Stephen Hunter Receives POMA Award at 2020 Shot Show

AmmoLand ^ | 26 January, 2020 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Stephan Hunter Receives Grits Gresham Shooting Sports Communicator Award from Tom Gresham at 2020 Shot Show. Image courtesy Dean Weingarten

On 22 January, 2020, the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) awarded novelist Stephen Hunter with the Grits Gresham Shooting Sports Communicator Award.

From POMA:

The award recognizes extraordinary achievements in communications and in support of our hunting heritage and firearm freedoms.

Hunter is 40-year veteran author of more than a dozen novels and is known for exacting technical details about firearms and shooting. His 1993 novel “Point of Impact” was made into the movie “Shooter,” starring Mark Wahlberg, which grossed almost 100 million dollars. Hunter is an avid shooter. His latest novel is “Game of Snipers #add,” which continues the wildly-successful series featuring American sniper Bob Lee Swagger. In his 2001 novel “Pale Horse Coming,” Hunter built the plot around characters which were based loosely on famous gun writers of the past.

As the film critic for the Washington Post, Hunter received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2003.

Grits Gresham's son, Tom Gresham, host of the nationally-syndicated Gun Talk Radio and a book author, presented Hunter with the award during the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show in Las Vegas, NV.

Hunter lives in Maryland and is working on his next novel.

“As a lover of hunting literature from Hemingway to Ruark to Capstick, and particularly the work of the great gun writers,” said Hunter, “it's an unexpected honor to be selected by POMA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation for this award. It's a pleasure to be included with some of the best outdoor and firearms writers

[marktwain]

Many have read Stephen Hunter's novels.

I find he spends too much time on weird sex.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

I find he spends too much time on weird sex.

Really? You must be reading different novels than I do. I don't recall much of that in his novels.

[Rummyfan]

I find he spends too much time on weird sex.

Huh? I have read almost everything he has written and cannot recall any such scenes.

I happened to meet him in a Baltimore restaurant two years ago. A very nice gentleman.

[marktwain]

It has been a long time since I read the book.

Perhaps I am wrong.

I recall Bob Lee Swagger’s father, Earl, had a secret of sex with young boys in a bordello in Hot Springs.

I am open to correction.

[Thank You Rush]

“”Really? You must be reading different novels than I do. I don’t recall much of that in his novels.””

Nor do I...It that was true, I wouldn’t be reading them and I’m a female - enjoy his books very much. Maybe there’s another Stephen Hunter...

[Tijeras_Slim]

That was Earl’s daddy Charles. It was a plot device to make him vulnerable to blackmail in “Hot Springs”.

[Thank You Rush]

“”father, Earl, had a secret of sex with young boys in a bordello in Hot Springs.””

I guess it wasn’t a secret then, was it?

Don’t know how it fits into Hunter’s books!