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I'm back again, I can't leave this alone! Get a copy of Gordon MacQuerrie's book[s], read it and come back and post up what happens. I'm willing to bet you can see the sunrise, feel the sting of the sleet, smell the dog, maybe even feel the recoil from a high overhead shot - all from reading his work. Oh, I do love it! Gordon MacQuarrie: The Story of an Old Duck Hunter. http://www.gordonmacquarrie.com For a brief preview - I'm warning you, though, this could become habit forming! Edited by trapperP |
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Trapper, I've read most of MacQuarrie's works. Great reading! Probably worth far more than the time I spend online. Makes one think about what our kids are missing. I buy my son a at least one O'Conner, MacQuarrie, Hemmingway, Capstick, etc. type book every year for Christmas. RD
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I like MacQuarrie's works, I've got most of his books. Exploits with Mr. President (I think it was his 'father-in-law') were pretty good. Somehow I think that the individual needs to know how tough it was to start a car of the '40-'50 on a cold winter morning with snow falling. Remember that cranking noise and the prayers said hoping it would kick over. Today's kids (mine included) are of the digital computer age. You touch the key and it starts...no knowledge how to set the choke or pump the gas to get it to start without flooding. Things like the smell when you uncap the thermos bottle at 5 am, after you sweat poling a boat into the swamp. These old writers really knew how to express those things. Today the stories are more like "When my plane landed the outfitter and his attractive wife Peggy met me at the airport, after a hardy breakfast of quiche Lorraine, Ron my guide and I took an ATV the 300 yards into the beautiful concrete blind over a heavily filled food plot..... the ducks came in all morning". Tough for the MTV generation to know the simpler ways and the humor and adventure from those days. BEAR |
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I could hunt with you! |
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I was listening to C&W music in the car and the guy was singing about his dad's old car with a manual choke. Ask the next 30 year old (not my son...he was brought up right) "what's a choke?" Time moves on. Edited by BEAR |
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