yrs since I got my copy the Library might have one.
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what are your favorite
Death in the Long Grass by Capstick.
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Gene Walters
Gene Walters. Child of the wilderness. Not exactly a hunting book but a great read just the same.
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Quote:
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Anyone on shotgunning?
I have quite a few books on shotguns, but not shotgun hunting.
There have to be a few British authors out there that can paint pictures in your mind.
Any suggestions gentlemen.
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I have several good books on shotgunning, byt the likes of D. Lee Braun, Barney Hartman, Bullard, Greener, Askins Jr., etc, but the main ones I use do not cover hunting but shotgunning in general.
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I have no favourite books. I enjoy whatever Mother Nature teaches me through what I see, hear, study, read. For me there is nothing better.
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