Black bear hunting is hugely popular across North America, as bear populations continue to rise. Hunters looking to join in the action need look no further than The Ultimate Guide to Black Bear Hunting. Containing hundreds of valuable tips, long-time hunter Douglas Boze provides everything that you need to know to be successful this season. Here Boze shares information accumulated from a lifetime of hunting, including: How to select the best locations for baiting The best spotting and stalking tactics The proper shot placement How to pick guns and loads The basics of predator calling How to field dress a bear And many other trusted tips and tactics With dozens of photographs and diagrams that add to the expertise that Boze provides, The Ultimate Guide to Black Bear Hunting is a must-have for every serious hunter looking to take home a good-sized bear this season. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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.

This duck hunter knows how to tell a story From a young boy shivering in the rain on his first hunt, all the way to suffering the loss of lifelong hunting pals, Don E. Webster embraces almost 60 years of waterfowling. Penned with a style and flair that brings to mind outdoor legends such as Corey Ford, Robert Ruark, and Ed Zern, this collection of duck hunting memories brims with sly humor, salty wit, and poignant reflection. "Bury Me In My Waders" will charm and captivate you while tickling your funny bone at the same time. "My wife claims to have figured out why I hunt ducks. According to her, there's something in my chemistry that drives me to seek masochistic pleasure by exposing myself to bad weather occurring in cold, wet, muddy places. She is of the opinion that I should be studied by behavioral scientists." "Like myself, my lifelong pals who are still above ground have slowed way down. We suffer from hardening of the arteries, arthritis, rheumatism, lumbago, and gout, not to mention nicotine withdrawal and a leathery liver. Trinidad cigars and Napoleon Cognac are now only fond memories, having been replaced by Watkins Liniment and green, vitamin smoothies."

Winner of 2 awards at the 2017 Guild of Food Writers Awards: Food Book Award and Campaigning and Investigative Food Work Award Shortlisted for the 2017 Fortnum & Mason Food Book of the Year A BBC Radio 4 Food Programme Book of the Year 2016 A Guardian Book of the Year 2016 We should all know exactly where our meat comes from. But what if you took this modern-day maxim to its logical conclusion and only ate animals you killed yourself? Louise Gray decides to be an ethical carnivore and learn to stalk, shoot and fish. Starting small, Louise shucks oysters and catches a trout. As she begins to reconnect with nature, she befriends countrymen and women who can teach her to shoot pigeons, rabbits and red deer. Louise begins to look into how meat is processed, including the beef in our burgers, cheap chicken, supermarket bacon and farmed fish. She investigates halal slaughter and visits abattoirs to ask whether new technology can make eating meat more humane. Delving into alternative food cultures, Louise finds herself sourcing roadkill and cooking a squirrel stir-fry, and she explores eating other sources of protein like in vitro meat, insects and plant-based options. With the global demand for meat growing, Louise argues that eating less meat should be an essential part of fighting climate change for all of us. Her writing on nature, food and the environment is full of humour, while never shying from the hard facts. Louise gets to the heart of modern anxieties about where our meat comes from, asking an important question for our time - is it possible to be an ethical carnivore?

2012 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Profusely illustrated. This book is still a classic in the early development of applied ballistics. Much of the information contained within this book is still relevant to many of today's firearms and their use. It is recommended for any serious technical shooter or amateur ballistician. It is a classic reference by a renowned expert. Invaluable information for shooters, gunsmiths, collectors, ballisticians, and hunters. Starting with the '03 Springfield and '17 Enfield, this authoritative guide describes the development of automatic and semiautomatic weapons, explaining how they work, barrels and experiments with obstructions, strengths and weaknesses of military rifles, receiver steels and heat treatment, headspace, recoil problems, gunpowder, corrosion, triggers, and the Pederson Device. It also covers noted gun makers, tips to match ammunition, interior and exterior ballistics, velocity variation, measuring methods, weights, overloads, and ranges.

2012 Reprint of 1951 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Profusely illustrated. Charles Singer Landis was the preeminent small-bore writer and target/varmint shooter of his time. Above all, Landis was an experimenter with a keen interest in the "how" and "why" of firearms and ammunition performance. He was a perceptive observer of wildlife, which made him an expert hunter. Best of all, he was a good writer with the ability to organize his vast store of knowledge and information and present it in a style both concise and eminently readable. His "Woodchucks and Woodchuck Rifles" remains one of the most definitive books on the subject.

2012 Reprint of 1950 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Profusely illustrated. Charles Singer Landis was the preeminent small-bore writer and target/varmint shooter of his time. Above all, Landis was an experimenter with a keen interest in the "how" and "why" of firearms and ammunition performance. He was a perceptive observer of wildlife, which made him an expert hunter. Best of all, he was a good writer with the ability to organize his vast store of knowledge and information and present it in a style both concise and eminently readable. His "Hunting with the Twenty-Two" has become a classic text.