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Hunting Modern South Africa with Powder and Ballby Randy D. Smith
Boson Books 2008; US$ 10.95Randy D. Smith, muzzleloader hunting expert and long-time field editor for Blackpowder Hunting magazine, describes the modern history, equipment, and tactics for black powder hunting in modern Africa. Whether you are interested in reading to learn about modern muzzleloader hunting or strictly for entertainment, this book has it all. Part I deals with the history of the muzzleloader safari, equipment options, muzzleloader recommendations, and the author?s preparations. Nineteenth century hunters who faced big game with only single-shot and double-barreled muzzleloaders are not only presented, but also the relationships between their experiences and the modern hunter?s expectations are described. Part II describes the author?s experiences on... more...
Tracksby Donald C Jackson
University Press of Mississippi 2006; US$ 25.00Tracks is a pilgrimage into the wild, beautiful, and lonely places around us. Donald C. Jackson, a professor in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries at Mississippi State University, invites the reader to share the trail with him and discover connections to different vistas not only in the South but also in distant lands and on exotic waters. Through the many stories of this avid hunter, fisher, and trapper, Tracks travels into the swamps and wetlands, hills and tundra, forests and jungles, and on rivers, ponds, tropical lagoons, and the sea. Frog gigging adventures reveal the magic of summer nights in the Deep South. Running a trap line for racoons leads to a tiny Mississippi farm on a crystal clear winter night. Duck hunts evoke the mystery... more...
The Working Labradorby David Hudson
Quiller 2001; US$ 26.42This book is written for the Labrador owner whose dog is a family pet and also a working gundog. It guides the owner through all stages of training the dog so that the standard of field performance required can be achieved, whether it be working the dog several days a week or once or twice a season. The book also includes chapters on buying, rearing and working Labradors. more...
Coyote Hunter's Guideby Randy D. Smith
Boson Books 2011; US$ 14.95Well-known outdoor writer, Randy D. Smith, draws on over 40 years of coyote hunting experience to explain the mystery, challenge, and successful tactics of calling and hunting one of nature's most intelligent and illusive predators. more...
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunterby Theodore Roosevelt
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 15.99Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid portraits of the land as well as the people and animals that inhabited it, ever underscoring the author's abiding concerns as a naturalist. Originally published in 1885, Hundting Trips of a Ranchman chronicles Roosevelt's adventures tracking a twelve-hundred-pound grizzly bear in the pine forests of the Bighorn Mountains. Yet some of the best sections are those in which Roosevelt muses on the beauty of the Bad Lands and the simple pleasures of ranch life. The British Spectator said the book 'could claim an honourable place on the same shelf as... more...
Hunting Trips of a Ranchmanby Theodore Roosevelt
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On Huntingby Xenophon
Digireads.com 2005; US$ 3.99"On Hunting" by Xenophon is a classic work of literature that can be enjoyed by all. Download "On Hunting" and enjoy another quality Digireads.com publication. more...
The Fox In the Cupboardby Jane Shilling
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 13.99What does a London-based single mother do on her holidays? With a couple of weeks unexpectedly free and no chance of going away, Jane Shilling decided she would pursue a childhood ambition and learn to ride. A teacher -- Mrs. Rogers -- was easy to find. What she hadn't reckoned on was that Mrs. Rogers was a master of foxhounds. So began Jane's odd, late-blooming affair with foxhunting: the beginning of a passion that was to take her back to the scenes of her childhood and transform her life in ways that were unexpected, often enchanting, and frequently uncomfortable. The Fox in the Cupboard is a vivid account of discovering a hidden, beautiful, and frequently comic world of horses and hunting in a small corner of England. It is a book... more...
The Best of All Seasonsby Dan Aadland
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 24.95Since first learning to handle a Winchester .22 as a kid, Dan Aadland has exulted in hunting?not as a sport but as a calling. In this book he takes readers to Montana?s prairies and mountains in search of antelope, whitetail deer, moose, and the occasional upland bird as he vividly describes the rituals and camaraderie of hunting culture. more...
Human Factors Issues in Handgun Safety and Forensicsby Hal W. Hendrick
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2007; US$ 89.95Written by two certified human factors/ergonomics professionals and a criminalist and firearms expert, all of whom have testified as expert witnesses, Human Factors in Handgun Safety and Forensics draws on their formidable collective knowledge and professional experience to present the first scientifically based volume in the field. This seminal work identifies numerous human factors in handgun design, training, and related human behavior in unintentional and inadvertent shooting incidents. The book provides an overview of handgun use in general but focuses on firearm handling in unintentional and inadvertent shootings. It describes the discipline of human factors and ergonomics and includes available statistics on shootings, examines their... more...