Outdoor Hunting

You might know W.C. Hoffman as an author, outdoor writer, podcaster, ordained minister, magician, or most importantly as a husband and father. No matter how you found your way to this collection of musings, one thing is most likely safe to assume: you love the great outdoors.

Fed up of friends claiming to care about the provenance of their food, Louise Gray decides to follow the argument to its logical extreme. Starting small, Louise shucks oysters and catches fish. Gradually she gets to know countrymen and women who teach her how to shoot pigeons and rabbits. As she begins to reconnect with nature and her own upbringing in the countryside, Louise starts to question modern attitudes to the meat we eat.

Filed with colorful colloquialisms and enlightening anecdotes, Hills of Truxton: Stories & Travels of a Turkey Hunter is as rare a as a triple-spurred gobbler. Author Mike Joyner, a veteran hunter and outdoorsman, recounts some of the many stories he has collected over his 12 years as a devoted turkey hunter.

You’ll never encounter a more-maddening situation than hunting a turkey you can’t take. Turkeys that have earned their PhDs in the turkey-hunting wars pose problems to hunters because these birds know more about hunter-dodging than most hunters know about turkey hunting. You can learn how to take a tom like this by spending many days in the outdoors yourself - or, by learning from the experiences of turkey hunters who have been successful taking toms.

For more than half a century, Julius M. Reynolds, Jr. has hunted waterfowl, and the Santee lakes of South Carolina have been his sporting paradise. Early mornings, cold duck blinds, and sunrises on the Santee compose some of his most prized memories. He has witnessed both the glory days and the decline of duck hunting in South Carolina. With this heartfelt memoir, Reynolds recalls his best hunting stories, shares his knowledge of waterfowling, and chronicles recent dramatic changes in his beloved sport.

"Jeg havde den lykke at vokse op på et sted, hvor der var højt til himlen og langt til horisonten, i et blæsende, nordjysk klima. Der var udsigt og adgang til Limfjordens holme, blinkende laguner og piskende rørskove, til øde, kuplede hededrag med sletter, spredte småplantager, moser og enge. - Her var ingen brug for fantasi. Alt var levende, håndgribelig skønhed, reserveret den, der instinktmæssigt forstod at tip-tå sig frem, smelte sammen med omgivelserne og bruge sine øjne og ører i sikker bevidsthed om, at man selv var iagttaget af vildtet." J.

"Med bue og pil" er Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzkys egne jagtoplevelser fra hendes første ture ud med buen i 2013 til i dag. Her er både de bevægende, de spændende og de virkelig nervepirrende jagtoplevelser i den danske natur. Historier, der kan læses af jægere og af alle med interesse for natur og naturoplevelser. Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky er, foruden en ivrig buejæger, også prisbelønnet forfatter, tidligere soldat, faldskærmsudspringer og medlem af Kvindelige Eventyreres klub. Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky (f. 1974) er sprogofficer, forfatter og foredragsholder.

John Ford, Sr., returns to the outdoors of Maine with This Cider Still Tastes Funny!: Further Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine, his follow-up to the highly popular and critically acclaimed Suddenly, the Cider Didn't Taste So Good. Ford is a retired Maine game warden, sheriff, and gifted storyteller who carved out a reputation as a man of the law, but one who wasn't a by-the-book enforcer. He often came up with a good quip as he slipped the handcuffs on a violator, and he wasn't above accepting a lesson learned as sufficient penalty for breaking the law.

After more than 45 years of turkey-hunting experience with some of the best callers and hunters in the nation, author John E. Phillips developed The Turkey Hunter’s Bible to be a complete reference on how to find, call, take, clean, and prepare the wild turkey for the table. The author has taken several birds of each subspecies of wild turkey in the continental United States and Mexico. But more importantly, he’s hunted with some of the greatest turkey hunters who ever have lived.

You easily can take a turkey if you don't make any mistakes, but you have to know what the deadly sins of turkey hunting are to keep you from making those mistakes. If you understand how to hunt a turkey, you're far more likely to take a gobbler than if you just know how to call a turkey. Of course, calling is important, and if you want to learn to call a turkey, Preston Pittman will teach you how to call turkeys with box calls, friction calls, diaphragm calls, and other turkey sounds.

This audiobook will teach you the techniques to not just survive, but to use ingenuity and household items to solve your problems scientifically with a bit of primitive know-how thrown in. A complete and detailed section covers thoroughly the topic of survival trapping using modern snares, deadfalls, conibear traps, and primitive snares.

The adventure of a boy on a fox hunt.

Often rat traps are only used for removing rats from your home, but they are just so much more than a "rat" trap. They can trap small game of all kinds. Squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, opossums, groundhogs, birds, shrews, and rats (duh!) are just some of the animals that rat traps can trap. If you are an avid trapper to a city dweller this book will teach you to trap properly with a rat trap!

With spirited humor, thought-provoking anecdotes, and witty connections to real life, Jason Patterson weaves the story of his love for the hunt together, from its humble beginnings near his grandfather's home to early morning ventures, longing for more than just a fin or feather, but a deeper purpose for life.

"Nu havde vi hørt far synge om kragen og den hæslige jæger. Straks stormede vi ud i haven, og Peter, som var ældst, gik i gang som instruktør. Da vi var fire, som alle gerne ville agere, bestemte han, at der skulle være tre jægere med ham som anfører, og som den mindste skulle jeg være kragen, der blev skudt." I erindringsværket "Så kom en hæslig jæger" mindes forfatteren Niels Fenger sit liv som jæger helt tilbage fra dengang, han og hans brødre legede, at de gik på jagt, og Niels Fenger selv måtte spille bytte.

Wandern ist out, Geocaching ist in! Geocaching ist die moderne Schnitzeljagd: Ausgerüstet mit dem GPS-Gerät werden querfeldein die verschlüsselten Koordinaten geknackt, um den Cache zu heben. Caches sind wasserdichte Tupperdosen - als Schätze in Wäldern verscharrt, in Seen versenkt oder unter Parkbänke geklebt. Jede freie Minute widmet sich Bernhard Hoecker der geheimnisvollen Schatzsuche. Mit viel Humor erzählt er von seinen außergewöhnlichen Abenteuern und erklärt alles, was man über Geocaching wissen muss.

Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan’s memoir of her 30 years living intimately with raptors, gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, and the lessons she’s learned from her birds. From retrieving her falcon from the local police "lock up", to a heartbreaking race to save her young peregrine from attack by a wild hawk, Cowan’s life is a constant, ever-changing adventure.

Echoes of the Hunt, written by Stan Corvin, Jr., is the true story of a deer hunt he was on a few years ago in West Texas. Arriving at the ranch, he learned the owner who invited him had the flu and was not going to participate in the hunting of a massive atypical mule deer named El Viejo. For the next 10 days, Stan hunted alone for the trophy buck. Interwoven with this adventure, he tells of hunting experiences as a young boy, then later as a teenager with his father, grandfather, and uncle.

Take a walk in the park. Or explore a forest, a gorge, a campground, or even a historic site. Spend a week or a weekend. Go biking, hiking, fishing, boating, hunting, or cross-country skiing. Or just relax and enjoy the most beautiful scenery in the Northeast!

With over 30 years' experience, there is perhaps no one better qualified in the art of carp fishing than angling legend John Wilson. In this essential carp fishing guide, John covers everything you need to know, providing beginners and experts alike with invaluable hints and tips. Along the way John offers advice on the best equipment for each scenario as he passes on a wealth of knowledge that can come only from a lifetime of fishing.