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When thinking who i like (opinion) i have to ask, am i looking for factual correctness, ease of reading, or the effect the writer had on me.
Jack O'Connor had the greatest impact and influence on me as a kid (10-18)
As a young shooter, Bob Brister's Art and Science of Shotguning really impacted my reloading and shooting.
As an adult Hadoke has been great, but I must admit there have been many within the pages of Doublegun Journal
Not gun writers but upland bird writers Guy De la Valdene, ted Lundrigen, and many others. I spent the last 10 minutes looking at my shelves and I enjoy so very many good writers, guns, birds, and Dogs, I truly cannot decide.
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Pondoro Taylor, Carmicheal, Gordon Cundill, Bob Jones...
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G.T. Garwood. How old was he when he ordered the 16 from Lang? I think I'm coming up on where he was. Steven Bodio. I have a few of his books that he signed and sent to me. We speak a few times a year, and I know I'd rather eat his cooking, and drink with him, before any other author listed here.
Jim Charmicheal. Ed Zern. Guy de la Valdene.
A few others, well covered, above.
Best,
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"Best" takes in a lot of territory but if we are talking shotguns & writing of a technical bent Michael Yardley is one of my favorites.
As previously mentioned, Sir Gerald Burrard's writing is excellent & informative but I always feel like I'm back in college reading a textbook when I read his stuff.
John Barsness is one of my favorite writers when it comes to rifles & handloading & Charlie Waterman for a non technical enjoyable read about dogs, upland hunting, big game hunting, shotguns, rifles & fishing.
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J.H. Walsh (Stonehenge) and Robert Held.
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I have many of the authors mentioned as favorites. I also enjoy Steve Smith's work.
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Yup, bargain hunters can go on Amazon and scarf up Gene Hill stuff for about a tenth of what it is worth. He knew what shotguns and shotgun acquisition was all about. We're supposed to store these guns as well as shooting them. Most authors don't understand "shotgun acquisition". I rank Gene Hill's "The Stranger" and "Pepper" with Nash Buckingham's "Play House" and "Hail and Farewell"__And in my signed copy of his "Shotgunner's Notebook" his "Guns as Investments" is still valid today- I met him and he signed all my copies of his books extant then in Oct 1990, when he and Mike McIntosh were out here in MI on a Orvis sponsored tour-at that time, the asst. mgr. of the local Orvis Shoppe in Ada was a close hunting partner-, so he invited me- and my Gene Hill books, like my Grandfather's AHE, are NFS- not now, not while I am above ground- and I turn 74 tomorrow- Guns as Investments-, huum- a Model 21 on Ex-Lax Bay for half a grand- yup, damn good investment in today's market- DT, Ext. early series M21 perhaps at that bargain basement price--
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We can all do with knowledgeable copy editors. I like much of what's in O'Connor's "Shotgun Book", but he said LC Smith didn't make any .410's. They were still making them while Jack was alive. More of a rifle guy.
I can remember when most of what was written about shotguns from a technical standpoint, in this country, carried a byline of either Zutz, McIntosh, or Brister. Zutz in particular was very prolific. Three different styles, all interesting and entertaining in their own ways.
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We can all do with knowledgeable copy editors. I like much of what's in O'Connor's "Shotgun Book", but he said LC Smith didn't make any .410's. They were still making them while Jack was alive. More of a rifle guy.
I can remember when most of what was written about shotguns from a technical standpoint, in this country, carried a byline of either Zutz, McIntosh, or Brister. Zutz in particular was very prolific. Three different styles, all interesting and entertaining in their own ways. Brister's book, THE ART & SCIENCE OF SHOTGUNNING should be required reading. Zutz's and Brister's empirically derived data as well as their ingenuity used to get it at a time when a lot of the written word about shotgunning was repeated gun lore brought us out of the dark ages.
This ain't Dodge City, and you ain't Bill Hickok!-Matthew Quigley
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Not gun writers but upland bird writers Guy De la Valdene,
de la Valdene is a wonderful writer and has had a life most would envy. After reading what happened to his daughter Valerie last year and what the family has gone through, there is no envy here. Gil
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