--- title: "Adventures of a Legend: Jack O’Connor" date: "2007-09-18" modified: "2007-09-18" authors: - name: "The Editors" link: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/authors/the-editors.md" url: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/articles/-editors/2007/09/adventures-legend-jack-oconnor/" categories: - "Hunting" --- # Adventures of a Legend: Jack O’Connor ![]() *Outdoor Life Online Editor* Whether you grew up reading Jack O'Connor in *Outdoor Life* or have never read his work before, you'll enjoy this look back at America's greatest gun writer. Editor-in-Chief Todd W. Smith grew up reading O'Connor in *Outdoor Life*. "For a boy of 10, his stories about hunting tigers in India and great blackmaned lions in Africa took me places I could only dream of.Rarely do you come away from an O'Connor piece without knowing a little of the history and geography of where he was hunting, the rifle and load he was using and the taxonomy of the animal he was pursuing--all beautifully illustrated in rich word-pictures that make you feel like you're right beside him as the wounded buiffalo charges or a 40-inch ram suddenly appears on a distant mountaintop," said Smith. We hope you enjoy this section we have put together to honor one of *Outdoor Life's* most accomplished writers. \[XLINK 638838\] \[XLINK 195346\] \[XLINK 638861\] \[XLINK 638869\] \[XLINK 638877\] \[XLINK 638889\] \[XLINK 638893\] \[XLINK 638898\] **PLUS** \[XLINK 638939\]: The Life and Events of Jack O'Connor \[XLINK 638953\]