Here's a royalty free group of essays from Teddy Roosevelt. His story of the peccary hunt and discription of their behavior is pretty funny.

TR

Cheers!

Many Thanks for posting that information.

Roosevelt's description of hunting the Javelina's is very accurate for the times it took place.

One of the greatest things I enjoy about TR's writings of his hunting trips, is that he paid more attention to all the details of the hunt, the area it was taking place in, the habits of the game he was after and other species living in the area, and the people he met, and not devoting his writings about the equipment he was using on the hunt.

Personnally, I think too many modern writers expend too much space to describing their equipment, and not enough space to the whole concept of the hunt they are writing about.

CrazyHorseConsulting--isn't it all about the equipment? Whoever has the newest, fastest, biggest, most expensive, etc, etc, has the "best"?

Sarcasm aside, TR's writings are great. A friend loaned me one of his books which described a year or two on his ranch in the Dakotas and the various trips and hunts they went on. Also, one of the things I enjoyed was TR's description of the taste of some of the game. He didn't pull any punches and didn't slather all the praise on stuff he didn't like. If it didn't taste good to him, he said so. Didn't mean they threw it out or wasted it, but just wasn't a favored meat to them.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Personnally, I think too many modern writers expend too much space to describing their equipment, and not enough space to the whole concept of the hunt they are writing about.

That is how gun writers (at least when talking about magazines) pay their bills.

- mike

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That is how gun writers (at least when talking about magazines) pay their bills.

Yes, I understand that, but it is not just the Rag Writers, it is hunters in general, they have stopped even trying to be ameteur naturalists.

One should not be exclusive of the other.

Everything has become a competition in many cases with out much even rudimentary knowledge of the animals being hunted or the habitat being hunted in.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Everything has become a competition in many cases with out much even rudimentary knowledge of the animals being hunted or the habitat being hunted in.

Agree!

- mike