• A Hunter's Fireside Book

  • Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns
  • By: Gene Hill
  • Narrated by: Ray Childs
  • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (293 ratings)

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A Hunter's Fireside Book

By: Gene Hill
Narrated by: Ray Childs
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In the introduction to A Hunter’s Fireside Book Gene Hill sets himself up as an everyman, someone who you could trade a little bourbon whiskey back and forth with, someone "who’s a lot like you". Ray Childs, who performs this audiobook, has the voice of this person; the warm and gravelly voice of a person you could sit in a duck blind with and trade tales over cold coffee. Hill has a way of picking out the details of the joys of a hunter who might more aptly be called a naturalist or outdoorsman. If you find yourself, like Hill, working too much and yearn for a campfire and a good talk about the outdoors and the simple pleasures of a fine shotgun you’ll have a good friend in this audiobook.

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The legendary American outdoor writer’s finest collection. For decades, Gene Hill’s articles and books have captured the spirit of the outdoors in a way that inspires and entertains millions of readers. A Hunter’s Fireside Book captures the essence of the life of a sportsman and explores the full spectrum of the hunter’s experience: sunrises in the duck blind, an unforgettable hunter’s moon, the camaraderie of men who know the pleasures of being wet and cold and a little bit lost.

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Beyond acquiring meat, this is why we go afield

Gene Hill is a master in delivering on the passion that is behind every sunrise, hooked fish on the run, decoying migratory birds, whitetails sneaking through woodlots, elk bugles echoing over canyons, and the hair-raising feeling of treading on the same ground as dangerous game. His stories grip your soul making you broadly smile one moment while choking up the next. If you can't explain why you hunt and fish, and perhaps it's because you just do, or maybe it's because of the emotions that Gene Hill tugs at so well.

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No Huntong Stories

It tells more about how they sneak guns around their wives and about drinking and shooting at the range. Very few stories on actual hunting, and when you do get one it is focused on how the man is smoking his pipe.

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Disappointing

If you think lying to and sneaking around your spouse is funny. If you believe you're wife or any woman is a ditz and only interested in fashion and house keeping and making you lunch. If you don't actually to hunt, but are really interested in the idea of and pretending like you hunt in the presence of others. Finally, if you are under the illusion that trap shooting is hunting. Then you will enjoy this book a hell of a lot more than I did.

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Not much about hunting

The author is more of a drinking, tie wearing, gun range yuppie. I am a hunter & spend a lot of time in the woods & have listened to better books more about being in the woods and hunting game. This book is focused more about accumulating guns & how to sneak them & going to the shooting range with his buddies around his wife. He drinks and smokes when he goes hunting, it's no wonder he doesn't have many stories about getting game. Wild life can see and smell him coming for miles. This book is not much hunting stories, but a lot of pipe smoking, bourbon, & how he constantly gets his guns modified or misses shots with his buddies. Likely because he sucks as a hunter. The narrator is too old school for my taste as well. He reads too slow (i set the settings to speed him up), & monotone. He's terrible at the punch lines at the end of a funny story. I would have given this one star but it got 2 because there were a couple of funny stories.

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Great.

Great book. One of my favorites. Listen to it over and over. Great for hunters. I recommend it to all

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a must read

great book for a newbie or and. oldie
you can always learn from this book

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this is what you have been looking for.

great story, writing and performance. I cannot recommend the book enough. Do yourself a favor and buy it.

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What a wonderful book

Charming witty nostalgic! This book was such a pleasure to listen to and the narrator was amazing! One of the few books I’ve gone back to listen again.

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Yearly Must-Read

I listen to this on my walks every year in the fall. Wonderful writing and the narration fits perfectly. Wish there were more audiobooks of Gene Hills books.

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Profoundly Exemplary

Not only does Hill capture the nostalgia, he captivates your imaginating with superb imagery.

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