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You have me thinking though. For me, maybe it IS more. Another aspect of hunting writers that has changed a little over the years is the emphasis today on guided hunting versus self-planned and executed hunting. I have never been too interested in guided hunts. I admit it. It might be heresy to state it, but honestly, I'd far rather take a spike bull elk I hunted on my own than a 6x6 somebody held my hand and walked me into. That is a personal thing entirely, because I suspect most fellows would disagree with me or even laugh at the statement. We shoot for meat and enjoyment and comradery and the use of our own ground or ground we intimately know or explore ourselves. Nothing compares to that IMO.

IMO, Boddington is the world's best writer on the hunting industry and as such he does a splendid job. But to me he is not the best writer about all hunting. Others, like old Francis Sell take the cake for me.

To me, Boddington reads like what I might expect to appear in print were somebody to hand a pen to the Cigar Store Indian.

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Agree with your statements regarding hunting on your own...I too much rather hunt on my own which is why I do exactely that whether in Alaska, Montana or wherever provided it is legal and I have access...however there are just some things you can't do on your own--hunting Dall sheep or Brown Bear in Alaska as one example... I plan to go after a Dall in the next few years and yes I will have to flip the bill for a guide--but honestly, it is also fun to share camp with those guys and pick up on their experiences they have had...

Africa is another example--one needs a PH -but some of the people I have met on different hunts have become true friends-- and that is worth the price of admission..

Ripp

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