Chessbum

Libraries are a sore subject with me. I have gone looking for archery, bow hunting (the ones listed here for example) and fishing books and zip nada none. Now I also look for chess book and there are a few lousy outdated ones but if you look in the same section there are a ton of books on gambling,magic,horoscopes,movie videos for rent etc. all in a brand new big artsy building payed for by my taxes. All show but nothing of use to me except the ten cent photo copier if it even works. We went to New York City a few years back and my wife wanted the kids to see the big main library there so we went. Now the first big beautiful doors we went though where displays of historical documents so we enter with our kids hoping to educate them and boy did we. Now this is big money expensive wood and glass displays for all to see so I start looking at the stuff with my kids and I was shocked as most of it was sexual pictures from the sixties of stuff I can not describe here. Needless to say I told the kids it is time to leave the library which we did. I do not think most people know what is being shoved upon us through the US Library system under art and culture but hunting and fishing topics is not among the garbage I saw there. I get very upset at this waste of money and think the system should get back to collecting all kinds of books not just the ones that the anti hunting liberal library system feeds us. Just had to get that off my chest.

Floxter

Pat, you're right - at least in the case of the drugstores in my area. Nary a hunting and fishing magazine in the entire place; but plenty of WWF, Hot Rod, and beauty mags. If they're merely catering to the customer, it doesn't speak too highly of the average person in my neck of the woods. Or maybe, as you suggest, some anti's have pressured them to remove the hunting & fishing materials. But I have to go to the bookstore to find Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, etc.

Jack

john nail

well, i was bored, so here's a few(just on Archery. I have tons on other subjects)
Witchery of arch
full set sylvan archer-signed by Glenn
adventures of Fred Bear
Whitetail tactics with recurves and LB
With stick and String
Making arrows the old way
Zen in the art of Archery
Field and target archery 1961
longbows in the far north
The Traditional way
Hunting with the bow and arrow-Pope
From the den of the old bowhunter
ten thousand years-history of archery-burke
medieval archer
Archery-reinhart and keasey
a thousand campfires-jay massey
lions in the path-white
American bowman review-1941
penn bowhunter's festival, the first 30 years
David goes to Greenland(with Art Young)
Instinctive shooting 2-asbell
trad archer's handbook-greenland
longbow country
Fred Bear Biography-Kroll
Become the arrow-ferguson
hunting with bow and arrow-laycock
hunting the hard way-hill
Tigerero-Siemel
Trad archery-fadala
60 years with the feathered shaft-pritchkites
bowhunting fireside tales
bows on the little delta-signed by glenn
The black arrow
Winds of change trad archery today
trailing a bear-munger
book of primitive archery- jay massey
some more titles, but I'm tired of writing........whew!

Tuffcity

Interesting comment on your local library. I just did a quick e-search of available titles at our local library and was pleasantly suprised to find:

34-hunting related books
11-books on archery- including one called "Archery Tackle-How to make it and use it"
4-strictly bowhunting books
plus several hunting videos.
The books covered stuff written anywhere from the 1920's to the late 1990's by people such as Capstick through D. Schuh.

Might just have to renew my library card...

RC

pat daily

Tuff- your research turned these up but I am sure you will be amused when you get there and try to find them. Let us know.
John- you must have thrown out the boob tube many mons ago! hahahaha
As far as the bookstores go I went to the one inour mall here in tupelo MS looking for anyhitng hunting related, found two magazines bottom shelf in back. But what was on the top shelf FRONT AND CENTER? GAY MALE the alternative lifestyle magazine. Needless to say that is the last dollar they will get from me.

Lilhunter

hunting related...

33 books on wild bird tracks, one book on extinct animals <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>!

Tuffcity

You're a bad man Lil! lol

Pat- I'd be suprised if most weren't there, we have a pretty fierce librarian (you've seen &quot;Conan the Librarian&quot; haven't you?) <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> But ya never know 'til ya check.

RC

Edited by - Tuffcity on 02/06/2002 00:11:19

Lilhunter

hmm....<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

john nail

Pat&gt; I have the same TV I bought 25 years ago! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Hobbes

I have read several different hunting books and am in the process of purchasing some on traditional archery. Thanks for the info.
If you want some reading that isn't archery, try the &quot;Left Behind&quot; series by Tim LaHaye. It can be found at any bookstore including WalMart.