My wife is starting to ask what I'd like for christmas this year, and like any good consumer I pretty well buy whatever I want when I decide I want it.

But I got to thinking after christmas my field exploits should be winding down a bit and I'll have more down time.  Maybe, I thought, I should give her a list of books (trad shooting/hunting related) to get me.

I've read G Fred Asbell's series, and TJ Connors Trsditional Bowhunters Handbook, and Fred Bear's Field notes and the Masters of the Barebow series DVDs.

What other books would be on your top 5 reads?

I'd say Bows on the Little Delta by Glenn St Charles is a must. Also From the Den of the Old Bowhunter by Chet Stevenson is another favorite. Of the newer books, I also really enjoyed Once Upon a Tine by Barry Wensel.

I loved "Longbows in the far North"
But am also intersted in more.

Longbows In The Far North by E. Donnall Thomas
A Thousand Campfires by Jay Massey
Hunting Rutting Whitetails by Gene Wensel
Anything about Fred Bear
The complete Fred Bear DVD collection

Bowhunting Alaska's wild rivers by Jay Massey

"And the Horse you Rode In on" by the Wensels is not strictly all bowhunting, but it is hilarious.

QuoteOriginally posted by rastaman:
Bowhunting Alaska's wild rivers by Jay Massey

Tell your wife to start looking now with a full wallet.  

A Thousand Campfires
To All Things a Season
A Sand County Almanac
Those are 3 that come to mind real fast.

One With the Wilderness by Mike Mitten

Once Upon a Tine by Barry Wense

Buckskin and Bone by Gene Wensel

The Best of TBM

Trailing a Bear by Bob Munger--great book from Fred's rh man--camera guy, back up gun and great bowhunter in his own right.

Check out Dave Petersen's books, man made of elk etc...

One with the Wilderness - Mike Mitten

Once Upon a Tine - Barry Wensel

Anything by Gene Wensel

Anything by Roger Rothhaar (his son Ryan is also on this site) and can put you in contact with him, that's how I got mine.

Any of the Fred Bear books

Bows on the Little Delta - Glenn St.Charles

There are more........but these are all of the ones that I have read.

Winterhawk1960

Longbow Country by E. Donnall Thomas
Longbow's in the Far North by E. Donnall Thomas
Bows on the Little Delta by Glenn St. Charles
Ishi and Elvis by Jim Hamm
One with the Wilderness by Mike Mitten

That would be my top 5.

Kevin.

"Come November" by Gene Winsel, "Hunting With the Bow and Arrow" by Saxton Pope, "A Hunter's Heart" collection by David Peterson.

Toxicated, by Fred Anderson.  I read it and loaned it to two of my friends, who both loved it.  One of them read it twice.

A Thousand Campfires
Come November
Traplines North
Northern Bushcraft
Death in the Long Grass

Longbows of the Far North,Longbow Country, Mittens One with the Wilderness,Fireside Tales by Dan Bertalan and many the were mentioned above!

Trailing a Bear by Bob Munger.  I had a very difficult time putting it down every evening.

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Toxicated, by Fred Anderson.  I read it and loaned it to two of my friends, who both loved it.  One of them read it twice.

Had a chance to pick up that one when Fred Anderson was at the Western States Traditional Rendezvous last May. Unfortunately I procrastinated and missed my opportunity. But I'll definitely be placing an order.

I have read several being

"Longbows of the far north" my aboslute best, so make sure that is one of the 5 books you get

The Best of TBM

Longbows in the Far North

Archer in Africa

A Thousand Campfires

Ishi and Elvis