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The name is Brassnuts. Or at least that's what some of his supposed friends called him in high school.

Nah, John, I'm pretty sure it's Bieber.

That's Brassnuts Bieber to you, fella....

That's the guy!!!

Well, we finally got a rise out of him. Good thing; I was running out of B names.

Has anyone read "Months of the Sun" by Ian Nyschens? I saw it mentioned on Craig Boddington's FB page and was just wondering if it's something to add to the list.

By the way, I'm really enjoying Captick's "The Last Ivory Hunter." Good stuff! Now if I can only figure out how to get paid for reading old hunting books....

yeah and you prolly saw my post under his saying i aint been able to afford it....its a decent book but ive been lucky to find Heath's book for 20 cents on the dollar of usual asking price....lowest ive seen Nyschen's book is $350......its a decent book and read it if you get the chance, someone lent me a copy to read, but i didnt find it outstanding.....a good solid book on more modern elephant hunting though...

"The Big Game Animals of North America", by Jack O'Conner. The usual great JOC stories, large format full-page color plates and nice B&W drawings. Also scientific info on the critters.

Some will quibble about his general dismissal of the Bison as a big game animal, but given the situation when the book was written, I think we can give him a pass.

Updated List (9/30/14)

Anyway, if we were going to put together a library of rifle/hunting/shooting books, classic and modern, what would be included? Here's what we have so far:

Finn and Berit Aagaard:
"Aagaard's African Adventures"

Tony de Almeida:
"Jaguar Hunting on the Mato Grosso and Bolivia"

Russell Annabel:
Corpus

Charles Askins:
"Unrepentant Sinner"

John Barsness:
"The Life of the Hunt"
"Obsessions of a Rifle Loony"
"Born to Hunt"

William Beech:
"Shadow of Denali"

WDM Bell:
"Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter"
"Bell of Africa"
"Karamojo Safari"

Craig Boddington:
"African Hunter II"
"Safari Rifles II"
"Elephant!: The Renaissance of Hunting the African Elephant"
"Buffalo!"
The "Ten Years" Series
"The Perfect Shot - North America"
"American Hunting Rifles"
"African Experience"
"Shots at Big Game"
"Deer Hunting Coast to Coast" (w/Bob Robb)
"Campfires and Game Trails"
"The Hunters Handbook"

Capt. John Brandt:
"Asian Hunter"
"Hunters of Man"

John Burger:
"Horned Death"

Jim Carmichael:
"Book of the Rifle"
"The Modern Rifle"

Joe Cavanaugh
"The Jungle Hunter"

Roy Andrews Chapman:
"Across Mongolian Plains"

Steve Christenson:
"From the Congo Basin to the Highlands of Ethiopia"

J Corbett:
"Entire omnibus collection"

Elgin Gates:
"Trophy Hunter in Africa"
"Trophy Hunter in Asia"

Bob Hagel:
"Hunting North American Big Game"
"Guns, Loads & Hunting Tips"

Ernest Hemingway:
"Green Plains of Africa"

Brian Herne:
"White Hunters"

JA Hunter:
"Hunter"
"White Hunter"
"Hunter's Tracks"
"Tales of the African Frontier"

Rashid Jamsheed:
"Memories of a Sheep Hunter"

John Jobson:
"The Best of John Jobson"

Elmer Keith:
"Hell, I was There!"
"Rifles for Big Game"
"Safari"
"Rifles for Large Game"
"Big Game Rifles and Cartridges"

John Kingsley-Heath:
"Hunting the Dangerous Game of Africa"

Larry Koller:
"Shots at Whitetails"

Denis D. Lyell:
"African Adventures: Letters from Famous Big-Game Hunters"

Edison Marshall:
"Heart of the Hunter"
"Shikar and Safari"

George Mattis:
"Whitetail - Fundamentals and Fine Points for the Hunter"

James Mellon:
"African Hunter"

Reinald von Meurers:
"Buffalo, Elephant and Bongo"

Sancha de Montebel:
"Big Game Hunting"

Arthur Newmann:
"Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa"

Jack O'Connor:
"The Hunting Rifle"
"Sheep and Sheep Hunting"
"The Best of Jack O'Connor"
"The Last Book"
"The Art of Hunting Big Game in North America"
"The Complete Book of Rifles and Shotguns"
"The Rifle Book"
"The Big Game Rifle"
"Big Game Animals of North America"
"Game in the Desert Revisited"
"Horse and Buggy West"

