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One of my primary Duck Hunting Mentors left his collection of HUnting, Fishing and just overall outdoors books to me when he passed away. He had a habit of underlining things, making notes in side bars and leaving Cards like birthday and Christmas Cards tucked in at appropriate points in the book. He also left smaller newspaper and magazine articles at pages which covered that subject. It's a wonderful way to have an enhanced view of his life and times. Yes, it reduces value by "defacing" the copy but to me it enhances the personal value. These books will be passed on to my Son with my added info .
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One of my primary Duck Hunting Mentors left his collection of HUnting, Fishing and just overall outdoors books to me when he passed away. He had a habit of underlining things, making notes in side bars and leaving Cards like birthday and Christmas Cards tucked in at appropriate points in the book. He also left smaller newspaper and magazine articles at pages which covered that subject. It's a wonderful way to have an enhanced view of his life and times. Yes, it reduces value by "defacing" the copy but to me it enhances the personal value. These books will be passed on to my Son with my added info .
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Dang it, I keep double clicking on the submit button.
Sorry
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Don't worry about it. Nice post, worth reading twice...Geo
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It's interesting how we end up with a hobby. For me it started when I started duck hunting about 1990 or so. I don't come from a family with any kind of sporting tradition, it was just a few of my friends and Fraternity Brothers and I figuring it out for ourselves. I started buying books of the how to sort. Some authors that come to mind are Ralph Coykenndall, Zack Taylor and Bob Brister. I started popping by used book stores when ever I passed them and found some cool older stuff. Then I found Sporting Classics Magazine, back when they had a great book column that talked about the classic writers, that is what really got me hooked. I discovered Nash Buckingham, Corey Ford, Robert Ruark, Archibald Rutledge, Havilah Babcock and a bunch of others. At this point, I really prefer the old sotories and dont really pay much attention to the How To stuff, I do buy good reference books when I find them as well and was thrilled to find a copy of Walt's Ithaca book a while ago.
I think I have more fun with the books than I do with the guns and they take up much less room too.
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For those of you in MD check out the Unicorn bookstore in Easton MD. Rooms full of used books covering every imaginable topic. I recommend "Having My Say, conversations with Wiley Abbott" by Foley as a good read about an old Eastern Shore Waterman. Hunting, fishing, trapping, fishing, etc. It's one I reread every few years
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