The stories in “Love of the Hunt” skillfully navigate between vivid backwoods adventure and earthy humor – a compelling and entertaining account of the author’s five-decade relationship with the world of hunting. Beginning with his first grizzly hunt in British Columbia in 1957, J.B. Winsor takes the reader along the road of a lifetime’s worth of adventures and misadventures, from tracking deer in Wisconsin and black bear in Montana, to haggling with unreasonable landowners, to sharing a gamut of experiences both high and low with family, friends, strangers, and guides. Stories about trophy elk, cougar, upland birds, and more run almost the entire range of North American hunting.