Etienne Oggeri:
"I Killed for a Living"

Warren Page:
"One Man's Wilderness"
"The Accurate Rifle"

Alfred Pease:
"Book of the Lion"

Theodore Roosevelt:
"African Game Trails"

Robert Ruark:
"Use Enough Gun"
"Horn of the Hunter"
"The Old Man and the Boy"

Tony Sanchez-Arino
"The Last of the Few"
"Elephants, Ivory and Hunters"

Hosea Sarber:
"Forty Years in Alaska"

Francis E. Sell:
"The Deer Hunter's Guide"

Frederick Courtney Selous:
"A hunters Wandering in Africa"

Philip Sharpe:
"The Rifle in America"

Charles Sheldon:
"Wilderness of Denali"

Col. Harry Snyder:
"Book of Big Game Hunting"

James Sutherland:
"The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter"

John 'Pondoro' Taylor:
"Big Game and Big Game Rifles"
"African Rifles and Cartridges"
"Rifles for African Big Game"

SR Truesdell:
"The Rifle: Its Development for Big-Game Hunting"

Terry Weiland:
"Dangerous Game Rifles"

Townsend Whelen:
"The Hunting Rifle"
"The Ultimate in Rifle Precision"
"On Your Own in the Wilderness"
"Best of Townsend Whelen"

Stewart Edward White:

Jay Williams:
"Alaska Adventures"

Ken Wilson:
"Sport Hunting on Six Continents"

G.O. Young:
"Alaska-Yukon Trophies Won and Lost"

Got it, thanks.

Safari Press has Nyschens' book listed as backorder - $85. We'll see what it is when (if) it comes back in stock.

thats his new book that just came out months ago, hardcover copies of 'Months of the Sun' have not been available through Safari Press in a long time, on the secondary market $600 isnt an unusual asking price and ive seen asking prices approaching $1000......

dont get me wrong its a good book but it reminds me of Terry Wieland's 'Spiral Horn Dreams' which is a good book but not at anywhere near what people ask for it at $300....and Nyschens' book is much better than Wieland's......rarity is whats driving the price not the quality of the story...

You're right about the price - not $85. But look just below the new book and you'll see "Months of the Sun" listed hardcopy, backorder, $60. It's supposed to be re-released Fall 2015. Sounds like first edition prices you're seeing on the secondary market...and those are pretty steep!

its been on backorder for over 10 years IIRC nice to know they are being reprinted but at the moment first edition are the only copies out there though i think due to his second book coming out for awhile they released 'Months of the Sun' as an e-book but not 100% sure on that....

I might add a relatively little known book by Jack O'connor titled "Game in the Desert Revisited". It's actually my favorite JO'C book. Anecdotal in nature, and descriptive of hunting the animals of his youth in the desert southwest.

Got it and added. Thanks!

And we might as well add JO'C's "Horse and Buggy West," a superb work on the feel of Arizona in the early part of the last century, and some good stories of hunting there in a time long gone.

Best book of the 1950s for North American Big Game hunting is
Snyder's Book of Big Game hunting by Col. Harry Snyder. I especially like his stories on Goat Hunting.

Townshend Whelen's Big Game Hunting
On Your Own in the Wilderness
Best of Townshend Whelen
need to be on every hunters bookshelf

Why limit it just to riflemen.
Fred Bear's Field Book
Glen St. Charles Bows on the Little Delta River
1000 campfires by Jay Massey
Bowhunting Alaska's Rivers by Jay Massey

Wilderness of Denali by Charles Sheldon
To Far Western Alaska after Big Game by T.R. Hubback
Alaska Hunting by Roy Chandler
Trail of the Eagle by Bud Conkle


Across Mongolian Plains by Roy Andrews Chapman
Mongolian Hunter by Patrick Stewart(not actor)
After Wild Sheep in the Altai and Mongolia by Count Elim Demidoff
Still no John Taylor.
Rifles for African Big Game

No GO Young Alaska-Yukon Trophies Won and Lost
No Alaska Adventures by Jay Williams
No Forty Years in Alaska by Hosea Sarber
No Shadow of Denali by William Beech

Forgive me, but what's the "no" for? You think they should be included or not?

I think I have everything up to date. One item to note: I'm not cross-checking to make sure titles are accurate, so y'all might want to make sure they're accurate when you post them.

Also, there's a forum for bow hunting. That would be the perfect place to add archery related books. This thread is "Rifle" library. Someone else could certainly add one for shotguns as well.