Rabbits account for more hunting hours than any other game animal and Rabbit Hunting is the only book devoted exclusively to this sport. It consists of stories about hunting and techniques used in the sport with sections on types of rabbits, uses of dogs, methods of hunting and recipes for cooking rabbit. The material is culled from the works of some of the finest outdoor writers in America. Whether you are a hunter or an armchair reader, this book will provide hours of enjoyment.

In this book, you will find everything you will need to know about hunting rail birds in the United States. The four huntable species are: The Clapper rail (Rallus longirostris), King rail (Rallus elegans), Virginia rail (Rallus limicola) and the smallest: the Sora rail (Porzana carolina). September marks the opening of railbird/marsh hen hunting season across America. Rail birds are webless migratory wildfowl (marsh birds) that migrate in great numbers throughout our flyways each fall from September - December. Each state's Migratory Wildfowl Commission sets the limits and hunt days each year, following the Federal Government's seventy days allowed to hunt rail birds. The limits have consistently been quite liberal, since the bag limits were first set by Federal game laws in 1918, and even today, these are a liberal 25 Sora/Virginia rail per person per day, and 15 Clapper/King rail, or in aggregate, depending on your states specific DNR's rail bird hunting regulations. If you are a keen waterfowler, you'll enjoy the Rail Bird Hunter's Bible Everything you need to know about the history and about hunting rail birds throughout the USA is in this book. All waterfowl hunters will appreciate receiving a copy of the most scholarly hunting book ever written on these rail bird species by the author of "REDFISH ON A FLY" (2007). John J. Audubon called rail bird shooting: "The sport of kings," as it was a shooting sport primarily done in a traditional method of push poling a light skiff through a flood tide in the Saltmarsh. That traditional hunting method has not changed, since the days of 1831 when as a young man he was invited to hunt rail birds, and observe wildfowl in Charleston, South Carolina. At first he called the King Rails the Freshwater Marsh Hen, because of its preference for freshwater marshes. It is the largest of North American rails. It was in the Charleston brackish salt marshes that Audubon saw a Carolinan being poled in a skiff out rail bird hunting for Clapper rail. The man, who had two muzzle-loaded, side-by-side shotguns, shot at and killed four separate marsh hens as they flushed off around his skiff Read about the history of the four huntable rail bird species, where to find them, and how to hunt them. The author has hunted rail birds for over forty seasons all over the nation, and is the nation's top wildfowl historian, and researcher on hunting rail birds in North America. You will read about ecology of the species, environmental issues, nesting areas, banding programs, and the great fall migration and the hunting season. Read interesting and historical stories about some of the most famous rail bird hunters, shotguns, guides, push poles, retrieving dogs, and rail bird skiffs. See sixty hunting photos and illustrations from around the nation's greatest rail bird flyways and hunting areas, and hunting gear. Did you know that the Sora rail can fly at speed up to 40 mph? However the Virginia, Clapper and King rails fly as fast a quail. Rail birds are best hunted in the traditional manner, which is in a marsh during very high tide (called a rail bird flood tide), and the hunter shoots jumping rail birds from the front of the skiff, while seated in a gunner's chair. The skiff also has a guide or poler, who uses a push-pole from back of the boat to go through a salt marsh or a flooding fresh water rice meadow. In the Atlantic Flyway, rail birds numbering in the millions, migrate throughout the coastal inshore waters, and historic staging, and feeding grounds along the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways each fall, they are hunted from the months of SEPT-DEC according to the state's DNR-Migratory Bird Committee, which sets the seasons each year by August 1st. Everything you need to know about the education of a rail bird hunter is found in this book, which is the first book ever written on the history of rail bird hunting in America.

Every bullet on impact has crater, splash, punch properties and the proper selection of bullet weight, velocity, and bullet construction will control these effects. Momentum mostly determines punch. Kinetic Energy mostly determines splash. Kinetic Pulse determines crater.

The Still-Hunter
By Theodore S. van Dyke
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The Modern Elk Hunter is a simple step-by-step guide in planning a Western hunt. It introduces the reader to the Western landscape, the game that inhabits it, and the hunting lure that will draw you in. It walks through the many license options and research resources a hunter has at their fingertips, and also advises how to best utilize them. By providing recommendations to follow, blunders to avoid, and many little known tips and tricks, The Modern Elk Hunter is a one-stop shop in increasing the success of your next Western Hunt

This hunting guide is offered primarily as an aid for the prospective deer hunter or one with limited experience. It is hoped also that the woods-wise hunter will find an occasional item of interest and value to repay him for his reading. I am sure he would be the first to agree that it is advisable to supply the prospective deer hunter with reliable foreknowledge of hunting equipment and its use, and to offer practical ways for insuring personal comfort and safety in the field.Under the drive of modern living, I am certain that deer hunting offers esthetic rewards that balance and often exceed the practical aspects of the activity. This book can only point the way.

Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a wingshooter's odyssey to the wild places where, at the end of the day, the companionship of faithful gun dogs and good friends matters more than a bulging game bag. In this sometimes humorous and sometimes poignant collection of essays, Dave Books celebrates a time-honoured connection to the land and the hard-earned hunting rewards of an outdoor life. Through these essays, readers tag along on adventures in the forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the fields of Iowa and North Dakota, the prairies of eastern Montana and Nebraska, the mountains of western Montana and Idaho, and the deserts of Arizona. Books also writes of the game birds that hunters pursue and admire: grouse, quail, woodcock, doves, chukars, Hungarian partridge, and other waterfowl. A heartfelt tribute to the freedom and magic of the hunt, Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a book that has much to say about work and fun, success and failure, and the sights, sounds, and smells of a day afield.

For Bill Burkett, life has been an extended series of duck hunts. Here are his personal diaries that describe memorable hunts along with the high points of his journalistic career. Any hunter will identify and find these tales as exhilarating as taking down that first bluebill, canvasback, or greenwing teal.

This beautiful color book will answer all your questions about German Shorthaired Pointer dogs, from a unique perspective in that this book is written by a long time GSP breed owner of twenty years and trainer, as well as a show dog judge, who also shares her amazing photos. Whether you are someone who is just curious about GSP dogs, or looking to learn more in anticipation of training a German Shorthaired Pointer, this book will teach you all you need to know. You will learn all about training and hunting with German Shorthaired Pointer dogs. This book also includes history, genetics, rescue, breeding, temperament, lifespan, kennel club information, personality, as well as health information - including specific conditions they are prone to that all new owners should be aware of. If you are wondering about their suitability as family pets, showing standards, as well as common health problems, this book will make you an expert on this remarkable hunting dog.

West Texas Trapping takes you through more than just a day on the trail. You learn: How to deal with changing trapping season conditions for various fur bearing animals. How to handle traps, baits, and catches with ease-as well as which ones work best and where. How keeping notes and logging your experiences can lead to a better return on your season. Orrin and gang provide an unique insight into an area thought of mainly as 'oilfield'.

Making Your Life in the Outdoors Finding Meaning in the Crosshairs, and Memories at the End of Your Line. Reflections on Family, Friends, Food, Fishing, and Forests When was the last time you laughed by a campfire with good friends? How long ago did you sit quietly by a lake waiting for the big one to bite? Have you lately taken a moment to remember the heart-pounding thrill you had watching-and hoping-for a buck to cross your path? Nothing touches body, mind, and soul like nature-the great outdoors-and when you combine it with the author's five essential ingredients to a great life, it creates true stories full of adventure and excitement, contentment and contemplation. Wisdom and wit flavor each story that is topped off with mouth-watering recipes straight from the hunting lodge and fishing camp-proven delicious by many a hunter and fisherman.

What makes the hunting experience special? What compels us to pursue this strange hobby? In this book the author attempts to answer these questions from his own personnal, real life experiences and the experiences of his family and friends. More than just a compilation of hunting tales, the stories inside illustrate important moral points about life that only the hunting experience can provide. Further, the focus of the stories (at least most of them) is on the PLACES rather the people. THEY are the stars of the stories as the hunters move on and through them over time. The places change the hunters and the places themselves change inexorably over time - and not all for the better. Do not expect tales of grand and expensive foriegn safaris. No, rather, this is the hunting of common men who, having lived at a unique and special place in time and geography, had the priviledge of a degree of freedom and opportunity rare in human history and becoming increasingly rare today. So for a read of hunting adventures which are recognizable to every person who has stepped outdoors to hunt, put this book in your backback for the next time you are on the stand on a long, listless day. The stories are designed by a hunter for hunters to be read while keeping one eye on the brush just in case. Because you never know when "lightening is going to strike."

Wouldn't it be nice to know exactly what to look for when scouting the woods? Think of the luxury of having the knowledge of knowing where you need to be to get yourself in the right position for the perfect shot. Think how great it would be to go into the woods with confidence and not spend endless hours sitting and wasting your time. How awesome would it be to go out and bag your limit each year while your buddies struggle to get any? Imagine how exciting it would be to make that call home or to your buddies to inform them that you have just taken a 10+ point big buck. Picture if you will sitting in your den or living room as your visitors admire your mounted trophy on the wall and ask you how the heck you did it. This can all happen for you...with Talking Deer Hunting With Zeb

Why Reload? There are dozens of reasons why shooters decide to take up the hobby of reloading. Here are a few of the most frequently referenced reasons: Cost Savings Accuracy & Velocity Customized Loads Personal Satisfaction Times have changed. With all of the challenges of today, both real and perceived, in many cases ammunition is not readily available. People must turn to reloading. Even those people who have been reloading for a long time now face challenges. Favorite powders are not always available. Traditional weight bullets are unavailable. One has to reload familiar cartridges with unfamiliar components. The purpose of this databook is to help the user be like the Marines: Improvise Adapt Overcome This databook contains over 10,000 loads for over 100 shot shells.

Modeled after Peter Beckford's Thoughts on Hunting, Letters to a Young Huntsman provides a unique look into foxhunting today. From the perspective of one professional huntsman to another, it touches on many of the intricacies of the sport. If you've enjoyed Andrew Barclay's articles in Covertside magazine then you should enjoy this book. It is an expanded group of letters to a fictitious young huntsman who has just taken over a pack of foxhounds. These letters, written from an older and experienced huntsman, are designed to educate the reader in this wonderful sport that so many enjoy. In this book Andrew visits many of the trials and tribulation that a huntsman must deal with in the course of a season, career, or lifetime with foxhounds.