Nash Buckingham

[DrakeDemon]

What is the best book to read from him? I never knew that much about him except he was a wealthy cotton farmer and excellent duck hunter. Just had a customer tell me about him, he said that Nash used to hunt with his uncle when he (my customer was a little boy). This guy is in his later 50's so that has been a while. He said that he has some old duck logs from the camp they used to hunt at and he said it was not unusual for a person to kill over a hundred ducks a day. I was just interested in him I have seen his books and was going to buy one just wanted to know if any of you have read any.

Thanks

[Hambone]

I would get all of the Nash Buckingham books I could find. I have read all of them and all are outstanding.

[teul2]

From what i hear "De Shootinest Gent'man and Other Tales" was his best book. But, i am going to buy all of them i can.
I am not much of a reader, but, i hear that the books are great.
I did read some excerpts from some of his books online, and it just makes you long for yesteryear.

There are several on Ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Nash-Buckingham-RAR ... dZViewItem

[teul2]

Or if ya want a real collectors item as well as a good set of books,
buy the boxed set.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Boxed-seven-book-se ... dZViewItem

[DrakeDemon]

I am not much of a reader either but the stories that I have heard from the "good ole days" like what he writes about is something that I would love to hear. Thanks for the info!!

[DrakeDemon]

Hey Teul check out Amazon!!! They have them for a lot cheaper

[sallymae]

read some over the holidays the writing style takes some time to understand but well worth the effort

[mudsucker]

Damn. A hundred birds? No wonder they had to go to limits!

[h2o_dog]

I never knew that much about him except he was a wealthy cotton farmer...

I don't think that is all true...wealthy maybe, but I gathered from reading his books that his father was either a banker or merchant in Memphis.

http://www.normantranscript.com/outdoor ... 30416.html

[Deltaduk]

to get a good overview of what Nash buckingham was all about you might want to check out" Nash Buckingham,Beaver Dam, and other hunting tales" written by Dr. William "chubby" Andrews ,it was my first book about Nash and it got me hooked.it has got lots of history and old photos.

[Seem too Xtrema2 you?]

I hunted this past weekend at Nash's old hunting camp in/near Slovak, Arkansas (northeast of Stuttgart), called the Greenbriar. I stood right next to the bench he and Mr. John Olin (founder of Winchester Arms) used to sit on in a hole called "the 410 hole". They only allowed the use of 410 ga shotguns in this particular hole, and as close as the ducks came in this narrow cut-out of timber, I can honestly say that even a 410 was overkill. You can slam their butts with that pea-shooter, and your shoulder thanks you for it

*although after a day, I was ready to get my 12 ga 3.5" shells back out. I only shoot 3.5" cause they aint come out with 4" yet

[JMallard]

Nash's books are great. My dad got me to read my first one when I was proably 13 years old. We were lucky enough to buy one of those collections a while back off ebay. It is worth the money. As far as Nash being rich. I think he grew up pretty well off, but the depression took a hit on his family, and from there he lived a writers life. Got to do a lot of great things but passed away not that well off. I beleive the gun he used is in teh Duck Unlimited or Browning museum. Beuwhomp I think he how is spelled. Find the Shootest Gentlemen and read it first, Ole Miss is really good as well.

[crackhead]

Xtrems 2 how has greenbriars season so far, if you dont mind me asking. Im in a club just south of stuttgart and we hadnt killed jack out of our timber this year!

[DrakeDemon]

Thanks for the info guys, I was just talking the other day with one of my customers and he was telling me more tells about him. His family used to own a lot of land around Beaver Dam so that is where he grew up and came to know these things. I probably understood him wrong about the cotton farmer thing. I am trying to talk him into seeing the old log that he has from the camp. Not sure what the name of it was. He said Nash would ride the train down from memphis and hunt at the camp. This must have been pre-depression, because he described the camp as really nice for those days. But yes he said that the hunting was great. He said he was only 7 or so, therefore he did not get to hunt with him but he loved to go and visit and listen to the stories.

Thanks for the info I am watching several books on ebay now

[teul2]

I beleive the gun he used is in teh Duck Unlimited or Browning museum. Beuwhomp I think he how is spelled.

A little history on Bo Whoop.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id ... type=story

The best-known gun in waterfowling history may be "Bo Whoop," a 12-gauge magnum double-barrel owned by famed writer Nash Buckingham. Buckingham was a respected authority on shooting and hunting.

In 1921, Western Cartridge Company president John Olin sent him an Askins-Sweeley magnum 12-gauge to field test the company's new Super-X shotshells. Buckingham liked the gun so much he commissioned Philadelphia gunmaker Bert Becker to build one for him just like it.

The shotgun Becker crafted to Buckingham's specifications was constructed on a Fox frame with 32-inch barrels, which were overbored to deliver a 90-percent pattern of copper-coated 4s at 40 yards. Nash's good friend Col. Harold P. Sheldon called the gun Bo Whoop because of its distinctive hollow report.

Buckingham was riding back to town with a man named Clifford Green following a Dec, 1, 1948, duck hunt near Clarendon, Ark., when a pair of game wardens stopped the men and checked their licenses and ducks.

Bo Whoop was laid on the fender of Green's car after one of the wardens looked at the gun, and Buckingham didn't notice it was missing until they had driven several miles away.

Despite an exhaustive search by game wardens, police and hunters, and ads placed with local newspapers and radio stations, Buckingham never saw the gun again.

I believe (in other words don't quote me on that) that it was found in some old man's house in either Illinois or Indiana just a few years back. Apparently the man was in MS on a hunting trip, found the gun on the side of the road, and left for home, never hearing the radio and newspaper ads offering the reward for the missing gun.
As to its current whereabouts, i do not know.