The Little Red Book of Hunter's Wisdom
By Graham Moore and Peter J. Fiduccia
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The Little Red Book of Hunter’s Wisdom has words to live by for any outdoors enthusiast who enjoys a weekend in the woods or a relaxing Sunday on the lake. Whether you gobble it all up in one day or enjoy it over your lifetime, the wisdom in this book will last forever.
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The Little Red Book of Hunter's Wisdom - Graham Moore
Copyright © 2011, 2017 by Jay Cassell and Peter Fiduccia
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.
ISBN: 978-1-61608-393-9
Cover design by Tom Lau
Cover photo credit: iStockphoto
Print ISBN: 978-1-5107-1900-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5107-1905-7
Printed in China
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Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Introduction
part one ORIGINS AND METHODS
1 The Past
2 The Joys of Hunting
3 Skills
part two WHAT WE HUNT AND WHY
1 Game Animals
2 Waterfowl and Turkeys
3 Whitetail Deer
4 Big Game
5 Upland Birds
6 Africa
part three LOGIC OF HUNTING
1 Why We Hunt
2 The Essence of Hunting
3 Afield
4 Etcetera
Works and Authors Quoted
Notes on Selected Authors
Index
• Peter Fiduccia with bull moose, Newfoundland.
Preface to the Paperback Edition
It’s been more than five years since the hardcover edition of this book was published. Much has happened in the world of hunting literature in that time. My coauthor, Peter Fiduccia, came out with a practical and information-filled book about deer hunting, titled, aptly enough, Whitetail Tactics. Turns out Peter is working on another whitetail book right now, one that takes the tactics in his last book to a new level of expertise. When it comes to reading about deer hunting knowledge, you can’t top Fiduccia.
Skyhorse, which publishes Peter’s books, has come out with a host of other new hunting books in the past five years. One of my favorites, by longtime friend Thomas McIntyre, is titled Augusts in Africa: Safaris into the Twilight: Forty Years of Essays and Stories. According to Diana Rupp, editor of Sports Afield magazine, Whether you’ve watched the sun set over the African savanna over a sundowner after a day of hunting or have only dreamed of doing so, the beautifully written stores in Thomas McIntyre’s new book will plunge you directly into the magic of the Dark Continent.
Or, as Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Caputo says on the back cover, Only a writer of McIntyre’s caliber can make our most intriguing continent come so alive.
There’s much more, of course. From the Shooter’s Bible and Gun Trader’s Guide, two annual Skyhorse staples, to tactical books ranging from crossbow hunting (Joe Byers) to bear hunting (Douglas Boze) and waterfowl hunting (Tom Airhart) to more fine literature (Joel Spring’s The Ghosts of Autumn), the field of hunting literature is as rich and varied as the sport of hunting. In this little tome, you’ll get a taste of that variety—with quotes from the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas McGuane, Richard Ford, and E. Donnall Thomas. What better way to spend the off season than to curl up in a big old easy chair and read some of the best of the best.
Jay Cassell
Katonah, NY
Spring 2017
• Jay Cassell with a trophy buck in Michigan.
• Jay Cassell with Osceola gobbler, Lakeland, Florida.
Introduction
The Little Red Book of Hunter’s Wisdom is a compilation of thought-provoking quotes about hunting—some old, some recent, some by well-known people, some by everyday folks. Our intention is that, if you take them as a whole, they will give you an overview of what this great sport of hunting is all about.
Peter and I assembled these quotes—all 363 of them—from a myriad of sources: my personal library, Peter’s library, public libraries, websites, books lent to us by friends, the list goes on and on. When all is said and done, doing the research for this book was as much fun as actually assembling it. While the majority of the quotes are from books that Peter and I have read and remembered, many were taken from books that we researched—books that we knew about, but never had the chance to read. I knew, for example, that the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev had written about hunting in the nineteenth century; yet I had never read his Sportsman’s Sketches before. What a fine piece of literature, what remarkable powers of observation. I returned that book to my local library, in South Salem, New York, and made a mental note to borrow it again.
There are other books I plan to revisit, some that I read more than 25 years ago, some I’ve never read. What a pleasure it was to once again read The Leatherstocking Tales,
by James Fenimore Cooper, which I hadn’t looked at since high school. What joy I felt to open Hemingway’s Green Hills of Arica,
another book I hadn’t read in years.
Others I have read recently. Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books
have always been among my favorites: My father read them to me when I was a boy, and I did the same with my children. I continue to pick up the two volumes and read them from time to time. It’s always inspiring to read about the boy Mowgli, growing up with wolves; and the mongoose, Rikki-tikki-tavi, living with a human family and protecting them from Nag and Nagaina, the sinister cobras that inhabit the garden.
Some of the quotes in this book are from my mental library—passages I have read and remembered over the years, from stories I have enjoyed and related to. Lost,
by Burton Spiller, always struck a chord with me. What hunter hasn’t considered the consequences of getting lost deep in the woods, with daylight fading? The story took on special meaning to me when I became seriously turned around while deer hunting in Maine’s Allagash region in the late 1980s: The temperature was near zero, the sun had dropped behind Mount Katahdin, and I was lost. Like Spiller, I made mistakes—in my case, I didn’t trust my compass, and I set off in momentary panic, when I should have simply stopped and taken some time to calm down and think things through. Ultimately I did stop, and was able to figure out how to get back to camp.
Thomas McGuane’s Heart of the Game
has always meant something special to me, echoing my own feelings of the hunt. So has John Miller’s Deer Camp,
which reminds me of my own hunting club in New York’s Catskill Mountains, where 10 of us convene every November