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Roger and Eileen are pretty bad too! We haven't seen him for a couple of years, and that's not fun. Might have to change that....
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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I'm going to tell Karen that Roger is stringing another woman along, too, and that it is her friend Eileen. She will be shocked!
We haven't seen him for a couple of years, either. Life is less fun without Roger in it. Crazy is good.
"God Loves Each Of Us As If There Were Only One Of Us"
Saint Augustine of Hippo - AD 397
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Name a must-read firearms book that doesn't get the attention it deserves. Either from age, language, or availability what works aren't being read, but should be? By the price alone obviously nothing to compare with the exotic books mentioned at exotic prices - all these are readily available at yard sale prices. I like Tom Hayes on White Tail - I read the 1960 original first but the 1977 reissue is good too. For an eastern Idaho connection I like Game and the Gunner: Observations on game management and sport hunting, Pierre (Albert) Pulling. I'd say Ted Trueblood was the best writer out of Idaho. I rank The Education of a Turkey Hunter with any of the great tales out of Africa for a hunter's memoir of his own now gone time and place. For an entree into knocks on Phil Sharpe, Herters long went out of their way to disparage a certain Army ordnance type in their reloading books.
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J A Hunter, Hunter
Jerry A Lewis, Wings for the Heart
Jerry A Lewis, Silent Crossings
Jerry A Lewis, The Longwalkers
Didn't know Jerry had written so many books. I loved "The Longwalkers". I had better start Amazoning. I recomend Francis Sell's "The Art of Successful Dear Hunting" to everyone.
Ignorance is not confined to uneducated people.
WHO IS JOHN GALT?
LIBERTY!
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The Longwalkers is Jerry's revision of his superb but vastly over-priced Silent Crossings.
To my sorrow, Jerry � one of the ablest young writers to come along in decades � has given-up writing. Too bad � he still has a lot of good stuff to tell.
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Several from my library as "MOST FAVORITES".
"Sport and Life in Western America & Bririch Culumbia"
Baillie Grohman
"Camps in the Rockies" Baillie Grohman
"Tales of a Big Game Guide" Russell Annabel
"Camp-fires in the Rockies" Hornaday -- Phillips
Magazine Story Outdoor Life February 1937 @.15 cents
"Record on a Meat Hunt L.S. Chadwick
[Chadwick Ram]
My # 1 also,
"Alaskan-Yukon Trophies Won & Lost" Young
All Orginals
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One rochchuck.
It didn't shoot too badly, but the so-called safety and other things made it a PITA to actually hunt with, especially at iron sight ranges. Toward the end of my first deer season I hadn't even taken a shot, so my dad took pity on me and loaded me his Marlin .30-30 with 4x scope (he'd taken his deer already) and I killed a big doe the first morning I carried it. Of course the shot was somewhere between 30 and 40 FEET, so the Mosin-Nagant probably would have worked.
Then after the season was over, he took me down to one of the local sporting goods stores where they had lots of used rifles, and told me to pick any of them out up to $50. This actually wasn't too bad a deal in those days. I picked out a used Savage 99EG in .308 priced at $55, but can't remember whether my father kicked in the extra $5 or I paid it out my paper route money.
Anyway, I killed some deer with that rifle over the next few years, but eventually got older and stupider and traded it off for something else. Too bad for you that you traded the Savage 99. You could have made a $20 profit - I'd pay you $75 for it!
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1. Scloppetaria
or Considerations on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns with Reference to Their Forming The Basis of a Permanent System of National Defence, Agreeable to the Genius of the Country.
By a Corporal of Riflemen, London, 1808.
2. Any Shot You Want
The A-Square Handloading and Rifle Manual
A-Square, 1996 (This would be A-Square's best product)
3. Harold R. Vaughn, Rifle Accuracy Facts
Precision Shooting, Inc. 1998
jim
LCDR Jim Dodd, USN (Ret.)
"If you're too busy to hunt, you're too busy."
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Theodore Roosevelt admirers should also get his "Naval War of 1812", his first book, published in 1882 when he was 24, which he had begun while he was in college. It was immediately recognized as a brilliant and authoritative treatment of that conflict and the US Navy bought copies for all its big ships (not that there were that many then !!). After more than a century it is still the basic text and has gone through many editions. Abebooks.com has it from a 1999 paperback for a few bucks all the way up to more than three hundred for the original two volumes.
