This pocket-size, full-color book features field photos with ghost views that highlight the heart, lungs, and major bones on whitetail, elk, mule deer, caribou, moose, and pronghorn antelope. It's an invaluable companion when hunting.
An invaluable reference guide to the sport hunter of African game animals. It includes information from the natural history and sex determination of the game trophy through to the rifle, calibre, bullet selection and shot placement. An excellent mini edition to take with you.
FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
The only book that deals exclusively with how to shoot game in the field. This is a basic primer on how to become a better field shot and how to practice for field shooting.
T. R. Hummer says that "Stephen Haven is a poet of incisive discipline deployed in the service of a passionate humanistic ethos. Every word in this collection reflects concern: concern for humanity, and concern for language, humanity's best hope. Global in vision, this worried book is unflinching, yet hopeful, yielding up a world in which 'Your own caesurae, / Your own circumference, / Is the shell of a missing animal. / You pull it tight around you like a cloak. . . . '
Provides an overview of big game hunting, discussing weapons, preparations, legal and ethical issues, safety concerns, and common types of big game animals.
Hunting big game like deer, moose, elk, bear, and wild boar challenges both the mind and the body. The opportunity to match wits with wild animals while minimizing danger and respecting their habitat makes hunting both a thrill and a responsibility. This guide provides readers with basic strategies and the advice necessary to participate in this activity, which has been around since the dawn of civilization. It covers everything from purchasing weapons and abiding by laws and regulations to learning about animal habitats and strategies for stalking and tracking big game. Your developing hunters will learn how to safely, responsibly, and effectively enjoy this pastime.