Shooting Books

Great historical detail. McIntosh at his best. Probably more information
than anyone would ever need to know about one of Americas' great icon shotgun builders of the last century.

Mr. McIntosh knows his guns. This book contains everything one would want to know about Ansley Fox's masterpieces, and some more. Where the author comes short is the non-gun-related subjects. For example, claiming that Russia went to war with Serbia in WW1,when they were on the same side: describing the Fox car engine as a V-6, when it was an in-line 6, as it is clearly shown in illustrations, incidentally; and referring to an early A. H. Fox patent on "Car Brakes" as automobile-related, when it is, in fact, an invention for a railway vehicle component. Minor points, perhaps, and certainly nothing to do with the excellent description of the "finest guns in the world".

As an owner of a Fox, I have been unable to find any information that would provide a background on the company, as well as the different models produced. This book will give you that and much more, including great info on Ansley Fox and his other contributions to the auto industry, etc. The book is great reading.

Concise and pleasing to read, this book is a colorful account of the life and guns of Ansley H. Fox. McIntosh obviously spent many hours of research, tracking down important details which illustrate what drove Fox to create "The finest gun in the world". These details are woven together to provide an informative resource for research and an interesting read for the double gun enthusiast. Included are original sketches of patented designs, technical expertise and insight, beautiful color photographs, and an easy to follow paper trail to help identify an antique Fox.

This is a great source of information on wildcat and improved cartridges. It covers the gamit on bullets, bore capacities, pressures and many other sometimes forgotten aspects of shooting.
I found this book a very helpful and enlightening source of information.

Invaluable information on where modern cartridges came from. This book will settle a lot of bets on which cartridges were descended from what and when. Of particular interest to me were the chapters on what constitutes 'killing power' and the straight scoop on headspacing, pressure, wind drift, etc. You gotta read the sections on sub-caliber rounds in Vol. II. They bagged everything including bear with wildcat .17 caliber!!! Highly recommended!

I think it is so good that I have had a rifle built arround a wildcat cartidge after reading a friends copy of these books. It remains to me one of the most comprehensive sources of information on the history and understanding of cartidges that I have read to date. My only slight criticism is the lack of scale cartidge diagrams with dimensions.

There are Vol 1 and Vol 2 of this book. I've never seen a book before with this detailed informations. I bought this books a few years ago, but I can say that I've a look into these eyery weeek until now. Hope you understand my "english".

This was a great book that is not so much about sports, but of a country's passion for their culture and the sports that are part of their culture. Made me want to take in a hurling match or a Gaelic football tilt. You will enjoy the read.

good book. the author takes in the romantic side of the GAA but also sees the faults and future hurdles that the GAA will face in coming years. worth a read.

Reviewed by Richard Blake for Reader Views (2/08)

To get background information and interviews for his "Ireland's Professional Amateurs," award-winning journalist, Andy Mendlowitz toured Ireland for eight months to observe and record the story of a sport season at it its purest.

This is a behind-the-scenes story of The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), of Gaelic Football, a combination of the elements of soccer and rugby, and the game Hurling. Hurling is an Irish sport played with a stick similar to ice hockey. Andy described the game this way: Gaelic football was physical and with the players not wearing pads, trouble followed. Hard shoulder-to-shoulder contact led to violent collisions. Heads banged and bodies got slammed to the ground.

These games often attract crowds as large as 80,000. The athletes train as professionals but maintain full-time jobs outside of the sports arena to pay support their families. According to Andy, GAA both created and reflected community. GAA fans had two loyalties-- to the club team and to the inter-county squad. Mendlowitz provides several enlightening references within the various chapters of the financial underwriting of the GAA organization and their investments.

From the early playoffs in February through April to the finals in September and October, Andy followed the teams from Clare, Mayo, Leitrim, Kerry, and Galway Counties to Derry in Northern Ireland and the cities of Cork and Dublin.

I personally enjoyed Andy's word pictures and colorful detailed descriptions of the Irish countryside as he traveled from the rural parishes to the large cities of Belfast, Dublin, and Cork. I was fascinated as he gave me a new appreciation of Ireland's culture, folklore, superstitions, history, and economics. He also gave me a new understanding of the difficulties being faced in Northern Ireland.

To provide the background information Mendlowitz wanted for his story he stayed with players and their families. He became involved in their personal lives and identified with the loyalty they feel for their teammates, their fans, and their country.

