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.

 

[Deleted member 16864]

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

Well, you’re nowhere near the top……

 

[Deleted member 16864]

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 !

 

[Lou (Louis)]

Kind of surprised nobody has mentioned Col. Tom Kelly, author of The Tenth Legion. I guess it's just an east coast turkey hunting thing.

I'm west coast, and he is my favorite turkey author. Right near the top of the list of all hunting books

 

[Salmonchaser]

Well I skimmed this thread from beginning to end, again. Some writers I still need to follow up on. I have yet to read anything by Rinella though I do enjoy his shows.

 

[brymoore]

Well I skimmed this thread from beginning to end, again. Some writers I still need to follow up on. I have yet to read anything by Rinella though I do enjoy his shows.

Rinella doesn’t rank top 25.

Spooner, whom I have met a time or two, gets my living rifle author vote.

Dead - Ted Trueblood is my favorite Idaho author.

 

[Irrelevant]

There's getting to be a pile of unknown authors who are getting published writing stories that are too emotional, too touchy feely, too fake. Bha mag, along with a few others, are where I see it the most.

 

[Kimber7man]

I rank John Barsness up there - possibly because I started my rifle looneyism back in 2006 about when I found 24hourcampfire (it was good then)

Also enjoyed Richard Mann and Steve Timm's articles. RIP Dogzapper.....

 

[brymoore]

I rank John Barsness up there - possibly because I started my rifle looneyism back in 2006 about when I found 24hourcampfire (it was good then)

Also enjoyed Richard Mann and Steve Timm's articles. RIP Dogzapper.....

Barnes’s is great. I’ve bought a bunch of his books. Optics expert

 

[BobT1105]

I have often told people that Jack O’Connor taught me to read, I still enjoy his writing. I always respected the writing of Warren Page. Bob Milek was a favorite and got me started on handgun hunting. Jim Corbet and John Hunter are up there too. As far as worst, Jim Zumbo leads the pack, Ron Spomer is pretty dry and spends a lot of time rehashing old topics. I don’t care for Larry Weishun or however you spell it in the least.