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| | Mostly tailfeathers: Stories about guns and dogs and birds and other odds and ends |  | Author: Gene Hill
Publisher: Winchester Press
Category: Book
Buy Used: $6.90
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 5453266
Pages: 162
ISBN: 0876911718
EAN: 9780876911716
ASIN: 0876911718
Publication Date: 1975
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"This book is about hunting and fishing, but its more than that. Its about the animals and objects, the people, the attitudes, and emotions that make hunting and fishing important. Readers will identify themselves and friends in the delightful pages."-Western Outdoors
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 Classic sporting writer October 5, 2007
Gene Hill is a giant in the field of sporting writers. His short stories open a window to the not-so-distant past of hunting's glory days. His knack for getting into a hunters soul is uncanny.
 Captures the essence of hunting, fishing, and life May 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a collection of magazine articles written by Gene Hill in the early 70s about fishing, hunting, the outdoors, and life. The stories are short (4 pages or so), and several (or even the entire book) can easily be read in one short sitting. The stories are about the sights and sounds and images and smells of hunting and fishing and the pleasures of being outdoors. In my opinion, Hill has captured the sentimental essence of the joys of outdoor life in these stories. I agree with Hill that there is something special about being outside after a new snowstorm, and he is right on about the machinations that one must occasionally go through to bring a new shotgun or fishing rod past the wife! As I read these stories, it made me recall old fishing trips (and even old long-forgotten gear!), walks through the woods, and dogs who were good friends. I only give this book four stars for two reasons. First, the price is rather steep for a thin (162 page) book (although it is a nice hardbound). Second, as good as these stories are, they still fall well short of those of the master of this genre (Robert Ruark - check out `The Old Man and the Boy'). A good read though.
Mostly Tailfeathers September 21, 2002
This is the first Gene Hill book I have read. Although I enjoyed reading all of the hunting stories, Mr. Hill could have been writing about French poetry for all I care. His writing is that good. This book will have you laughing, thinking and probably hunting. I look forward to reading more Gene Hill.
Fond memories, sometimes even our own December 14, 2001
Gene Hill was one of my favorite writers and one of the first I ever began to follow. Field and Stream isn't much without him. This is a beautiful book. One of my favorite stories is "Things Homemade." Mr. Hill writes, "The men of the house thought nothing of being able to put the set back in a bucksaw, deliver a reluctant calf, spokeshave a hickory limb into an ax handle, and all in the same afternoon." If you'd like to remember those times, even if you never saw them, get this book.
Mostly delightful November 7, 2000
As the title indicates, stories of mostly birds and bird hunting in this book. As usual, Hill writes with a relaxed but concise style that makes the reading easy. I thoroughly enjoyed this one.
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