Mendlowitz writes in a fast-moving, journalistic style that reveals his own passion for sports, his fascination with the sports, the games themselves, with the individual team members, their coaches, and their fans. His love for travel, new adventures in learning and a love for life all come through in "Ireland's Professional Amateurs." This is sports writing at its finest.

What John Grisham does for American football in Italy in They Play for Pizza, Andy Mendlowitz does for Ireland's national sports, except that Andy's Ireland's Professional Amateurs is non-fiction.

This book is an account of the author's eight months in Ireland following the Gaelic football and hurling seasons. He traveled to a dozen cities, lived in players' family's homes, shared successes and losses, and soaked up the nationalistic feelings the games brought to the teammates, their county and the many enjoying enduring fans.

Irelans's Professional Amateurs is more than a sports book - it is also a travel log of Ireland's rich culture, and a history book of the great country.

Andy tells a story of the pride and joy of the fans in watching the distinctively special Irish sports and how it transcends the sports playing field to the pride in their local county and their Gaelic background.

The players are all amateurs practicing hard and heavy after work so they could win the Sunday game for their county. And then they are back at work on Monday at their jobs as teachers, accountants, lawyers, civil servants and factory workers. No time to recover from their injuries which seem more plentiful than they should be for an amateur sport, to back to their planning and practices for the next weekend's game.

The book is written in a fast paced journalistic style that grabs your attention from the first page to the last. It draws out individual stories of many players and the pride and sacrifices they make to play the game.

The romantic film A Knight's Tale was shot in Prague and here receives its own book which blends a 24-page color photo album of scenes with the shooting script for the film. Any fan of the movie will relish the complete presentation.

A Knight's Tale. I haven't actualy seen the movie, but I have read the script. It's amazing!! It is funny, interesting, romantic and clever. It tells the story of William Thatcher(Heath Ledger), who is a peasant and the son of a thatcher. When the Knight that William is under the employment of, suddenly dies right before he is supposed to joust, William must joust in his place. Although only himself, and his two friends Wat and Roland, know that it is him jousting and not the real night. You must be of noble blood to compete. Suprisingly, William wins and finds that he is a natural at jousting. He decides to go to a big jousting tournament in a few weeks, under the alias of Sir Ulrich Von Lichtenstein. Wat and Roland help train him and get him ready to joust, and they go to the tournament. There William sees the girl of his dreams, Jocelyn (Shannon Sassomon), and will do anything to win her heart. When he's jousting, he beats everybody there except Count Adhemere(the "bad guy" in the movie). William swears that he will beat Adhemere next time he jousts him. The plot goes on, there are some interesting twists and you meet some more neat characters. This is a really great movie, and this script is easy to read. You will LOVE "A Knight's Tale"!! Don't miss it!!

Written by the screenwriter and director of "A Knight's Tale" this book provides a fascinating insider's look at the film's creation. The 24 page photo album includes rare candid shots of the film's cast and crew.

The story is a classic underdog tale with likeable characters. I particularly enjoyed reading the scenes that were ultimately not included in the film. Although I have watched the movie several times... these passages added a depth to the characters that made kept the storyline fresh for me.

This was an awesome movie that I absolutely loved, so of course, I had to buy and read the screen play. Brian Helgeland was a brilliant author to create such a wonderful and fun script that everyone could enjoy. It was one of the funniest movies I ever saw and the script was also, undoubtedly hilarious. This story has it all: action, comedy, and romance. A story to please all.

The author is, as it happens, an aquaintence of mine. In fact, I bought his .470 Nitro Express Double rifle, of which he speaks of in the book. I took a buffalo with it in Tanzania, a trip he was kind enough to advise me greatly on prior to arranging my safari. I have been an avid reader of African hunting books for years, from the early classics to contemporary authors and Bruce's book is as good as any you will find. He gives, in fact, much inside info on how a safari outfit actually works, rather than the usual thrilling adventures one ordinarily reads about. His insight on the political situation in Zim is also fascinating. I would highly recommend this book, it is also well-illustrated with the author's photographs. I am delighted to have an autographed edition as a gift from the author, and as he notes at the end, I'm taking great care of his trusty .470 for him!

I was impressed by this authors forthright style. What a page turner. He made me feel as though I were right there in zim with him. I'll be looking for his next book with anticipation, I haven't enjoyed a book this much since Elmer Keith!

