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Just curious,
Anyone have any interesting or valuable gun or shooting books?
I'm a rabid reader, and I'm constantly scouring the gun shows and
used book stores for anything on guns or shooting. It's amazing
sometimes what you might find. Years ago I found an old edition of
The Art of Shooting by Charles Lancaster at a ratty used book store
in one of those blink and you'll miss it kind of villages. It's the
1945 edition. I also found a neat little book at a library book
sale. It's called The Shotgun, and it's by T.D.S Purdey and Capt.
J.A. Purdey. Would that be James Purdey or maybe his father? I got
a copy of Churchills Shotgun Book through a friend who knew I liked
old shotguns. I think my favorite though, has to be The Upland
Shooting Life by George Bird Evans. I've probably read that one at
least three times now, and I still find it a great read. So what
have you got? I'd be very interested to see what anybody else has.
Ron
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An interesting subject, one little jewel I found is “Wing Shooting” by Chipmunk published by T.G. Davey, London, Ontario Canada 1881. Has lots of loading information on the new breechloaders. 
MP Sadly Deceased as of 2/17/2014
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You can't go wrong with anything by Gordon MacQuarrie, he's the greatest of the US sporting writers in my opinion.
Destry
Out there at the crossroads molding the devil's bullets. - Tom Waits
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I picked up "The Best Of Nash Buckingham", by George Bird Evans for 5 bucks at a local gun show a couple of months ago.
It has some great stories as well as some wonderful old pictures!
but my favorite has to be "Man-Eaters of Kumaon, by Jim Corbett
I'm not a big reader but that one I couldn't put down
CJ
The taste of poor quality lingers long after the cheap price is forgotten.........
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The authors of 'The Shotgun' were Tom and Jim Purdey.
It is a nice read and very evocative of attitudes of its time (note the bit on tiger hunting in India).
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C.J. A number of years ago when I was at Herschel Chaddick's place in Terrell, Texas he showed me a 12 gauge A.H. Fox Sterlingworth that had inscribed on the barrel: "Presented to jim Corbett" He had it priced very reasonably but I didn't buy it. That was one of those times that I "woulda, coulda, shouda" I had just finished reading "Man-Eaters of the Kumoan" and, like you, it is one of my all-time favourites.
Best Regards, George
To see my guns go to www.mylandco.com Select "SPORTING GUNS " My E-Mail palmettotreasure@aol.com
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Read Small Bore's new book. It is full of interesting information.
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Just got one in the mail yesterday called "Hollica Snooze" by Earnshaw Cook. Came out in the 50's, it's about hunting and drinking on the Eastern Shore. Pretty good so far, I managed about 1/4 of it before bed last night.
Destry
Out there at the crossroads molding the devil's bullets. - Tom Waits
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A couple of more recent books I've found enjoyable are the late Dick Baldwin's "The Road to Yesterday" A collection of old trapshooting stories, and Dr. Wayne Capooth's "The Golden Age of Waterfowling."
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One of my favorite writers was James Wentworth Day. He wrote many books about wildfowling in East Anglia. He was an avid punt gunner and wrote lots on that subject. He was opinionated, racist, a snob and totally undemocratic but his books are unfailingly interesting and his ideas on pesticide pollution were way ahead of his times.
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