Pertinent Trivia Question #5

[Outdoor Writer]

More authors for you, Fred Gipson or Stephen Crane, Old Yeller and The Red Badge Of Courage are classics, I just don't know if they hunted. The hunter/writer/gunsmith is killing me, once you give us the answer on that one I will have to read at least one of his books, just so I won't forget, and if I already have I am not going to be happy with my guesses so far, any more hints on any of them would be appreciated. I don't know if you can tell but I really enjoy these questions.

 

None of the above.

 

More clues:

 

#1 -- He also was involved with developing several wildcat calibers.

 

#5 -- When I was a kid, I had a collection of Classic "comic" books. This author had a couple. One of his works was a very well received movie a few years ago.

 

 

-TONY

[KGAINES]

More authors for you, Fred Gipson or Stephen Crane, Old Yeller and The Red Badge Of Courage are classics, I just don't know if they hunted. The hunter/writer/gunsmith is killing me, once you give us the answer on that one I will have to read at least one of his books, just so I won't forget, and if I already have I am not going to be happy with my guesses so far, any more hints on any of them would be appreciated. I don't know if you can tell but I really enjoy these questions.

 

None of the above.

 

More clues:

 

#1 -- He also was involved with developing several wildcat calibers.

 

#5 -- When I was a kid, I had a collection of Classic "comic" books. This author had a couple. One of his works was a very well received movie a few years ago.

 

 

-TONY

 

I am now drawing a blank, maybe someone else knows.

[Outdoor Writer]

I am now drawing a blank, maybe someone else knows.

 

 

1. Argueably the most well traveled and greatest sport hunter of the 20th Century. He has 152 African trophies listed in Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game. He also has 54 trophies from Asia listed and 26 from North America, for a total of 232 in the book. He was the Weatherby Award winner in 1960. Also was an avid handgun metallic silhouette shooter.

 

5. Many of his classics were part of a series that included five works. The movie I mentioned was the 2nd of that series and considered his best work of all. You would probably recognize at least three of them by title. One character, known by various nicknames, was consistent throughout, and one of those nicknames was revived in the movie MASH. He also wrote tales about the sea from in his home in New York state.

 

Now, if you can't get them from those clues, you're hopeless. -TONY

[DesertBull]

1. Ackley?

[Outdoor Writer]

1. Ackley?

 

Nope. But good guess, nonetheless. -TONY

[Outdoor Writer]

1. Ackley?

 

Nope. But good guess, nonetheless. -TONY

 

So has everyone given up? Keith??? -TONY

[KGAINES]

Tony I am drawing a complete blank, I am trying to think of books in that era that I might have read or authors who were well known. I am patiently awaiting the answers you will give us shortly.

[Outdoor Writer]

Tony I am drawing a complete blank, I am trying to think of books in that era that I might have read or authors who were well known. I am patiently awaiting the answers you will give us shortly.

 

Well since it appears the interest has waned, here are the last two answers.

 

1. Elgin Gates -- He wrote Trophy hunter in Asia, Trophy hunter in Africa and The Gun Digest Book of Metallic Silhouette Shooting. He was alo instrumental in developing several wildcat handgun calibers as a result of his interest in silhouette shooting. The quote was from Trophy Hunter in Asia.

 

5. James Fenimore Cooper -- author of the Leatherstocking Tales that included in order of publication: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer. The quote came from The Pioneers.

 

The main character of the Leatherstocking Tales was Natty Bumpo, usually referred to as Deerslayer or Hawkeye, the latter of which was the Mash clue -- Hawkeye Pierce! In The Last of the Mohicans, which was considered his best work, Cooper used Poe as the name for that character but went back to Bumpo for his subsequent works. -TONY