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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting > Hunting or shooting animals & game
The Outlaw Gunner is the colorful story of market gunning in both
its legal and illegal phases, particularly as it was practiced in
the great Chesapeake Bay, the Outer Banks, and the tidewater
regions of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. In
more than 150 of the most unusual and rare photographs from the
author's collection, the men with their guns, boats, and traps are
shown in action. The market-gunning paraphernalia looks strange and
fearful-and well it might, for it was devastatingly efficient and
deadly. He describes baiting practices, gunning with tollers,
trapping, gunning lights, punt guns, pipe guns, the sinkbox-the
whole bag of tricks the outlaws used. This is a fascinating account
of a period and of practices long gone. Throughout the unspoken
"good ole days" feeling, and the nostalgia, runs a strong
between-the-lines plea for conservation in our time. The appeal,
placed in this setting, is hard to ignore.
This is a book of short stories detailing death defying occurrences
experienced by the author while hunting the most dangerous game of
Africa. These various close calls occurred in different African
countries during 40 years of safaris. These stories are reinacted
so the reader can experience the drama as if actually present in
each situation. The stories are told on the humorous side, yet
keeping the focus on the real and tense moments as they happened.
Each year experienced people are killed hunting dangerous game in
Africa, and many more are seriously injured, including longtime
professional hunters. Most "average" hunters are just too afraid
and too scared to risk their lives hunting really dangerous game up
close. These stories probably will not help their apprehensiveness.
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