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Books [message #58860 is a reply to message #58859] Fri, 30 June 2006 10:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Shane is currently offline  Shane
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Yeh, I agree there.

You can still hunt anything in Africa for the right price. My Dad's neighbor goes 3-4 times a year. He has shot everything. Last year he darted a black rhino. He had the choice of shooting or darting and chose darting. Same price either way. They evidently cull the old ones who become destructive to everything. He darted it, took his picture with it, and 4 vets brought it back.

Some of the fenced in hunts here in TX are probably OK. The ones that are 25K acres plus. This is a large enough area that the fence doesn't really matter, especially if you're bowhunting. Deer only tend to range in a couple square mile area in the open range. Not my style though.

I've never shot a laser sighted rifle.

I've never really read any hunting books. Odd???

Re: Books [message #58861 is a reply to message #58860] Fri, 30 June 2006 15:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Manualblock is currently offline  Manualblock
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What; no Hemmingway? Over the River and Into The Trees?
The Green HIlls Of Africa? I think they are the best descriptions of the act of hunting there is.
Faulkner? The Bear. That has the dubious distinction of having the longest single sentence in American Literature.
When I was a kid I used to read the hunting stories in Field and Stream religiously.
Hey; we drifted off track a little here hah?
My wife recieved a very lucrative job offer in Wyoming; Evanston to be exact. Know anything about the State? Cause I may be posting from there sometime in the near future.

Re: Books [message #58862 is a reply to message #58861] Fri, 30 June 2006 18:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Shane is currently offline  Shane
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I guess I never read any Hemingway or Faulkner. I read a lot, but not many classics. I like biographies and war novels on WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. I'm in the process of reading one about the Battle of Verdun from the English perspective.

Wyoming. Big sky, hot in the summer, COLD in the winter. Other than that I can't help you.

Re: Books [message #58863 is a reply to message #58862] Fri, 30 June 2006 18:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ahh; good stuff. For some reason I think of the book,"The Things They Carried." Ever read Allan Furst, WW11 novels of what it was like to live in wartime Europe.

Re: Books [message #58866 is a reply to message #58863] Fri, 30 June 2006 21:24 Go to previous message
Shane is currently offline  Shane
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The two war books I have going right now are "The Road to Verdun" by Ian Ousby and "War Letters" by Andrew Carroll. Then I've got a piece of fantasy fluff called "Tales of the Otori" by Lian Hearn and I just finished Alan Alda's autobio.

I like to read while listening to my SOHA headphone amp after the family has hit the hay.

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