Your Favorite Hunting Book?

An honourable mention, George Rushby's "No More The Tusker" deserves to be a lot better known than it is. An ex poacher/ivory hunter turned game ranger, the book is very well written with typical British understatement.
 
9.3mauser said:
An honourable mention, George Rushby's "No More The Tusker" deserves to be a lot better known than it is. An ex poacher/ivory hunter turned game ranger, the book is very well written with typical British understatement.
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I've never even heard of it! Gotta look this one up...:)
 
Dangerous River: Adventure on the Nahanni by R. M. Patterson. Not necessarily a hunting book but he takes a bunch of game during his trips and it is probably my favourite book.
 
"Game Bird Hunting in the West" by Mike Cramond is my favourite of the few I've read, I liked that he is a Canadian hunter, and he had some good stories with simple methodology for hunting all the species covered, fairly easy reading. I'd like to get into reading hunting books more, so I hope to trawl some used bookstores and hopefully gun shows for some good stuff down the line.
 
I really enjoyed reading stuff by Mark Parman... Good read if you like feathers and dogs ..


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SurplusNut15 said:
"Game Bird Hunting in the West" by Mike Cramond is my favourite of the few I've read, I liked that he is a Canadian hunter, and he had some good stories with simple methodology for hunting all the species covered, fairly easy reading. I'd like to get into reading hunting books more, so I hope to trawl some used bookstores and hopefully gun shows for some good stuff down the line.
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His Guide killed a charging 3 footed Grizzly with a 30-30.
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Note the sportered Ross 303. In the books he says his three hunting rifles are a Boer 7mm Mauser, a Ross 303, and a 7x61 S&H.
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babine_lake said:
Dangerous River: Adventure on the Nahanni by R. M. Patterson. Not necessarily a hunting book but he takes a bunch of game during his trips and it is probably my favourite book.
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'Finlay River' is another

iirc? one of these has a story of how the explorers manually pole and winch a barge of supplies up river for days then do the return by canoe in a couple hours, epic effort
 
boxhitch said:
'Finlay River' is another

iirc? one of these has a story of how the explorers manually pole and winch a barge of supplies up river for days then do the return by canoe in a couple hours, epic effort
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Yeah, he writes about that quite a bit. Pretty wild how tuff the old timers were back then. Now hunting influencers act like heroes for doing a seven day sheep hunt out of a helicopter.

In defence of Hemingway, I like Green Hills of Africa. He comes across as a turd at times but that is just an honest portrayal of guided hunts. Many clients are great but plenty have the attitude Hemingway displayed at times. At least he was open about his bad attitude at times. I know of several celebrity hunters who put on absolutely shameful displays for friends who were guiding them and when the youtube video comes out, sponsored by some ultra cool gear company, they make themselves look heroic and humble. No clips of pouting under a tarp when it rained and being abusive with the staff.
 
babine_lake said:
Yeah, he writes about that quite a bit. Pretty wild how tuff the old timers were back then. Now hunting influencers act like heroes for doing a seven day sheep hunt out of a helicopter.

In defence of Hemingway, I like Green Hills of Africa. He comes across as a turd at times but that is just an honest portrayal of guided hunts. Many clients are great but plenty have the attitude Hemingway displayed at times. At least he was open about his bad attitude at times. I know of several celebrity hunters who put on absolutely shameful displays for friends who were guiding them and when the youtube video comes out, sponsored by some ultra cool gear company, they make themselves look heroic and humble. No clips of pouting under a tarp when it rained and being abusive with the staff.
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Well, I certainly get that my poor opinion of him puts me in the minority; that's okay, we all have our individual tastes. I just thought it was worth mentioning that not everyone worships Papa Ernie as often seems to be the case.

And, yes, there are a lot of sportsmen who display poor sportsmanship, but that doesn't mean I want to read about it in their own words. Hell, Roosevelt wrote about behaviour that can only be referred to as Game Hog...shooting many multiples of single animal species taken on one trip or one day. But that was a different time, with different values, ethics and mores. He went on to become a shining light in the early ideas of conservation.

I'd love to have a beer with one...not so much with the other...:)
 
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