Mostly Tailfeathers: Stories About Guns and Dogs and Birds and Other Odds and Ends

by Gene Hill

Book Overview

"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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087691167X
• ISBN13: 9780876911679
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Winchester Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Classic sporting writer

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.

Mostly Tailfeathers

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.

Mostly delightful

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.

Best of the Outdoor Writers

Mr. Hill had an unusual talent for conveying emotions and grassroots feelings surrounding his beloved outdoor shooting sports. The way he felt about his dogs, friends, family, and the time spent afield literally jump from the pages in a way that all outdoorsmen will relate to on a nearly spiritual level. This man loved the out-of-doors gunning sports and those of us who love and live the same will forever be blessed for Mr. Hill's unique ability to bring our own feelings of the sport to life in his wonderful pages. "It was so cold that morning and I had on so many layers of clothing that the only way to get into the truck was to fall over like a log ..." Many passages in this collection of short stories assembled from a Sports Afield magazine series are humourous to the point of outloud laughter and other pieces will have the reader quietly closing the book while holding back a tear. Many outdoor shooting sports enthusiasts will probably not be able to put this book down until it is completely read.

Great book .

I love it,Gene Hill was my favorite author (he passed away in May of 1997).The book is a mixture of laughter and some seriousness,and has a bit of information in it too.Read it,you'll like it even if you aren't a sportsman/woman.