I found this book very interesting, from the way the author writes, to the interesting views into what happens "behind the scenes" in the safari business. I found interesting the work that goes on with problem animals and the detailed accounts of tracking game before the clients arrive and after the shot is fired. I am not a big hunter but found it very interesting. I have already recommended it to some of my friends that hunt more often because I know they will enjoy it.

I bought this book for my husband, who is a hunter, while I most definetly am not. He couldn't put the book down, and after he finished I thought I would read a page or two.
I found I couldn't put it down either, and while the hunting didn't interest me I found so much more in the book to enjoy.
The author brings to life the people and places of Zimbabwe, and I began to care a great deal about the people he met and wrote of.
The writing is fast paced, exciting, and leaves one wishing there were more. So much so that I'm considering joining my husband on his next African safari.

If you are a deer hunter-buy this book! The short stories about the 40 greatest deer of all time and photos of these beasts are enough to make the heart of the most seasoned deer hunter thump with buck fever. Since my purchase of this book, I have bought three others for my three lucky hunting buddies. What a book!

Anyone who has the "fever" will love this book. Some of the stories in this book are almost fable like. If you like this book, check out World Record Whitetails for an even more in depth look at large bucks through the past century.

This book is great. The stories behind each magnificent animal makes you feel like you were there on the hunt. Very insightful info on the Big Bucks that have been made famous. I am looking forward to the second book Legendary Whitetails II. You won't be disappointed with this one. My hat is off to Dick Idol!!!

Reading this book was enlightening. I came away with the realization that what happened to these people can happen to anyone. Most of the people in the book were ordinary people that just went out hunting. Some were "trophy Hunters" but many were just subsistence meat hunters that were out looking for food to feed their families. Many of them would typically have been happier shooting a nice young fork horn or a doe.

Anyone that is a Whitetail deer hunter would enjoy this book thoroughly. I could not put it down once I started reading it. I can't wait for volume two.

As a traditional bowhunter, I found Dr. Thomas' stories to be not only informative but delightfully entertaining. He brings out not only the adventure of the hunt but the ethics of the sport. He has taken us to places that few will be able to go and made us see them through the eyes of a hunter and naturalist. He shows us that it is the hunt that matters, not the harvest. His ethical approach to our sport is a lesson to all who bowhunt. I can not recommend this book more highly. Whether you hunt with modern Hi-Tech equipment or carry a stick bow this book is required reading

Lonbows in the Far North by E. Donnall Thomas
Ethics and good taste, intelligence,knowledge and a special style of writing makes this book a winner on short stories of his observations,endurance and good humour. He doen't just want to be out there killing everything is sight. His anticipation starts from when the boots go on. Every shoot is not successful in a trophy,but it is award winning in the enjoyment of his pursuit.

Typical fantastic writing of Don Thomas. Very few authors can actually bring you on the adventure with them as it happens and Thomas does it again. Get this book!

This far outshines the vast majority of modern hunting literature. I love the fact that not every story ends with a successful kill.

If you've seen the film enoughto be fiarly familiar with it's structure and narrative,this script will be a revelation.As stated in the title,this is a "shooting script",the original version submitted to the producers at the onset of the film's production,before the actors and director started fiddling with it.There are many,many scenes and passages here that greatly clarify the direction of the story and provide crucial motivations and psychological subtexts that you may miss in the completed film.However,scriptwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaczewski provide insight into this in the fantastic forward to the script,in the process giving a fascinating glimse into all the labirynthine exigencies involved in getting an original spark of insiration into the multiplex.They explain the step-by-step process of telling Kaufman's story-what to put in,what to leave out,how to handle certain aspects of his life,shaping the messy,complicated,and open-ended events of his career into something resembling a coherent,three-act drama.Ultimately,they decided-wisely-to treat the film as Andy would have,to let his art and performances define the film,just as they defined his life,and to use a constantly shifting base of perspective to keep the audience on thier toes,a brilliantly executed exercise in what-is-real and what-isn't.If you loved the film,this script provides an essential companion that will give you a new appreciation for it,but even if you're not particularly fond of it,or even Andy Kaufman hiomself,this is still a fascinating look at the creative process,and how it holds up throughout the production of a film.Highly recommended.

"Man on the Moon" has to be on my top three best screenplay list for 1999-2000. It's a great screenplay with great words and conversations. I love it and I'm sure you will too.

