So my Christmas presents came in the mail and I knocked over Craig Boddingtons book first up(African Experience). Not a bad read. In it he said that Ruarks "Horn of the Hunter" is a must read and as luck should have it I had that book to read as well . Almost done with it and I have to say I've throughly enjoyed it. I've got a couple of Corbett books and would like to get the collection, and have read some interesting books on NZ hunting. What other books out there are "must reads" do you think?

Use enough gun...Robert Ruark

A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa....Frederick Courtney Selous

Death in the Long Grass....Peter Hathaway Capstick

There's three (all African) off the top of my head.

AFRICAN RIFLES AND CARTRIDGES By John "Pondoro" Taylor.

Just read it for the second or third time.

TROPHY HUNTER by Kiwi Murray Cameron. Was the book that inspired me most.


Cheers,
Mark.

Big Shots, The: Edwardian Shooting Parties By Jonathan Garnier Ruffer

Keith Severinsen and Phillip Holden for books on New Zealand.

White Hunters By Brian Herne

African Game Trails By Col Allison.

Months of the Sun By Ian Nyschens

+1 to johnfox on Ruark's 'Use Enough Gun'.

Two other Ruarks I highly recommend, which are hunting and fishing episodes of his upbringing in North Carolina, are 'The Old Man and the Boy' and the sequel 'The Old Man's Boy Grows Older'. The latter can be hard to find, but is worth tracking down.

www.bookfinder.com is an excellent site for finding cheap books, a 'multi site search engine'. Easy to set up so that it sorts by net price including shipping, too.

The Corbett books are available in two hardcover omnibus editions, by Oxford University Press, Delhi. Less than $20 each posted, from The Book Depository UK, via Bookfinder.

'The Jim Corbett Omnibus' includes 'Man-Eaters of Kumaon', 'The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon', and 'The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag'.

'The Second Jim Corbett Omnibus' has a very different theme, and includes 'Jungle Lore', 'My India', and 'Treetops'.

A couple of great sites to look for titles:
http://www.anglebooks.com/
https://www.safaripress.com/home.php

Any of the Capsticks are worth a read - some are better than others but as long as you accept that he was a great writer of short stories and not a novelist you wont go wrong.

I second Ian Nyschens "Months of the Sun ".

Horned Death by Burger is worth a read too.

You will become addicted to hunting books at this rate ....

I will be one dissenting voice for “use enough gun”. While its a great title for a hunting book, I was disappointed with the actual book. It was published after Ruark’s death and is a compilation of extracts from other material he wrote – really just an attempt to cash in by the heirs of Ruark. Having said that, I already owned every other book by Ruark at the time I bought use enough gun, so if you only read one Ruark book, you would probably enjoy use enough gun. “Horn of the hunter” is by far his best work though in my opinion. “Something of value” is worth a read, though not strictly speaking a “hunting book”.

“Karamojo Bell” was one of the first African hunting books I read, and still one of the most enjoyable. I liked it better than Bell’s other books, but anything by Bell is worth reading.

“Hell West and Crooked” by Tom Cole is a great read about frontier life in Australia. Again not really a hunting book, but sure to be of interest to an outdoorsman.

“African rifles and cartridges” by Tailor is definitely worth reading, as is “Safari Rifles” by Boddington.

Shakari Connection have a pretty good bibliography of hunting titles with a range of categorisations which is worth taking a look at to get more ideas for reading: http://www.shakariconnection.c...al-hunter-books.html

For either fans of hunting in the old empire, or fans of Sambar hunting, these titles may be of interest:

*** Bandwidth WARNING – these are PDFs of the original titles and are around 30MB each ***

The rifle and the hound in Ceylon (1821-1893) by Sir Samuel White Baker

http://www.archive.org/downloa...ndinceyl00inbake.pdf

Hunting & shooting in Ceylon (1907) by Harry Storey (Sambar are referred to as “ELK” throughout this text.
http://www.archive.org/downloa...otingi00storrich.pdf

I've read Tom Coles books. Bloody good read.

More books and articles online than you could probably ever read (at least from an online source):

Nickudu Files - Online Books and Articles

Another vote for "Karamoko Safari" by WDM Bell. Pure elephant hunting.

I also wasn't so impressed with "Use ENough Gun." I think if you have "Horn of the Hunter", you don't need it really.

Might want to look at the books by Kenneth Anderson. He lived in Banglore India, as opposed to Corbett who live in the NE area. Anderson did a lot of the same kind of Maneater hunting as Corbett, and, in my opinion, was in some ways a better writer. Anderson's rifle is a 95 Winchester in 405 Winchester. A couple of his titles are Call of the Maneater, and Maneaters and Jungle Killers, NIne Maneaters and One Rogue, and, The Tiger Roars.. VERY good reads.