Whats everybody's favorite hunting book?
Mines You'll learn no harm from the hills by Newton McConochie
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Whats everybody's favorite hunting book?
Mines You'll learn no harm from the hills by Newton McConochie
Red deer of nz. by lentil and saxton.
Pretty much a tell all, very informative
Yeah that red deer book is the bible aye... big al lesters r good reads too
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One night out Spotlighting. But Rex Forresters Chopper Boys is hard to beat.
There are a few:
Hunter - J A Hunter
The Last Safari - Bruce Vanbuskirk
Death in the Long Grass - Peter Hathaway Capstick
Use Enough Gun - Robert Ruark
A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa - Frederick Courtenay Selous
Of Mountain, Men and Deer - Brian Burden
"Stags Galore!" by Jim Griffin
Bloody exciting reading from a good keen Hawke's Bay bloke
no offence to anyone related to him or that knows him but the worst out of my big collection of African and NZ hunting books would easily be
"Hunter Climb High" by some NZ fella.
Anyone read Green Hills of Africa by Hemingway? I might give it ago because I like his novels
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It's on my to read list but I haven't yetQuote:
Originally Posted by phillipgr
Keith Severinson.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter
Charlie Janes, Hunting for Trouble
Ah thats it, had a feeling his name began with a K, what did you think of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by BRADS
Horn of the hunter - Robert Ruark
Hunter - J A Hunter
Leopards in the night - Guy Muldoon
The Tigers of Trengganu - Lt Col A locke
Nine Man Eaters and one Rogue - Kenneth Anderson
Man eaters of India - Jim Corbett
One more I forgot
How (Not) to Hunt Pigs - Bruce Truter
More a book for after the kill.
The Game Butcher by Darran Meates.
Ironic last name, awesome book.
Backaches and backsteaks(A hunters life) by peter lester now live in Waipuk ,read a few books but this is my fav.
Lol- he's my great uncle - Keith Severinsen. I didnt know him very well. He died in 2005. That book is a hard to read. It was his first I think.. 'Tracks of a hunter' and 'hunt the far mountain' are a lot easier to read. It was reading these when I was younger that got me interested in deer hunting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter
Small word:) I hunt with one his grandsons, big crowd thow the sevy bunch:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich007
Yeah definitely - which grandson? I remember Angus
I use to work with his cousin Ron.
Death in the Long Grass
Eye of the Hunter by John Anderson
Call of the Wapiti by Ray Tinsley
Actually I was just thinking about that, maybe great grandson. Eli, one of Pete's sons, his pic is in thread ''trip of firsts"Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich007
I also found the first book hard to read.
pack and rifle p holden
use enough gun r ruark
run for the trees j s rand
maneaters of tsavo from which the heart of darkness film was madepretty sur i read the hemingway book to but found it slow going:pissed off:Quote:
THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO
AND
Other East African Adventures
BY
Lieut.-Col. J. H. Patterson, D.S.O.
WITH A FOREWORD BY
FREDERICK COURTENEY SELOUS
Hemingway can be that way sometimes. I think it was his journal/diary so maybe it wasn't written to be published and read in that way.Quote:
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The venison hunters Mike Bennett
mate! kiwi hunting books are tops! dave radcliffs two books era gone , and scacred ground are both a dam good read. also wayne blakes two books, another top read. kiwi hunting at its best. late 60s into the 70s both of these guys did it for a living, and know their shit.! cant beat, experience. also don kiddie legend hunter, his book is also very good.
I read A Good Keen Man by Crump while away for a week hunting recently, thoroughly enjoyed it as I do all his writing.
I just got a book which is a compilation of Philip Holden stories and great photography called Hunting and High Country - got it for $15 at Paper Plus and I'm slowly getting through it, its a great coffee table book - I'm very tempted to buy Pack and Rifle after reading a bit of it.
Two dogs and a rifle Ken Cuthberson is another good pig hunting book, must have been awesome days
yip thats a good read two, i was up that valley not long ago, pretty wild country
Pack and rifles pretty goodQuote:
Originally Posted by PissCrook
I've a good collection of early NZ love reading the good ones over and over.Quote:
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Keiths museum at Ashley Clinton is a must visit for all hunters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich007
Joff Thompsons books are good reading,Tough buggers.
Hey SA, 'A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa - Frederick Courtenay Selous' did he create the Rhodesian Selous scouts?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudattack
As far as I know they were named in honour of him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouser
In Search Of The Wild Red Deer- Charlie Shuttleworth. These guys are my idols, my great grandad was hunting in the whitcombe area in the same time and got some good heads. I've see most of the country up there, love the place.
madjon right those guys were tough dudes, no choppers, polarfleece, cookers, flash packs, sat phones, range finders, dia up scopes, or any scopes for that matter. just a few more deer and less people.