Another recommendation for Horn of the Hunter - wonderful stuff!
Use Enough Gun is an anthology of Ruark's works dating back to 1952. It was published posthumously a year after his death in 1965, and contains a mixture of magazine pieces and extracts from his two Africa novels.
Ruark covered Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising and the novels, Something of Value (about Mau Mau) and Uhuru (about the new nationalist Kenya immediately afterwards) were shocking for their time but considered a fair portrayal of both sides by many. They read like a rather more factual kind of Wilbur Smith and are well worth a look. Sadly, as they were fair to all sides, the new political classes in Kenya took exception and his hunting days out there were over.
Ruark was unfairly described as the 'Poor Man's Hemingway'. If you've not read him you might be in for a treat. The 'Old Man & the Boy' books are collections of his articles for Field & Stream, the US hunting and fishing magazine and are great reading. So are the 3 books mentioned above. His other novels are a bit samey as they are quite autobiographical, but The Honey Badger is by far the best of them.
I wouldn't bother bother with I Didn't Know It Was Loaded (a collection of very dated newspaper stuff from his early career which despite the title has very little to do with shooting), or the Grenadine novels.
I think that he got the 'use enough gun' phrase from Harry Selby, who he idolised as his PH of choice. I think he has one of his Africa novel characters use it, but can't be bothered to trail through my copies looking for it. A View From a Tall Hill is a biography of Ruark published in 2000. It's a bit disappointing as the author was unable to get much out of Harry Selby, who probably knew more about Ruark as a hunter than anyone.
As you might have guessed, Claret Dabbler and PC are not alone as Ruark fans! Give him a try. You'll find most of his titles on Amazon but may have to have some shipped from the States. Good reading
Mole