Foxfire 5

I just finished reading this volume again. Over the years I occasionaly pick it up and dust it off. If you have not had the pleasure - give it a go. It's about ironmaking, blacksmithing, flintlock rifles, bear hunting and other affairs of plain living.

 

[slowpokebr549]

Lost all my Foxfires in a flood. Miss them.

 

[FPDoc]

The Foxfires are still available on E-something or Ammozone but they have gotten a bit proud of them price-wise. I miss mine too.

 

Yep! The bear hunting stories are worth the price of the whole book. :rotf:

 

[slowpokebr549]

I check em out sometimes at this weird place. It's called a library. Pre-dates the internet I hear. Man am I Old.

 

[Stumpkiller]

I've got a well worn set of 1-3 and added 4 and 5 along the way. Sometimes you wonder if all our technology is really progress. The chapter on Gensing is my favorite, even though I don't much care for it or harvest it.

 

[powder jack]

Every time I read about a Bill Large barrel I want one. I wish I had been interested in shooting black powder guns a little earlier in life,oh well, its still fun.

 

[PaulN/KS]

I won a set at a shoot a few years back.Someone put them on the prize table and,even tho I was a loong way from 1st,they were still there when it was my turn. :grin:
Good stuff in all of those books.

 

[Crossfire]

Go to[url] http://www.foxfire.org/foxfirepublications.aspx[/url]

You can buy the books for $16 apiece or save a few bucks and pay $185 for the whole set.

I grew up in West Virginia and my Grandparents are right out of that series. I wish I had been old enough to have realized that I should interview them about this stuff before they died.

 

[DBox]

I've got several of the Foxfires and #5 is probably my favorite.

 

[zukeeper1]

I got the first through number 9 ....don't know how many there are

 

[Elnathan]

I got the first through number 9 ....don't know how many there are

11, I believe.

Stumpkiller said, "Sometimes you wonder if all our technology is really progress."

If you read the "home cures" sections I bet you'll appreciate modern technology more.
:grin:

 

[Greenmtnboy]

I own them all!! got em from my Granpappy Blanchard, read them over an over :bow:
This is strange tho, I was telling a buddy about them and how this teacher took his pupils out into the country and so on and dang if he didnt tell me that the Teacher(whats his name?) got busted for molestation :shocked2:
Is that so? Freeked me out.

 

[Pork Chop]

Foxfire 5 is the only one I have in hardback. I have all of them in softcover though. I am disappointed with the newer ones - they don't read nearly as well as the older texts. Oh, and regarding the teacher, here is a tidbit of info:
[url] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Wigginton[/url]

 

[Many Klatch]

The teacher did get busted for fooling around. That was a long time ago. It ended the series. The Foxfire books were my constant companion in the 70's. I built a couple of log cabins with the information that I gleaned from those books.

Many Klatch