Fond memories of the great gun writers of the past.

[jmace57]

Col Jim Corbett's "Man Eaters of India" and "Man Eaters of the Kumaon" are some of the most hair-raising hunting stories I've ever read.

 

[Safety First]

I have had a subscription to Guns Magazine for years. I always felt it was as good as any. I especially like John Conners writings/stories. Several months ago he stopped I believe due to physical problems. I am paid up for another 18 moths or so but I am actually considering not renewing. I may renew but I will check out a few others first. I have plenty of time but I just do not find it as interesting as I did before Conner left.

 

[1911 guy]

Skelton. Cooper. Keith. Connor. Wolffe. Aagaard. I ate it up.

Today we have gun writers who can do a decent review of an item they're paid to, if you read between the lines a little.
Then we had writers who could entertain and inform. The best of them could do both at the same time.
I still enjoy the humor of Pat McManus. Not really gun related, but outdoor stuff, mostly.

 

[SwampWolf]

"...Speaking of keeping a gun handy around the car reminds me of one time when I was sitting in a barbershop more or less cheerfully submitting to the tonsorial groomings and loquacious wanderings of a scissors wielding barberman. My attention was attracted to my car, parked on the opposite side of the avenue. A neatly dressed, youngish individual was surveying it with an appraising and apparently approving air. He walked around the shiny new bus, glanced in all the windows, tried all the doors, shot a quick glance up and down the street and then partially raised the hood. Evidently he thought better of that and finally gained the sidewalk again. After another futile try at the nearest door he ambled off down the street. I said nothing to my garrulous hair mechanic, but continued to keep an eye on things across the street. I thought maybe my car-admiring friend might return.

"He did not. The distance from the door of the barbershop to the driver's seat of my gas buggy was about a hundred feet, at which range I'll guarantee to hit the palm of your hand at least ten times in ten shots. Playing the role of the detached spectator, I was almost sorry the doors of my brand new auto were locked. Had that nattily attired young thug opened the door of my car and eased himself under the wheel preparatory to going South with ye ...'s sole means of transportation, I'd have notched his ear with a .44/40 slug, so help me Hannah!"

Anybody have a guess as to which old-time gun writer authored this excerpt from a book he wrote?

 

[Stimovsky]

Could someone please PM me with a link to a digital copy of "Hell, I was there" by Elmer Keith ?

 

[Pete D.]

Two that come to mind with very fond memories are Corey Ford who wrote “The Lower Forty” column for Field and Stream for many years. The other is Robert Ruark who wrote a book that changed my life...His autobiography “The Old Man and The Boy” as well as the classic “Horn of the Hunter”.
Pete