Gun Dog Forum

After many years of wanting but never quite getting around to reading "Sand County Almanac" I can only say, what was I waiting for! A great book, only a couple of chapters left to finish tonight. It did get me thinking, what are some other goodreads? I personally enjoyed "Modern Pheasant Hunting" by Steve Grooms and "The Hunting Trips of a Ranchman". I want to read "Snakefoot" and "Jenny Willow", and Gene Hill's books, heard good things about them.

What are some of your personal favorites?

one of me fravorites is "Where the red fern grows" by Wilson Rawls.

Grouse Feathers - a collection of essays by Burton Spiller. Written in 1935 or so. I am about 2/3 of the way through it and it is just great.

I like George Bird Evans books. I have read The Trouble With Bird Dogs and The Upland Shooting Life..........Scott

Everything Gene Hill and George Byrd Evans wrote. Steve Smith is good also.

Ezzy

Just finished Teddy's Wilderness Hunter, if you liked Hunting trips of a ranchman you'll probably like this one too! (different stories)

If you are a Ruffed Grouse hunter, the book Hunting the Sun: A Passion for Grouse by Ted Nelson Lundrigan is a must read. He also has written Grouse and Lesser Gods another great grouse book.

My Grandpa's hunting and fishing journal. He kept it from about 1930 till the mid '80's. He was a great outdoorsman. He took trips to Canada at least twice a year for 40+ years.

Mike Gaddis is a good writer, check out the books titled "Jenny Willow" and "Zip Zap". You won't be sorry. Other good writers are Gene Hill, George Bird Evans, Charles Fergus, Thomas McGuane, Corey Ford, among others that I can't think of at this moment. Another good writer is Bill Heavey. He writes for Field and Stream, generally the last page in the magazine. I'm not a fan of the magazine because they usually have articles about the big three, (Pheasant, Deer and Bass Fishin, none of which I'm really interested in, but they certainly have some good writers that bring the periodical up a notch. "Jenny Willow" would top my list of recent literature. "The Road to Tinkamtown(Sp?) by Corey Ford has got to be the best outdoor story ever written. Enjoy!

It is jogging my memory a bit, but I have read "Where a Red Fern Grows" Come to think of it "Ole Yeller' and "Call of the Wild" were favorites growing up. Not exclusivly hunting books, but good dog books.

Snakefoot was good, wing and shot was good, where the red fern grows. Not a book that I know of, but last year on the way home from grouse hunting, I listened to a series of short stories on audio, and they were nothing short of amazing, and I cannot for the life of me remeber the names of them, alot of duck hunting stories in them, it really reminded me of the old radio broadcasts on the A.M. I'll see if I can't find something on them.

Chip