Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How many are man enough to admit they read?

It's rare I take to the woods for a day of hunting without a paperback in the pack. I have spent many a time in an undercut bank or in a couple of known "caves" on our place during a rainstorm with a book.

Here's a small cave on our Kentucky place. It's about 6 feet in diameter. I sat out a three hour rainstorm a couple years ago with a Vince Flynn book. When it ended worked my way back down the mountain to a stand and killed my best buck ever.

I wonder how many bunters over the centuries have taken shelter there?

I have a camouflage Bible I take to the stand.

Louie L'amour's "Sackett" books should be mandatory reading for every guy...

That sentence reminds me of the old Peanuts cartoon showing Lucy pushing a TV on a cart and running over Linus, who's on the floor reading a book...

It's just WRONG on so many counts..

Man enough to admit they read? What a dumb thing to say. . . .

Don't ever get started on Wilbur Smith.

Only 2 books I read in the last 30 odd years are Silent Warrior & Marine Sniper, awesome books!!

There's a whole new world awaitin you out there.

I too always take a book into the woods with me. When sitting and waiting, what better way to remain motionless is there?

I read, on average, two books a week (and have done so for over four decades). Usually mysteries, thrillers, and some military history. Favorite author: James Lee Burke. If you haven't read him, do.

I just wish that authors would take the time to research the firearms they "use" in their writing. (Burke does.)

You might like the John Ringo series of books,I just finished one of his 5 book series.
He does science fiction also.
So far all have been good reads,one I liked and plan to read again is The Last Centurion.

+1 i haven't been reading half as much lately as i would like but it isn't a man thing at all people read and enjoy i don't know a single person who is ashamed or anyone that looks down at anybody for reading.Not even the good for nothing teenagers

I made the mistake of taking "Give Your Heart To The Hawks" with me on a hunting trip on the Alaska Penninsula years ago. You will hear all kinds of noises. Great read.

In our family our two daughters and I are avid readers. My wife reads very little (at least in comparison).

A few Christmases ago our younger daughter started an annual newsletter to each of us based on an imaginary book club she made up. I had no idea how much of a sense of humour she has. Now we all look forward to her newsletter.

In fact, last Christmas her older sister prepared a response without knowing what her sisters letter would contain. Again, very humorous.

During our discussion I said I would keep a record this year of how many books I read. Most of my reading consists of detective novels. As of todays date I have read 112 books since last Christmas. This amounts to 43,233 pages of reading.

The foregoing does not include any newspaper, magazines or the material I read on the Campfire. It's obvious I'm retired and not spending nearly enough time outdoors anymore.

In an effort to force myself outside more often for the first time I got one of my rifles, a 40X Remington, rebarreled in a cartridge new to me. This has helped since I have done a lot more shooting during the last 2 months.

I amazed even myself when I found out how much reading I was actually doing.
During my working life I was required to do a lot of reading and I learned to read quickly but still retain the gist of the content.

More useless trivia for you guys to read.

Jim

Here I am giving up guy points again. I don't know why I do that, but I don't seem to be able to stop myself. My brother-in-law fell head over heels for the Sackett books back in the eighties and convinced me to read one. I was totally unimpressed, especially with the ending. "One day twenty years later, he went down to the creek and the Indians killed him" or something like that. Looked to me like Louis had reached the required number of words and just quit at that point. A couple of things to remember here is that I am not a fan of fiction and that I have nothing against anyone else's choice of reading material, just throwing my opinion out there. Best to all, John

I'll check these out.

"With The Old Breed-at Peleliu and Okinawa" -E. B. Sledge 2007 printing in paperback. If you want to know what WWII in the Pacific was like. Chris

I read everynight. When we were kids the highlight of our week was when we would go to town and go to the "Old Corner Bookshop" in Fort Collins and I could pick out a used Louis Lamour. Nowadays, theres two things I get, books and guns and a lot of times books on guns. Twice a week we shut off the T.V's for the night and the whole family reads.

I have a lot of favorites, too many to list.

Ryan

It's fine not liking louis lamour his writings are not for everyone but as a fan of his i will say thank you for giving him a chance

another older fiction book i read and liked was flight of the old dog.Basically if i remember right took an old b-17 and made it stealth to go into russia