Only 3 Books

[MiG25]

On a variation of the ever popular "Only 3 guns" topic. You can only have 3 hunting books.

Mine would be:
"Big Game Animals of North America" - O'Connor
"Great Arc of the Wild Sheep" - Clarke
"Heart of the Hunter" - Marshall

 

[Eagleye]

Game Loads and Practical Ballistics for the American Hunter - Bob Hagel
Big Game Animals of North America - Jack O'Connor
Death in the Long Grass - Peter Hathaway Capstick.

I have quite a collection of Capstick's writing, and while I realize he
was a bit of a B'S'er He writes great prose. EE.

 

[madtrapper143]

Shots at Whitetails Lawrence KOLLER.
Grouse Feathers Burton SPILLER.
Hunting Big Game In North America Jack O'Connor.

Darryl

 

[the spank]

What are these book things you speak of?

 

[tharkhold]

What are these book things you speak of?

I heard of these "books".

I think they are like a kindle, only one available title, and printed on some kind of cellulose based fabric (paper), that make up 'pages'. A book is a bunch of these 'pages' bound together between slightly thicker cellulose covers.

I even heard rumors that these don't need any electricity or the internet to work... but we all know that's not possible.

 

[The Outsider]

 

[9.3mauser]

Karamojo Safari, WDM Bell
African Hunter, James Mellon
Maneaters of India, Jim Corbett ( this is an omnibus compiling three of his books, so I'm cheating a little here)

 

[Snider shooter]

Lyman RCBS and Lee catalogs. Try doing without them.

 

[MiG25]

Lyman RCBS and Lee catalogs. Try doing without them.

You get a mulligan because those aren't hunting books.

 

[shakeyjake]

Months of the sun: 40 years of elephant hunting in the Zambezi valley
Blood on the Leaves.....about hunting accidents
And the other ones are about hunting 2 legged species

 

[mrgoat]

Just three of the memorable ones of the many gun and hunting related books I have, The Book of the Rifle by Jim Carmichael is a very under rated book.

Jim Carmichaels "Book of the Rifle"

Hell I Was There by Elmer Keith

Shotguns by Jack O'Connor

I always enjoy books by Elmer Keith and Jack O'Connor, they were not the best of buddies and there views differ which makes for an interesting comparative read.

 

[Longwalker]

A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leupold
Man Eaters of Kumaon - Jim Corbett
Mostly Tailfeathers - Gene Hill

 

[mrgoat]

A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leupold
Man Eaters of Kumaon - Jim Corbett
Mostly Tailfeathers - Gene Hill

Gene Hill now there is a name I haven't heard in many years. He used to write inside back cover for Guns and Ammo if memory serves.

 

[Ardent]

“The Man Eaters of Tsavo” - Patterson
“Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter” -Bell
“Man-Eaters of Kumaon” -Corbett

 

[Johnn Peterson]

As a long time Elmer Keith fan and having met the man , as/my avatar, my three would be;
- Sixguns by Keith
- Elmer Keiths Big Game Hunting
- Shotguns by Keith

 

[sharp shooter]

Grizzlies Don’t Come Easy.

 

[powdermaker]

Ardent already listed my three favorites so I'll have to pick three more......
Dangerous River - R.M. Patterson
Buffalo days and Nights- Peter Erasmus
Northern Trader - H.S.M. Kemp

 

[Rob]

Three favorites I didn't see listed yet:

The Deer Hunter's Guide by Francis Sell, 1964
Aagaard's Africa by Finn Aagaard, 1991
New Guinea Crocodile Poacher by Gunther Bahnemann, 1964

 

[sherlockbonez]

Last horizon - capstick
My health is better in november - babcock
Green hills of africa - hemingway

 

[sherlockbonez]

“The Man Eaters of Tsavo” - Patterson
“Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter” -Bell
“Man-Eaters of Kumaon” -Corbett

Man eater of tsavo is free on the nitro express forum for those interested. I dowloaded ot and read it at moose one year.