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love Beards Eyelids of Morning.....beast to sit and read but the pictures are well worth the price and i flip through it often.... think i would love it if the wife would give me a month off to go down and sit at Kens place and just thumb through his library.....oh and chat too ofcourse  anyone got this one? Trailing the Giant Panda by Theodore Roosevelt.....ran across it on ebay 3 years ago.....didnt buy it, keep thinking of tracking a copy down cause its so un-PC
A serious student of the "Armchair Safari" always looking for Africa/Asia hunting books
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A great old and not frequently seen book is `Modern American Rifles by A.C. Gould. Published in 1892, it covered period rifles � manufacture, calibers, sights, target shooting, reloading, etc. It would be a wonderful candidate for modern reprinting.
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� think i would love it if the wife would give me a month off to go down and sit at Kens place and just thumb through his library.....oh and chat too ofcourse anyone got this one? Trailing the Giant Panda by Theodore Roosevelt.....ran across it on ebay 3 years ago.....didnt buy it, keep thinking of tracking a copy down cause its so un-PC � Better idea: bring her along! After she sees me, she'll appreciate you more. � My T R collection includes that one.
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A great old and not frequently seen book is `Modern American Rifles by A.C. Gould. Published in 1892, it covered period rifles � manufacture, calibers, sights, target shooting, reloading, etc. It would be a wonderful candidate for modern reprinting. Both Wolfe and Palladium have reprinted it. I have 'em both.
"Good enough" isn't.
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Ken,
I believe we cannot stump the ground loud enough in support of Palladium Press and the Firearms Classic Library. The NRA has not supported this project very well. Les Adams, Amanda Adams and Jim Casada have set up a real opportunity for young riflemen to expand their library with high quality volumes at reasonable prices.
One of the benefits of membership has been the Second Amendment Primer, the Bill of Rights Primer and the Marksmanship Primer, three great little books. The FCL has occasionally offered these little books at discount prices and we bought several for gifts.
Any mention of Earl Naramore should also include his little book: Handloaders Manual. A young handloader equipped with Handloaders Manual, Principles and Practices, Matterns Handloading Ammunition and Whelens Why Not Load Your Own will have a good grounding in the basics with only a need for modern load data to round out his or her library.
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wish i could Ken but i cant plan a weekend longer than bout 5 days and neither can the wife given our choice of career.....publishing a couple small town weekly newspapers gives us alot of freedoms but extended vacations isnt one of them.. may see if on the next Colorado trip i can leave the wife with her friends and head down your way for a day or so.
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hearty dittos on all points!
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If you include hunting books, a few of my favorites are:
Both of Elgin Gates' Trophy Hunter books
Robert Anderson's three "Great Rams" books
Mongolian Hunter by Patrick Steward
Asian Hunter by Captain John Brandt
Havilah Babcock's "I Don't Want to Shoot an Elephant" and "Jaybirds Go to Hell on Friday"
Ruark's "The Old Man and the Boy" (or just about any Ruark book)
Ricardo Medem's Argali and Persian Safari books
Roy Chapman Andrew's "Across Mongolian Plains" and "To the Ends of the Earth" (As mention by MD).
James Clark's "Trail of the Hunted"
Douglas Burden's "Into the Wilderness"
William Morden's "Across Asia's Snows and Deserts"
Jesus Yuren's "Song of the Summits"
Boddington's "From Mount Kenya to the Cape"
I also enjoyed all of John Batten's books
Any of Pat McManus or Russell Annabel's books for just a rollicking good read...
An honest man's pillow, is his peace of mind... JM
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For those into history read CROW KILLER. The story of Liver-eatin' Johnson. I've always been interested in the early hunters and adventurers. Johnson sure was one.
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Oregon45:
Just wondering if you received your copy of the book. I ordered it, but received a noticed today that they could not deliver. Just wondered if you were able to get your copy.
Tom
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I must have a decent collection, because so far I own at least 95% of the books suggested. � Congratulations if you have (or "good luck!" if you go looking for) Sheldon's Wilderness of Denali and Wilderness of the Upper Yukon. Got those two and Sheldon's "Wilderness of the Desert Bighorns & Seri Indians". My all time favorite is, of course, "Alaskan - Yukon Trophies Won and Lost". Here is another obscure title that is very good: "Grizzlies Don't Come Easy" by Ralph W. Young.
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