Mike, I second Bodio and his outdoors generalism, guns, dogs, books, etc. While working the dogs this weekend on released birds, on a coveyrise we had a Coopers nail a quail in mid-air and glide off with it. Gil
Bodio is down to earth, writes and lives like a gun bum, like his pal John Gierach, the trout bum who lives in a trailer that would make Fred Sanford barf, but fly fishes with pre-fire Leonard, Grangers and Paul Young rods and Hardy and Walker fly reels- But Bodio doesn't have a proof reader- he got the intro date wrong on the Model 21- but, as he likes Model 12's, as does Gough Thomas, I will forgive him and his publisher for that error- what the hay- what's 10 years anyway??
