Favorite outdoor authors

Coldshooter · Feb 7, 2016

I've been sorting and downsizing and while doing so I found a box of books of my favorite outdoor writers. A Corey Ford collection which collects the "Minutes of the Lower Fourty". Mostly Tailfeathers by Gene Hill, Bayou Bill's Best Stories by Bill Scifres, A collection "That Reminds me of the One...", Oldtime Bass Fishing Tales by Byron Dalrymple. Perhaps my favorite is "the Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark which contains one one of the best lines about going outdoors "The old man used to say the best part of hunting and fishing was the thinking about going and the talking about it after you got back. You just have to have the actual middle as a basis of conversation and to put some meat in the pot. Everybody should be allowed to brag some about what he did good that day and to cover up shameless on what he did wrong." They were better writers than most today and make me realize the value of a comfortable chair, leisure time and good bourbon.

Mike SC Hunter · Feb 7, 2016

Mine are Archibald Rutledge, Nash Buckinghan & Havila Babcock.

walkinghorse · Feb 7, 2016

Concur on Robert Ruark, The Old Man And The Boy, adding The Old Man's Boy Grows Older. Cory Ford had great writing also as noted. Havilah Babcock is another great outdoor writer of the past. To me similar in that they were writing about people and the experience, both good and bad, and humor was there as well as courtesy, and enjoying the experience, rather than a count!

Snowninja · Feb 7, 2016

Capstick is one of my favorites, may be a bit embellished every once in a while, but nonetheless a good read. Patrick F. McManus if you're looking for a laugh.

Coldshooter · Feb 7, 2016

walkinghorse said:
Concur on Robert Ruark, The Old Man And The Boy, adding The Old Man's Boy Grows Older. Cory Ford had great writing also as noted. Havilah Babcock is another great outdoor writer of the past. To me similar in that they were writing about people and the experience, both good and bad, and humor was there as well as courtesy, and enjoying the experience, rather than a count!

The experiance is key plus many of the great writers were narrators and did not use run on sentances to get in more I me mine uses

Jinglebob · Feb 7, 2016

One of my favorite outdoors writers was Bob Hood. He wrote about hunting and fishing for over 40 years. Bob was the outdoors writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Hunting Editor for Texas Fish and Game Magazine; a contributing writer for Texas Sportsman, Texas Sporting Journal, Lone star Outdoor News and others.

Bob was born June 28, 1944 in Fort Worth and passed away on January 9, 2014 in his home.

One of his stories was about hunting javelina in the Del Rio area. His hounds pushed a wounded javelina into a rocky hole. Bob did not want a wounded animal to be wasted and die underground. Armed with a .22 pistol, he crawled in and shot the javelina. He came out with ringing ears and the javelina. His story was substantiated by John Thompson who worked with Bob at the Star-Telegram and was part of that hunt.

OLDSTER · Feb 7, 2016

Jack O'Connor

Salty RI · Feb 7, 2016

Gene Hill was my favorite, years ago he wrote Parting Shot on the last page of Guns & Ammo, then he went to I think Field and Stream or outdoor life, I have his books and I made copies of his short stories.

dusty3030 · Feb 7, 2016

Bill Heavey. His wit is so entertaining because those things or facimiles of them have and will happen. I love a good laugh.

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