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Not sure if this has come here yet. "The Rifle in America" by Philip B. Sharpe 1938. I have 1995 reprint by NRA for The firearms Classic Library so pages I mention will be for that edition. Pages 315 to 340 cover Savage thru 1938. Pretty good info although some is quoted from catalogs. Covers all Savage rifles in addition to 1895 - 99s. He has personal conversations (quoted) with Newton about his intentions for the .250 Savage cartridge (100 grain bullets) and Savage's different direction (3000 fps with 87 grain). A good read from almost 40 years before Murray's book.

Presently reading ‘Big Bucks The Benoit Way’

"Blood Meridian" Cormac McCarthy. Then back to more Robert MacFarlane: mountain, landscape and nature writing.

Reading "Shots at Whitetails" by Larry Koller. Mr. Koller was a Savage 99 fan. Will follow that up with "Grouse and Grouse Hunting" by Frank Woolner. I have read both several times but they still are enjoyable reads.

Darryl

Madtrapper,

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Don't forget Burton Spiller.

Hunting Rutting Whitetails and Come November. Both by Gene Wensel.


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Steve

Legendary Deer Camps.

Bruce, I'm going to have to watch for that one!

I've read and re-read Sharpe's books so many times I've forgotten how many. Excellent reference work for many subjects. Every gun nut should have a copy "The Rifle in America" in his library, as well as his "Complete Guide to Handloading".

One of Dad's buddies was a neighbor of Sharpe's and gave me a few items from his estate sale including a couple sealed boxes of pre-war Ball M1 and Ball M2 ammo. I ought to just take them out and shoot them. Not! Supposedly I met Sharpe during a trip to see Mr. Hensdill but I was pretty small and don't remember it.

Not reading any gun books at the moment, but just finished James Lee Burke's latest Dave Robicheaux novel. Can't recommend it enough. Currently in the middle of "A Gentleman in Moscow", Amor Towles, and am enjoying it very much.

I have precious few books. All about reloading, poems by Robert Frost, or blacktail deer! Anything else I can dredge up on the net.

My Greatest Day in Baseball, by John P. Carmichael and others, 1945. So, many of the stories are from the dead ball era. I'm trying to find one of my favorite tales from that era. The coach was on the bench. The opponents game winning runner was on third. There was a pop fly down the third base line, and the coach saw the third baseman wasn't going to make the catch. This was in the day of player coaches. So, he called himself in for the third baseman, made the catch, and won the game. After that they changed the rules that substitutions couldn't be made during play. This is a made for kids book and a quick read. After that I plan to start on my Sahib ten volume set of Kipling. Love his tales of the Soldiers Three. The Light That Failed is a favorite also, I might start with that one.

I'm reading the Book of Proverbs, and circling all the verses about wise men keeping their mouths shut. This is survival 101 right now, to keep the peace at home!

Don't forget the verse about it being better to sleep on the corner of the roof than share a house with a disagreeable wife.

How bad does it have to be for it to be better to sleep on the corner of the roof?

BOWHUNTING by Monty Browning. Good stories and great photography about traditional bowhunting all over the globe. It should appeal to a lot of guys here.

I get into more trouble by not saying anything. My wife asked why I didn't respond to something? I gave her Plato's quote that is in LBK's signature

Taps Tips by H G Tapply

Facing down fear by John Sharp and the Best Of Jack Oconner!

"The Tigers Revenge" by Clawd Balz



Not really.... Gun Digest 35th Anniversary 1981, The Savage Pocket Automatic Pistol Model 1907, by Donald M. Simmons. Again!...

I have this framed and on the wall, Telling how the 22HP is a Tiger rifle!