Hunters' Journals: discuss

[ratherastory]

Okay, so I have a random thought about hunters' journals which has been rattling around in my head ever since Season 1, especially after "Dead Man's Blood" aired.

John has kept a journal for the past twenty-two years when the show starts. Daniel Elkins has a similar journal (and we are given to understand that he was John's mentor, which would explain the similarities), but much older, dating back to the sixties, if memory serves.

Given the amount of lore out there, and the fact that John himself appears to have not only documented his hunts but also at least occasionally used it as a personal journal, how the heck does it all fit into that teeny-tiny book?

Hell, when I'm doing research for a story, I can easily fill a 100-page notebook with my scribblings, and they're not all that extensive.

I would have thought that a hunter would end up with a string of journals, each filled to the brim with clippings, notes, photographs, and scraps of lore.

Can anyone explain this to me in a satisfactory manner? Please?

Or, y'know, feel free to have a debate in the comments.

Comments

[sothcweden.livejournal.com]

Maybe each hunt had its own journal for scribbling down anything and everything they found, but once the hunt was over, John would compile only the information that would possibly be relevent to other cases (feeding habits, habitat, methods of execution, etc.) and that's all that exists in the journal he carried with him through the years. After all, everything owned by a 3-person family had to fit into the Impala, and that included a lot of weapons.