Hunting Books that I'd Highly Recommend - Please add to the list

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These are for the most part books compiled of short hunting stories. Exciting with great detail. Each of these books I could not put down, you feel like you are right there in the hunt.

Most of these books I have ordered out of the States as some are either hard to find in Canada or are overpriced.

Bowhunting:

- I Remember Papa Bear (by #### Lattimer)
- Hunt with Fred Bear (by #### Lattimer)
- Blood Trails II (by Ted Nugent)

Rifle Hunting:

- The Lost Classics of Jack O'Connor (Edited by Jim Casada)
- Classic O'Connor (Edited by Jim Casada)

Hunting with Hounds:

- Backtracking (by I.T. Taylor)
- Wilderness Patchwork (by Willet Randall)
- Rabbit Hunting "Secrets of a Master Cottontail Hunter" (by Dave Fisher)
- I'd Rather be Rabbit Hunting (by Dave Fisher)

Each of these books I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

What would you recommend?...please let me know, I'd like to read them.
 
Tales of a Bear Hunter by Dalton Carr
Death in the Long Grass, Death in Silent Places and anything else by the late Peter Capstick
Meditations on Hunting by Jose Ortega
Hunting in North America, and Arctic Hunter by the Helmericks
A Sporting Chance by Mannix (hunting by methods other than a firearm)
Survival, 23 True Sportsman Tales by Ben East
Alaskan Bear Tales by Larry Kanuit
Sixguns By Elmer Keith

Edit: Thanks back to you, those titles by Dave Fisher look interesting.

Cheers!
 
horn of the hunter, old man and the boy by robert raurk
great rams and ram hunter by robert anderson
one rifle one man one land by jy jones
gamemasters of the world chris klineburger

i like old outfitter stories too.
wild and free by frank cooke, scoop lake area
lucky again by bob kjos, stone mountain
time less trails of the yukon and yukon trophy trails by deloris cline brown, bonnet plume area
land of the red goat by bob henderson, upper stikine area
the desert king and i by randy babala

most of these are hard to find but 10min searching on line and you can find them
 
Alaska's Wolf Man by Jim Rearden
Trails of a Wilderness Wanderer and Grizzly Country by Andy Russell
Three Against the Wilderness by Eric Collier(not hunting but living and carving out an Eden in the bush)
X2 Death in the Long Grass by Peter Capstick

kastles
 
Dangerous River by R. Patterson. Its a great tale about hunting and trapping the Nahanni area of the NWT. Sheep ,moose caribou and bear as well as making a stew out of wolverine when pickings were slim.Great book on wilderness trapping, hunting and canoeing. Best outdoor book I have read and I have read a few. "Let me get him and I will be willing to grow cabbages for the rest of my life" His thoughts as he sees a trophy Dall sheep.

Dan
 
- Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail by Theodore Roosevelt
- Outdoor Pastimes of the American Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt
- A Sand River Almanac by Aldo Leopold
-The Old Duck Hunter's Trlogy by Gordon MacQuarrie (my personal fave)
- Any of the Gene Hill Collections of short stories are great, as well as Nash Buckingham
- For dangerous game stuff you can't beat Jim Corbett or Capstick

There's a ptetty good collection of great hunting short stories titled "The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told" edited by Lamar Underwood,well worth the read.
 
samdunc said:
Dangerous River by R. Patterson. Its a great tale about hunting and trapping the Nahanni area of the NWT. Sheep ,moose caribou and bear as well as making a stew out of wolverine when pickings were slim.Great book on wilderness trapping, hunting and canoeing. Best outdoor book I have read and I have read a few. "Let me get him and I will be willing to grow cabbages for the rest of my life" His thoughts as he sees a trophy Dall sheep.

Dan
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just ordered this online, thanks for the heads up
 
R. M. (Raymond) Patterson, Dagerous River, being one of his books, was an author who travelled, mostly in his canoe, far and wide to get stories to write about.
Another of his books is Finlay's River. Several of my friends, who were in that remote area knew Patterson quite well, from associating with him as he was gathering material for his book.
As a matter of fact, I have a picture of R. M. Patterson's fifteen year old son in my book, Outposts and Bushplanes, taken at a trading post on the Finlay River.
Hey, how about my book being listed here! It's not really about hunting either, but I write of the great wolf poisoning program in BC in the 1950s. This is the only written account of this major event that I know of, and it is factual, because I participated in it.
I also tell of flying a biologist on the first official moose counting ever done in BC.
In my case I didn't look for something to write about, instead, many years later, I thought of all the interesting people, times and places I knew. The era of the old time trappers and prospectors that I knew is long gone and historians didn't even record it's passing.
Thus, I wrote draft chapters, then sent them to some friends who knew of everything I wrote of, for cofirming and consulting with, put everything together and came up with a published book.
Here is the publishers link that goes directly to my book.
http://www.hancockhouse.com/products/outbus.htm,
Cheers,
Bruce
 
Some of my favourites are already up so I'll add a few others.
The Hunting Imperitive by Richard Harland
African Epic by Richard Harland
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
Another good one although not entirely about hunting is by Chris Kind called "She's Downhill and In the Shade"
 
Rickyy101 said:
anyone know of any on black powder hunting during the 1800's? or modern.. just no inlines :p
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A little bit covered in Firefox #5. Rural living in Appalachian mountains. Written by the 1970s generation that wanted to record the practical living ways of thier great grandparents. There's alot of how-to info and blacksmithing, running dogs with a few good cougar & black bear hunting stories.
This is probably not exactly what you want.

Maybe research the Lewis & Clark Expedition?
 
Rickyy101 said:
anyone know of any on black powder hunting during the 1800's? or modern.. just no inlines :p
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Don't know specific books but I'd take a look at stuff by Bill Miller. I've read a bit of his stuff and he lives here in BC.

Another good read that's not really hunting but interesting because he rides through some of the best hunting country on earth is Cordillera by Stan Walchuk.
 
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