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re: Recommend a good outdoor book to read while on the stand
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:31 pm to eyepooted
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:31 pm to eyepooted
If you like Lewis & Clark, then you'll like Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose. It details the Lewis & Clark expedition. I read it earlier this year and it was great. It really paints the Great Plains as the American Serengeti. Incredible what that group accomplished.
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Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:32 pm to oleyeller
I dont have any suggestions but I listen to books on tape a bunch in the deer stand. I highly recommend it for long sits.
It keeps my eyes off the screen and on the lanes. It also keeps my mind very alert.
(The reason I have no suggestions is that I have been listening to the game of thrones books for about a year now. Almost done with the last one.)
It keeps my eyes off the screen and on the lanes. It also keeps my mind very alert.
(The reason I have no suggestions is that I have been listening to the game of thrones books for about a year now. Almost done with the last one.)
This post was edited on 12/23/14 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:35 pm to MitchMartin
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It keeps my eyes off the screen and on the lanes. It also keeps my mind very alert.
He said while sitting in a deer stand.....
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:37 pm to MitchMartin
Did you just reply to yourself? 
Oh I see what you did. nevermind
Oh I see what you did. nevermind
This post was edited on 12/23/14 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:40 pm to Palo Gaucho
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If you like Lewis & Clark, then you'll like Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose. It details the Lewis & Clark expedition. I read it earlier this year and it was great. It really paints the Great Plains as the American Serengeti. Incredible what that group accomplished.
I just read the first page of it on Amazon. Is in that journal format the entire book? I find it slightly difficult to read.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:41 pm to eyepooted
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I understand your concern and appreciate the sound advice. I will be hunting in a box blind the whole weekend so the likelihood of me injuring myself to the point of not being able to get back is slim.
anddd you just jinxed it...
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:41 pm to eyepooted
Just making fun of myself for not following my own advice. Haha
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:41 pm to eyepooted
Man, I have read in the deer stand before, hunting in Union Parish, La. Plenty of time for reading where I was.
But hunting in Cotulla, tx and even Madison Parish, I don't even think about reading. You better have your head moving or you will miss seeing that goodun slipping around all those other deer you see!
I don't read many hunting books, but anything by John Sanford is great. If you want a good book about snipers, read War of the Rats, about 2 snipers dueling it out in Stalingrad during WWII
But hunting in Cotulla, tx and even Madison Parish, I don't even think about reading. You better have your head moving or you will miss seeing that goodun slipping around all those other deer you see!
I don't read many hunting books, but anything by John Sanford is great. If you want a good book about snipers, read War of the Rats, about 2 snipers dueling it out in Stalingrad during WWII
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:43 pm to eyepooted
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I understand your concern and appreciate the sound advice. I will be hunting in a box blind the whole weekend so the likelihood of me injuring myself to the point of not being able to get back is slim.
your a grown man
i just know anything can happen fast before you realize it. Good luck, and be carefulPosted on 12/23/14 at 3:46 pm to eyepooted
No, this book isn't the journals, but it does regularly use excerpts from their journals. To me using the excerpts connected you more to the Lewis & Clark because you got to read of exactly what they experienced, in their own words, while still having the readability of a novel.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:49 pm to LSUCouyon
quote:Also a good book.
War of the Rats
If you want to broaden your scope to war novels, Killer Angels is fantastic. I just finished the trilogy (Killer Angels, Gods and Generals, & The Last Full Measure), all were good but Killer Angels was the best of the three.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:57 pm to Palo Gaucho
Agree on that trilogy. Can't think of the author's name, but his son wrote a civil war novel also.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 3:58 pm to Palo Gaucho
I second Killer Angels and Undaunted Courage.
Also for a little different outdoor type book, The Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurty.
Also for a little different outdoor type book, The Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurty.
This post was edited on 12/23/14 at 4:00 pm
Posted on 12/23/14 at 4:01 pm to LSUCouyon
Michael Shaara wrote Killer Angels, his son Jeff write the other two. Jeff is good, just not quite as good as his Dad. I just started another trilogy written by Jeff, covering the western campaign of the civil war. It hasn't quite sucked me in like the other books did.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 4:02 pm to eyepooted
Maneaters of Tsavo (not sure if spelled right) if half the shite in this book is true, dude had balls of steel
Posted on 12/23/14 at 4:02 pm to oleyeller
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oleyeller
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i just know anything can happen fast before you realize it.
I couldn't agree more.
My ex-BIL who I hunted with a lot as a young man was one of the most paranoid fellas I know about gun safety and the like. It definitely rubbed off on me. The older I get the more I understand that I'm not as athletic as my 22 yr old self and the outdoors almost always win. That's in regards to taking chances.
This post was edited on 12/23/14 at 4:03 pm
Posted on 12/23/14 at 4:06 pm to Palo Gaucho
Yeah, I thought Killer Angels was best. I had just remembered the name when you sent this.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 4:08 pm to MSWebfoot
I still have that copy of Undaunted Courage you gave me. Actually had tears in my eyes at the end about Meriweather Lewis. Didn't know that until I read that book.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 4:11 pm to LSUCouyon
Just recently found mine. I am going to try and read it, but still working on Lonesome Dove. I chisel away at it from time to time.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 4:13 pm to LSUCouyon
I agree you shouldn't be reading while on stand. Are you hunting or reading? Below are my recommendations for midday and evening......
I can recommend any African Safari book by Peter Hathaway Capstick. Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of Africa another good safari book. Robert Ruark Old Man and the boy and its sequel old mans boy grows older.
All are great outdoors books.
I can recommend any African Safari book by Peter Hathaway Capstick. Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of Africa another good safari book. Robert Ruark Old Man and the boy and its sequel old mans boy grows older.
All are great outdoors books.
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