Best and worst hunting/outdoor writers

[Elkmagnet]

You guys have hit the classics.
5 pages in with no mention of Guy Eastman.
Must be middle of the pack.

 

[mountainboat]

There are some great recommendations in here. Any recommendations on where to start with Ruark?

Near the top of my list is “Horns in the High Country” by Andy Russell. Andy Russell’s life story is incredible and he intertwined his sheep hunting stories with his research on sheep very well. I read his book before bed and had vivid dreams of sheep country each night. Highly underrated in my opinion. He wrote another book on grizzlies that I’m hoping to get to soon.

 

[Irrelevant]

Anyone have suggestions for hunting/fishing poetry? Maybe a compilation?

 

[Maverick1]

Ron Spomer? He's got some real knock down power behind him and quite a bit of down range energy & wallop. Something like that!

Geez, gone are the days when the hunting and shooting magazines used to arrive in the mailbox.

 

[ismith]

WTF are you smoking? Way near the bottom of my list! Terrible! 0 stars. #NotWinning

Well, you’re nowhere near the top……

 

[ismith]

I was doing a little reading earlier and it got me wondering who the good folks on here think are some of the better and worst outdoor authors past and present. Who is the best? Is it O’Connor?
I like Duncan Gilchrist He was no literary genius, compared to others, but that simple, matter of (questionable) factness is also why I like him.

And for the worst, is it Ron Spomer or Craig Boddington?

Keith and O’Connor are really the only two that really matter, although there are many others who are relevant.
Hemingway and Ruark are the other two that matter, but in different/similar ways as the other two.

 

[F250]

Just got my January/February copy of Bugle. Notice advising this is the last Rifles and Cartridges column by Wayne Van Zwoll. Going to miss him. Always the first section I flip through to read. Love his style. Grew up waiting for Outdoor Life to arrive each month and soak up Jack O’Connor !