WOW! This is a GREAT example of a shooting script, something that was very different before the movie, and was molded into a more "managable" form through shooting and editing.

But is managable a better thing? Scott and Larry are great screenwriters, and crafted a great screenplay here. However, Milos Forman (the director) took the movie and made it into something not as personal as it could have been. Oh well.

But this is why shooting scripts that are actually the original script before any shooting ever took place are important (you hearing this American Beauty?). To show us how a screenplay can change when it goes from paper to celluloid.

Read this screenplay to see what the movie could have been like :)

As an aspiring screenwriter, it's a beautiful thing when two talented writers put out a screenplay for an incredible movie that looks as good as it is. None of that reformatted junk, this is the actual script reproduction. And, as for the content, it couldn't be better. There are parts different from teh movie, which aren't necessarily better, but add more insight to the life of comic genius Andy Kaufman.

Puts the history of hunting in perspective for everyone. When you're done reading it, you understand why people hunt. You also understand why people are just as interested in hunting today as they have been throughout time. I would encourage hunters and non-hunters to read the book, as there is much to be appreciated by both groups. In fact, I would encourage re-reading it from time to time. It has that quality of good literature in that it reveals something new and interesting each time it is read.

This little book goes to the heart of why we do what we do.I have always known that hunting does not make sense money-wise.Here is an in-depth explanation as to the reasons behind it. If people as a whole could understand that you are only doing things are right and natural,I feel like that would go a long way to getting the Bambiest off our backs.I have seen in other places that this book is a good one to re-read and I could not agree more.No hunters library should be without this.

Ortega y Gasset brings philosophical rigor and logic to the consideration of hunting. In a powerful counterblast to muddled, emotion-driven, anthropomorphic, confused, sentimental arguments - one can't call them "ideas" - OyG clarifies the core questions and quandaries, and gives a sound philosophical foundation for the defense - indeed, the celebration -of the hunting imperative that 21st century urban man sublimates or ignores at his environmental and spiritual peril.

Ortega delves into the art of hunting, and gets to the root of the matter. Both the nature of human, and of animal are examined. Be forewarned, this is heavy duty philosophy, not just an article on where to hang a tree stand. Ortega wrote in the early twentieth century, and so some will think his ideas are dated, and that we know much better now. This gives rise to the thought that humans change rapidly. Ortega's work stands because we do not substantially change over just a hundred or even a thousand years. This is why Shakespear and the Bible are still applicable, and why Ortega's Meditations On Hunting still stands. The act of hunting has changed over the centuries, to evolve into sport. Ortega delves into this also, and his answer to our inner questions, and the current questions of animal rightists is so clear and distilled that it shines in one's brain. It is rare to find one so clear in academia.

My brother Steven loves to hunt and fish, so every year for his birthday I send him a book. Steven's review: "This is one of the best books I have ever read ..."

Southerns do have a lovely way of using language. Maybe there is a drop more compassion in the cool creek waters.

Good friends gave me this book when I graduated high school more years ago than I like to realize. I have read, re-read, and re-re-read it, and given a copy to my grandson in hopes of instilling in him some of my love of the outdoors.

The first time I read this book, and most of the subsequent times as well, I laughed until tears rolled down my face. Babcock eloquently paints word pictures of hunting and fishing experiences in the deep South of the early 20th century.

The reader will notice a much higher quality of writing than is commonly found in outdoor magazines today. Today, few college professors admit to such politically incorrect pastimes as hunting and fishing. The modern reader does need to remember the time frame in which these stories take place. Babcock was a product of his environment, and while he speaks fondly of Uncle Sessions and others eligible for membership in the NAACP, he doesn't use the politically correct terminology of today.

I have cherished and retold -- with attribution -- several stories contained in this book, and just remembering them can take 10 points off my blood pressure.

If you like to hunt and fish, or like someone who does, this book is an excellent choice.

A must for every gentleman bird hunter, fisherman, or dog owner/. Dr/. Babcock tells of his pursuit of Bob White, fishing for breem, and his fascination with as well as tribulations over bird dogs/. Humor permeates stories about the perfect quail gun, ownership of the near-perfect hunting dog, the secret weapon of breem fishing-- the catawba worm and the virtues of the old cross rail fences/

Havilah Babcock loved bird hunting in the south.

35 of his stories are a treasure of tales by a man who is genuine in his approach to hunting and fishing.

No matter how many times I reread his stories, he makes me feel I am there in the field beside him.