Tony Kinton of Carthage sold his first outdoor article to Church Recreation magazine in 1976. Since then he has been actively involved in outdoor writing, and has placed approximately 2,500 articles in state, regional, and national magazines.
He served as Mississippi Editor for Outdoor Life magazine for 12 years. He is currently hunting editor for Primitive Archer magazine and a columnist for Today in Mississippi.
His work regularly appears in Midsouth Hunting & Fishing News, Black Powder Cartridge News, Muzzleloader, Quality Whitetails, Whitetail Journal and Hunter’s Path.
He has written eight books: The Beginning Bowhunter, Food for Game, Outside and Other Reflections, Fishing Mississippi, Summer Lightning Distant Thunder, Uncertain Horizons, Rambling Through Pleasant Memories.
Kinton has hunted in 16 states, four Canadian provinces, and five provinces in the Republic of South Africa.
He has taken whitetails; mule deer; pronghorn antelope; Corsican sheep; axis deer; javelina; wild hogs; black bears; moose; elk; Quebec/Labrador caribou; three species of wild turkeys and 16 species of African plains game. The last African safari rewarded Kinton with a Cape buffalo collected in June 2018. Much of his hunting is done with bow and arrow and muzzleloading rifles and shotguns.
