I'm no longer in the same state of fan worship for GBE that I was 40 years ago. That being said, I'm not sure that I would have started hunting grouse and woodcock--living in Pheasant Heaven Iowa as I did, where grouse weren't legal game until 1968 and woodcock a few years after that--if I hadn't read "The Upland Shooting Life". And that book also got me started keeping a hunting log, and caused me to buy my first sxs.