What is the best Jay Massey Book, Bowhunting Alaska's wild rivers or A Thousand Campfires?
Yes!
How about the one YOU like best after reading both.
Well, since they are both around $100.00 used, I will have pick one....lol
I bought Wild Rivers off the shelf in Fairbanks around 1984 or so. Still have it and enjoy it. Campfires is good, but I sold my used copy after reading it. Both great reads.
A neat story....I took LaClairs copy of "A Thousand Campfires" out into the woods one day, intent on staying in my ground blind as long as I could. I read the whole book in one sitting, I literally could not put it down. As I read the last word, closed the book, and tucked it into my pack, I looked up to see a fat doe standing broadside, completely unaware of my presence. I had a smile on myself the entire time I was dragging her to the truck :bigsmyl:
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A neat story....I took LaClairs copy of "A Thousand Campfires" out into the woods one day, intent on staying in my ground blind as long as I could. I read the whole book in one sitting, I literally could not put it down. As I read the last word, closed the book, and tucked it into my pack, I looked up to see a fat doe standing broadside, completely unaware of my presence. I had a smile on myself the entire time I was dragging her to the truck :bigsmyl:
That's as good as it gets buddy. I loved Alaska's Wild Rivers. Great read-it's kind of like a modern day Fred Bear Field notes.
Campfires for me roger , I had the same thing happened to me , it was a small 6point 25yrds away making a rub , let him walk ,but I cut the rub down and it's in my bow room . A different. Trophy.
$100??? Wow I'd better hide my copies in a vault.
Being from Oklahoma, Jay Massey was around our area quite a bit and would be at the traditional events. I remember him saying "A Thousand Campfires" was most popular of his books and it would get my vote.
"A Thousand Campfires".
How about his third? "The Bowyers Craft"? Great book too!
I believe Jay has four books out there, but I've only read "Thousand Campfires" and know you cannot go wrong with that one. He was a wonderful writer who left us much too soon.
The rarity and expense of his works should tell us how good and popular he was/is.
In addition to the three already mentioned, he published a fourth, The Book of Primitive Archery, in 1990. They're all good reads.
Alaska's Wild Rivers.Read it in one sit as well.
Flip a coin, both are great reads. Buy whichever one wins the coin toss, read it and then trade it for the other.
DD
I have "The Book Of Primitive Archery" and "The Bowyers Craft" both signed to me by Jay. One is copy right 1987 and the other 1990. I also have a Jay Massey sinew backed osage bow with halibut skin covering. A very special part of my collection.
The Bowyers Craft(1987) was my first bow building book and helped me get started building selfbows.
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Flip a coin, both are great reads. Buy whichever one wins the coin toss, read it and then trade it for the other.
DD
That sounds like a pretty good idea!
I picked up a copy of "A Thousand Campfires" last year. It is one of my all time favorites. Can't speak for his other books, but I wouldn't pass any of them up if given the chance.
Both are great books, Wild Rivers has several chapters by Jay's hunting buddies. I loaned out Wild Rivers and never got it back , Paid $100 for a rough copy 20 years later. JIm
Jay's, "The Bowyer's Craft", continues to be a great read and a valuable resource. Last year, I resolved to stop lending out archery books after I purchased my FOURTH copy of Asbell's, "Instinctive Shooting"! (I must be getting cranky in my old age....)