Backcountry Book List
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
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🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
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Books: How to cultivate the patience necessary to weather those numbing periods of inactivity between explosions of hunting action.
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Ways to "consume" books, and the pros & cons of each:
- Traditional paper
- Tablets
- Audiobooks
Types of books:
- How-to resources
- Factual and fictional
- Pure knowledge, & pure entertainment
No. 1: Bear Hunting in Alaska, by Tony Russ
No. 2: Sheep Hunting in Alaska, by Tony Russ
No. 3: Haunted Mesa, by Louis L'Amour
No. 4: Alaska Yukon Trophies Won And Lost, by G.O. Young
No. 5: Death in the Long Grass, by Peter Hathaway Capstick
No. 6: The Last Stand of Fox Company, by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
No. 7: Man-Eaters of Kumaon, by Jim Corbett (Oxford Omnibus)
No. 8: The Shooting of Dan McGrew & Other Poems, by Robert Service
No. 9: Where the Lion Feeds, by Wilbur Smith
No. 10: Horn of the Hunter, by Robert Ruark
COMING UP: .338-caliber cartridges, ranging from the .338-06 to the magnum powerhouses.
Enjoy!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moyle for gold. |
| 0:07.4 | The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The northern lights have seen strange sights, but the strangest |
| 0:16.7 | they ever did see was that night on the margin of Lake Labarge, I cremated Sam McGee. |
| 0:25.2 | Welcome to the show today, folks. |
| 0:27.2 | That was a little piece of one of my favorite Robert Service poems. |
| 0:31.6 | And today we're going to talk about great reading material. As a |
| 0:37.1 | backcountry hunter, you need to generate and cultivate the ability to focus |
| 0:42.1 | intensely, yet be infinitely patient. |
| 0:46.0 | You have to be both incredibly active and numbingly inactive at times. Books help. I'm Joseph von Benedict and this is the |
| 0:57.8 | backcountry hunting podcast. Now books are wonderful resources both in the backcountry and during your down time in between |
| 1:06.3 | hunts and scouting trips. |
| 1:08.4 | This topic was suggested by a listener named Joseph Yorkovich who emailed in. You can do that via the website or simply |
| 1:17.6 | at Joseph at backcountry podcast.com and he requested a list of recommended books. This is a great suggestion. |
| 1:27.0 | Now before getting started on that list though, it's worth noting that there are several ways to consume books in the backcountry. |
| 1:37.0 | First, of course, there's good old paper, printed material, right? |
| 1:42.0 | Now it's heavy. That's one drawback. It's susceptible to moisture. That's another one. |
| 1:48.0 | If it rains on it, it's going to get wet and kind of fragile, right? |
| 1:54.4 | It gets damaged easily. |
| 1:56.0 | It's going to be warped and messed up when it dries out. |
| 1:59.7 | So if you carry a proper printed book in the backcountry, |
| 2:03.6 | carry it in a zip lock. |
| 2:05.9 | On the plus side, books don't require power. |
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