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Posted: 9/14/2010 8:52:55 AM EDT

for me:

Jack O'Connor

followed by
Skeeter Skelton

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:54:27 AM EDT

[#1]

I like Cooper, but I never got to read most of what the older guys wrote.

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:01:03 AM EDT

[#2]

Elmer Keith

Late edit: Skeeter was a great story teller and lots of fun but for cripes sakes , Keith was the man!

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:01:26 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Elmer Keith

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:01:57 AM EDT

[#4]

Skeeter

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:16:07 AM EDT

[#5]

Elmer Keith

Skeeter Skelton

Jeff Cooper

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:17:26 AM EDT

[#6]

Peter Capstick

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:35:15 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Elmer Keith

Skeeter Skelton

Jeff Cooper

Same here.

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:35:53 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Elmer Keith

Late edit: Skeeter was a great story teller and lots of fun but for cripes sakes , Keith was the man!

This

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:42:48 AM EDT

[#9]

Would Finn Aagaard be considered old school?

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:43:22 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Elmer Keith

Skeeter Skelton

Jeff Cooper

Same here.

Good choices.

Posted: 9/14/2010 11:36:36 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Would Finn Aagaard be considered old school?

I would say so. I liked him, Cooper, Keith, and Capstick.

Posted: 9/14/2010 11:38:56 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

for me:

Jack O'Connor

followed by

Skeeter Skelton

I really miss Reading Jack O Connor articles in Outdoor Life. I have all his books also ...

Posted: 9/14/2010 11:39:19 AM EDT

[#13]

Mel Tappan...

Posted: 9/14/2010 11:43:10 AM EDT

[#14]

Skeeter. O'Connor was a bit before my time. Cooper I could never warm to.

Posted: 9/14/2010 11:45:18 AM EDT

[#15]

Bill Jordan.

Posted: 9/14/2010 11:47:30 AM EDT

[#16]

Jordan, Tappan, Capstick.

Cooper spread too much crap to be taken seriously.

Posted: 9/14/2010 11:48:07 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Elmer Keith

Skeeter Skelton

Jeff Cooper

Gets my vote too....

Posted: 9/14/2010 11:54:56 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Cooper spread too much crap to be taken seriously.

I bet he'd be a pisser to have a few beers with, though.

Posted: 9/14/2010 11:56:30 AM EDT

[#19]

Elmer Keith, Jack O'Connor, Townsend Whelan

Posted: 9/14/2010 12:54:10 PM EDT

[#20]

Reading Gun Rags for the author's opinion is the same as reading Playboy for the articles.

Posted: 9/14/2010 12:58:34 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Reading Gun Rags for the author's opinion is the same as reading Playboy for the articles.

I'd rather hang out and have beer with Bill Jordan than you.

No offense.

Posted: 9/14/2010 1:01:22 PM EDT

[#22]

Cooper was too much of a class monger for me even at a young age.

Keith was dead.

But what I really liked was the old newsprint copies of Machine Gun News I used to find.

Posted: 9/14/2010 1:17:26 PM EDT

[#23]

Bob Milek.

Posted: 9/14/2010 1:22:12 PM EDT

[#24]

George Mason

Posted: 9/14/2010 1:30:55 PM EDT

[#25]

Based on personal reading I say Capstick, Bob Milek, and Ross Seyfried

Posted: 9/14/2010 1:36:10 PM EDT

[#26]

Elmer Keith, Skeetr Skelton and Jeff Cooper.

Posted: 9/14/2010 1:40:58 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Bob Milek.

+1

Back when I used to go hunting more I really enjoyed his writing.

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