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Title: good books
Post by: beaver#1 on March 23, 2013, 09:56:00 PM
Im about to finish "hunting the hard way".  And I was wondering what other books are just as good?
Thanks
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Post by: MnFn on March 23, 2013, 11:15:00 PM
I really like reading anything written by Fred Asbell
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Post by: macbow on March 23, 2013, 11:24:00 PM
Recently enjoyed Longbow a hunting life. By Jay Campbell.
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Post by: BenM on March 23, 2013, 11:25:00 PM
Really like jay Campbell's  "Longbow".   Wish it was a few hundred pages longer.
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Post by: alligatordond on March 23, 2013, 11:42:00 PM
Longbow by Jay Campbell x3
Also Don Thomas'   "Have Bow Will Travel"
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Post by: mj seratt on March 24, 2013, 12:02:00 AM
Jay Campbell, Don Thomas, and Fred Asbell all are excellent, entertaining writers.  You need to read all three of them.
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Post by: Birdbow on March 24, 2013, 06:35:00 AM
'Ishi and Elvis' by Jim Hamm. Great read about recovering land, building a bow, and...well, don't want to give too much up!
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Post by: Goshawkin on March 24, 2013, 07:17:00 AM
"Sagittarius" and " In Africa" by Bob Swinehart are both great.
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Post by: beaver#1 on March 24, 2013, 07:22:00 AM
Cool thanks guys.
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Post by: rbcorbitt on March 24, 2013, 07:25:00 AM
Any of the Don Thomas books X2.  He is a great story teller with a great wit!!
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Post by: Marc B. on March 24, 2013, 07:33:00 AM
Bows on the Little Delta by Glen St Charles should be a must read.
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Post by: Birdbow on March 24, 2013, 08:10:00 AM
'Ishi and Elvis' by Jim Hamm. Great read about recovering land, building a bow, and...well, don't want to give too much up!
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Post by: Panzer on March 24, 2013, 09:18:00 AM
"Life at Full Draw" by Chuck Adams. It,s a great book.
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Post by: Littlejake on March 24, 2013, 11:20:00 AM
My Neck of the Woods by Bryce Lambley is a really good book,also he has a new book out now Platte River Driftwood that is really good too.
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Post by: Jakeemt on March 24, 2013, 01:04:00 PM
If any of you have an I pad they have " Hunting with the Bow and Arrow" by Saxton Pope for free in the book store app.
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Post by: Jakeemt on March 24, 2013, 01:05:00 PM
I should add that it's what made me decide to take the plunge.
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Post by: beaver#1 on March 24, 2013, 02:36:00 PM
Thanks Jakeemt. I just got it on my phone.
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Post by: awehrmann on March 24, 2013, 05:30:00 PM
Hunting with the bow and arrow by Saxton Pope is very good
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Post by: LBR on March 24, 2013, 06:56:00 PM
"Free Bear's Field Notes:  The Adventures of Fred Bear"

Even better if you watch his hunting movies as you read the book.  The book gives you the "behind the story", and it's hilarious how the movie narrator embellishes when things don't go as planned.  Some amazing footage of one of the father's of modern bowhunting.
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Post by: squapan on March 24, 2013, 07:06:00 PM
I'm reading Fred Bear's field notes right now! Great book!Man! I wish I was there with him, kroll and St charles on the little Delta.
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Post by: will_hunt on March 24, 2013, 07:20:00 PM
There are two MUST HAVES.  "A Traditional Journey", produced by the Pope and Young Club is at the top. Do whatever you must to get a copy of this coffee table worthy publication. You will cherish it the rest of your life. A leather bound copy of "The Witchery of Archery" by Maurice Thompson is the other. The ones listed before  are all great for the man cave library. ALSO, the first G. Fred Asbell "Instinctive Shooting" is fine work as the last few chapters are a compilation of hunts and they are heart pumping, as well as, humorous.
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Post by: Longbowwally on March 24, 2013, 08:12:00 PM
One of my favorites is "Bows, Swamps and Whitetails" by Tim Lewis. This is one of the few books I read over and over....Like someone else said "Ishi and Elvis" by Jim Hamm is a good one too. "Bows on the little delta" by Glenn St. Charles is a great one also.
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Post by: Phrogdrvr on March 24, 2013, 08:49:00 PM
Let's not forget, Mr Lamb's latest.

Tom
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Post by: Iowabowhunter on March 24, 2013, 09:04:00 PM
Every book written by the Wensels, Mark Baker. Mike Mitten, the Asbell books, Hunting Open Country Bucks by Dwight Schuh, Charlie Lambs book. Probably a few im missing, but those r the ones ive enjoyed so far.
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Post by: dnovo on March 24, 2013, 09:09:00 PM
"From the Den of the Olde Bowhunter" by Chet Stevenson is one of my favorites. I have most of the other ones mentioned above and they are all great books.
Love Don Thomas' writing. Any of his is highly recommended.
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Post by: TRAP on March 25, 2013, 08:00:00 AM
Come November by Gene Wensel is one of my favs. To all things a season by E Donnell Thomas is another.

Trap
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Post by: tracker12 on March 25, 2013, 08:08:00 AM
I have the Chuck Adams Life at Full Draw if someone wants to trade another book for it.
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Post by: beaver#1 on March 25, 2013, 09:33:00 AM
Thanks guys. I got the witchery of archery, hunting with the bow and arrow and toxophilus
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Post by: dbond85 on March 25, 2013, 09:47:00 AM
I like Fred Andersons books.
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Post by: Ed Q on March 25, 2013, 11:03:00 AM
Archerylibrary.com has a compilation of free books whose copyright has supposedly already expired. A couple of those are the Witchery of Archery and Hunting with the Bow and Arrow.
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Post by: alligatordond on March 25, 2013, 11:49:00 AM
I forgot to mention Bows, Swamps, and Whitetails by Tim Lewis. Glad someone also mentioned it. I have a special fondness for the book as I shot the piebald deer on the cover.