Best and worst hunting/outdoor writers

[Jbotto]

I’ll prly never read another Mann book after this one. Failing to mention the .280AI is unconscionable when writing about 50 hunting cartridges. I’d understand if it were just 10, but 50? C’mon man.

Basically felt like I was reading a compilation of magazine cartridge reviews.

He also called the .30-06 a pedophile cartridge and his disdain for it grew once he found out a guy he knew that loved the cartridge was a pedo. I’m not really a fanboy of any cartridge but to do the classic .30-06 like that was just wrong.
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I got on a Richard Mann kick for awhile and the more I read of him the more I didn’t care for him. Can’t quite put my finger on it, but it was some weird elitism in everything he wrote. The .30-06 opinion is the weirdest one too. I get it, if that is his connection with it but it seems that he brings it up every time he’s forced to mention the .30-06.

 

[Lou (Louis)]

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.

He has articles in various hunting magazines and, of course, on the MeatEater site. Fantastic writer.