billrquimby
AH veteran
- Joined
- May 11, 2009
- Messages
- 190
- Reaction score
- 61
- Location
- Tucson and Greer, Arizona
- Member of
- Safari Club International, Lander One Shot Antelope Hunt Past Shooters Club
- Hunted
- USA, Canada, Mexico, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Argentina, Spain, Mongolia, New Zealand, Australia
Hello everyone.
I am a semi-retired outdoor writer, columnist, editor and publisher who at age 73 divides his time between a home in Tucson and a summer cabin in Arizona's high country.
We see elk almost daily around our cabin. In fact, five bulls in velvet were feeding in a meadow behind us when I awoke and looked out our kitchen window this morning.
My degree from the University of Arizona's college of business and public administration qualified me for work in the advertising and public relations field, but after ten years in that field I decided it was not for me. I had written a few fishing and hunting articles for magazines but found the pay was not worth the effort.
When the Tucson Daily Citizen's outdoor editor left for another job in 1967, I was asked to replace him on a freelance basis. This led to a full-time job where I wrote twice-weekly columns and worked on the copy desk of the Gannett newspaper. The pay was adequate, but far less than I had been making, so I took on various freelance advertising projects to make up the difference. I retired from the newspaper in 1994.
My advertising freelancing ended in 1983 when I obtained a contract to edit and publish the books, magazines, newspapers and other printed material of Safari Club International from its offices in Tucson and Johannesburg. I did this until I retired in 1999.
Since then, I have written 12 books, most of them about the best-known international hunters of the 20th century. The three exceptions were "The History of Safari Club International," "Memories From Greer" (the village where we spend our summers), and "Sixty Years A Hunter" (my own memoirs).
Although I have hunted in twelve countries on six continents, my first love is Africa.
Bill Quimby
I am a semi-retired outdoor writer, columnist, editor and publisher who at age 73 divides his time between a home in Tucson and a summer cabin in Arizona's high country.
We see elk almost daily around our cabin. In fact, five bulls in velvet were feeding in a meadow behind us when I awoke and looked out our kitchen window this morning.
My degree from the University of Arizona's college of business and public administration qualified me for work in the advertising and public relations field, but after ten years in that field I decided it was not for me. I had written a few fishing and hunting articles for magazines but found the pay was not worth the effort.
When the Tucson Daily Citizen's outdoor editor left for another job in 1967, I was asked to replace him on a freelance basis. This led to a full-time job where I wrote twice-weekly columns and worked on the copy desk of the Gannett newspaper. The pay was adequate, but far less than I had been making, so I took on various freelance advertising projects to make up the difference. I retired from the newspaper in 1994.
My advertising freelancing ended in 1983 when I obtained a contract to edit and publish the books, magazines, newspapers and other printed material of Safari Club International from its offices in Tucson and Johannesburg. I did this until I retired in 1999.
Since then, I have written 12 books, most of them about the best-known international hunters of the 20th century. The three exceptions were "The History of Safari Club International," "Memories From Greer" (the village where we spend our summers), and "Sixty Years A Hunter" (my own memoirs).
Although I have hunted in twelve countries on six continents, my first love is Africa.
Bill Quimby
