Irrelevant
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Totally poached the two above from @Nameless Range and @nastynate . But I want to have one place to find the good shit
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One of my favorites. Your link didn’t work, so here’s one that does so others can enjoy the crushing weight of guilt, responsibility, and dread that it imbues into the Christmas holiday.
Hem
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This book was my bible as a kid. Had no " stinkin internet". I used to drool over the fish Corey Ford caught. He seemed pretty old to me back then.
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I told my dad how much I enjoyed The Ledge - how it left me feeling something new and true and real. So he sat down and read it while my mom and wife and kids made lefse. It kind of put him in a bad mood and though it ain’t a happy story I was surprised. I don’t know if it is his age or what, because he used to like the heavy stuff.
I think of the last 4 words, “absolved of his morality”, a fair bit, and think that it’s beautiful and depending on one’s perspective there’s a lot to unpack there.
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F&S Classics: Suicide Made Easy | Field & Stream
Robert Ruark was one of the best hunting writers of his era—especially when it came to writing about Africa. Suicide Made Easy is his masterpiece about Cape buffalo.
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Irrelevant
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Let me know if this doesn't work. It's from an old Bugle. I read it often. It reminds me of my grandfather
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The Bittersweet Mountains.doc
The Bittersweet Mountains Distant as the moon, yet near as my own heartbeat, the Bittersweets always await me. The range exists somewhere between my head and heart, at the final jumping-off place near the end of life’s road—where elk season is always open, where the tracks are deep and fresh,...
Let me know if this doesn't work. It's from an old Bugle. I read it often. It reminds me of my grandfather
The Bittersweet Mountains.doc
The Bittersweet Mountains Distant as the moon, yet near as my own heartbeat, the Bittersweets always await me. The range exists somewhere between my head and heart, at the final jumping-off place near the end of life’s road—where elk season is always open, where the tracks are deep and fresh,...
Says I need to request access.
Irrelevant
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Now?
Yep. Works now.
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A Young Pup, an Old Setter, and a Point I'll Never Forget
When a quail hunter sets out for a late-season hunt with his pup, he stumbles upon an old setter, already locked up on a covey.
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ismith
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A copy of "Critics and Criticism" by R.S. Crane, is inbound. For some reason Los Angeles got added to the Itinerary, (it shipped from Aurora, IL to Salt Lake City). If it doesn't go up in flames and makes it to Montana, I will let you all know if it is worth all the hype.
Irrelevant
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^
My intention with this thread was not necessarily to talk about good books. But to provide links to free online articles/stories that people found not just informative or entertaining, but genuinely well written and likely of interest to others.
The New Yorker has some podcasts featuring McGuane - free, good writing, though it's in audio format: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/search?term=new yorker mcguane
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I thought this was interesting.
Irrelevant
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Also, and because I really don't feel like making a bigger effort to find a better place to put this gripe, this site sucks right now. I used to be naive enough to think there was a middle ground in the country, and that I could best find it in the threads of HT. Where vastly different politics came to share common adventures. Somewhere that hunters could... you know, agree that public land is pretty cool, and wildlife is pretty cool, and catching trout on a dry fly is pretty cool. And that it takes more than just well wishes and unicorn farts to have those things. But all this #winning seems to have gutted that middle ground like a goddamn whitetail somewhere back east, on the opening day of gun season while 10 beers deep and using a rusty pocket knife. All I can say is keep patting yourselves on the back, you did it, you won the great pronoun war of 2024! To hell with the rest of it.
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Not the worst thing I have read (the article). Shew trees or Arrow trees or any one of a dozen other kinds of littering a pretty boring to me. But your post, now that is good writing.Best thing I've read in that POS mag in a long while... because it was published in 2001.
Also, and because I really don't feel like making a bigger effort to find a better place to put this gripe, this site sucks right now. I used to be naive enough to think there was a middle ground in the country, and that I could best find it in the threads of HT. Where vastly different politics came to share common adventures. Somewhere that hunters could... you know, agree that public land is pretty cool, and wildlife is pretty cool, and catching trout on a dry fly is pretty cool. And that it takes more than just well wishes and unicorn farts to have those things. But all this #winning seems to have gutted that middle ground like a goddamn whitetail somewhere back east, on the opening day of gun season while 10 beers deep and using a rusty pocket knife. All I can say is keep patting yourselves on the back, you did it, you won the great pronoun war of 2024! To hell with the rest of it.
Carry on, up, and over that gutted whitetail.
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That is a good article, as writing there consistently was back in the day. Then, suddenly, it seemed, like the hunting & fishing magazines, it became all about gear reviews, particularly mountain bikes at the time we stopped subscribing.Best thing I've read in that POS mag in a long while... because it was published in 2001.
Also, and because I really don't feel like making a bigger effort to find a better place to put this gripe, this site sucks right now. I used to be naive enough to think there was a middle ground in the country, and that I could best find it in the threads of HT. Where vastly different politics came to share common adventures. Somewhere that hunters could... you know, agree that public land is pretty cool, and wildlife is pretty cool, and catching trout on a dry fly is pretty cool. And that it takes more than just well wishes and unicorn farts to have those things. But all this #winning seems to have gutted that middle ground like a goddamn whitetail somewhere back east, on the opening day of gun season while 10 beers deep and using a rusty pocket knife. All I can say is keep patting yourselves on the back, you did it, you won the great pronoun war of 2024! To hell with the rest of it.
There was a great bra fence near a take-out on the Missouri, but someone got offended so they took it down. Shame.
noharleyyet
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That was good @IrrelevantBest thing I've read in that POS mag in a long while... because it was published in 2001.
Also, and because I really don't feel like making a bigger effort to find a better place to put this gripe, this site sucks right now. I used to be naive enough to think there was a middle ground in the country, and that I could best find it in the threads of HT. Where vastly different politics came to share common adventures. Somewhere that hunters could... you know, agree that public land is pretty cool, and wildlife is pretty cool, and catching trout on a dry fly is pretty cool. And that it takes more than just well wishes and unicorn farts to have those things. But all this #winning seems to have gutted that middle ground like a goddamn whitetail somewhere back east, on the opening day of gun season while 10 beers deep and using a rusty pocket knife. All I can say is keep patting yourselves on the back, you did it, you won the great pronoun war of 2024! To hell with the rest of it.
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