Kindle version out of Jay Campbell's book Longbow: A Hunting Life - On holiday sale!

[Mark Baker]

Jay has a great way of weaving life into hunting, and is a gifted writer.   It's a good book, and fine addition to any bowhunters library.  He's a pretty decent musician as well!  Can't sing though...

[Jay Campbell JD]

Wow, what kind words, and a great reaction to the book! The first thing I need to do is direct everyone to Gene and Barry Wensel's site and the GREAT holiday sale they are having on Classics like Primal Dreams, Buckskin and Bone, and Come November! Gene has been a great mentor to me for almost 20 years now. Here's their site - go check it out!    Brothers of the Bow

The picture is of writer, guide and bowhunter Jay Massey, with me on the Moose John River just before he passed. That chapter in the book is "Last Run Down the Moose John". Jay also was a mentor for me very early on, as was (and is) Don Thomas, and Dan Quillian before he passed. There are also chapters about our time with Don and Dan.

Much of the adventure in the book comes from me being stupid, I have to admit - running rivers in Alaska without the right gear, climbing mountains in Hawaii without enough water, getting caught in mountain storms, lost in swamps, the list goes on. Others may be able to learn from my mistakes, as I do try to find the humor and meaning in my time in the woods, even when it goes badly. I'm not good at being outdoors and hunting - I just like it too much to quit.

Hey, also check out Mark Baker's new book!

Thanks to everyone for the interest. The book is $14.99 at    campbellsquest.com   In the morning we will have shipped all the weekend orders of signed and personalized books by Karen and me. Best, Jay and Karen Campbell
 

 

[alligatordond]

I am very fortunate to have hunted with Jay, Mark Baker and Don Thomas and consider them all friends. And I learned alot from them all....(and Mark is right about Jay's singing. )You will enjoy Jay's writing and I highly reccommend you read it.

[Karl Kortemeier]

I just finished this book, and it is a great read.  I think i finshed it in two sittings!  Lots of great stories from someone who can really captivate a reader with his writing style.  The stories are not about getting animals or technique (though there is some of that) but about the mistakes, disapointments, highlights, and adventures that hunting brings to us all and to our lives.  I really liked this one.

Thank you

[Craig Schoneberg]

I also finshed the book a week ago.  Really enjoyed it!!! Thank you.

[EZ]

My grandson Gage gave me the book "Longbow-a hunting life" he won at the TBOF spring shoot. I enjoyed it very much, as I have come to enjoy just about everything Jay writes these days. I will pass the book on so others might enjoy the adventures also. Thanks Jay!

[wapiti792]

OK bought two...one for me one for loaning  

[alligatordond]

ttt for my buddy Jay.

[matt schuster]

This is a great book.   Jay is one of those guys who could write a four page story about killing a squirrel in his back yard, and it would be a great read.   He knows how to put the emotions of the hunt on the page as well as any writer I have ever read.

[kestimator]

Thanks for making us aware of your book Mr. Campbell!  I will order a copy for myself.  Mr. Thomas made us aware of your story/journey through his writings.  Being a fan of his...I made it a point to read about you and to begin reading what you wrote.  Your approach to hunting and life is admirable!  I wish you and your lovely wife many wonderful years together celebrating life and the great outdoors!  Thanks for sharing your written words with us!!

Sincerely,
Kevin

[kestimator]

The website was easy to use.  I've got mine ordered via PayPal. Looking forward to receiving my copy in the mail  

[Jay Campbell JD]

Thank you everyone!! the books are piling up near Karen's computer to ship out ASAP once we both sign them! Please continue to let us know what you like and don't! here's a picture of Karen with a great 65# Hummingbird custom bow, her last bow before stepping up to the 70# OL Adcock for buffalo. The hummingbird was then a gift to the Reverend Scotty Bennett in Fairbanks, our river running and hunting partner, who just took it to Africa! Again, thank you all for the kind words. - Jay and Karen

[gregg dudley]

Ah...yet another picture of a lovely supermodel shooting a higher poundage bow than me...  

[Trout Guide]

Looking forward to reading about your adventures and the great pictures. I just ordered 2 copies,
Thanks

[Mark Normand]

Well after my friend David Tetzlaff's glowing praise, I'm gettin the book for my own stocking stuffer!

Thx David, hope you and fam have been well.

Mark

[Kc kreger]

Got a copy on order from your web site today.  Getting ready for a couple of surgeries and can not wait to get the book in my hands!

Thank you for it in advance!

K.C.

[Jay Campbell JD]

 Wow! The response has been tremendous. We shipped about 60 books in the last week, and are beginning to run out! Had to order another printing. Still on sale for $14.99! As of this morning, every order has been signed, endorsed, and shipped.    Thank you from Karen and me. Please continue to tell us what you like and don't as we are hard at work on the next book, a novel, "Archer's Paradox."  Picture is from the story "Red Sky at Night" in the book, about Karen's late night hunt and swamp search for this Central Florida Pig.

If you are from the Midwest, Dan Small has written a great review of Longbow for the Outdoor News Holiday Book buying guide.

Here's Dan Small's review: "Jay Campbell has been a musician, a cop, a paramedic, a firefighter, and a physician’s assistant. A practicing attorney, he directs organ procurement and transplant organizations throughout the U.S.
He has hunted with a longbow since the age of nine and over the past decade has pursued big game across several continents. In Longbow: A Hunting Life, Campbell recalls his beginnings as a hunter, how he left the sport and then rediscovered it when he life was coming unraveled:
“At the age of fifty, I quit my job and left my home. I took my longbow and my books and not much more. Friends said I had lost my senses. I might have. But the home fires had died and my life had to change. I moved to the mountains. I took back my senses. I started over.”
This remarkable book reveals Campbell’s deepest thoughts about life, family and the reasons he has hunted everything from wild hogs and alligators to Asian water buffalo. Months after successful cancer surgery, he accompanies his wife Karen on a grueling hunt in Australia as she becomes the first known woman to take a water buffalo with a longbow. He also reconnects with his youngest son Cody, who learns to love hunting wild hogs: “Hunting returned my son to me. It let us speak without struggling over words.”
This book will touch any hunter’s heart. Buy it and read it.
Longbow: A Hunting Life, Raven’s Eye Press, LLC,  www.campbellsquest.com,  200 pp. paper."

[Drew]

Awesome book guys, order up a extra to pass on to someone else when ya order your copy!

How does she manage a 70# bow?????????

[anw0625]

I just ordered mine!