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Buy Now	Knife Throwing: A Practical Guide (more) »rank: 122269 by: Harry K. McEvoy : :A concise, informative book on 'the sport of the pioneers'. Knife Throwing includes beginning and advanced throwing techniques and covers everything from home practice to hunting methods with accurate instructions. Readers will learn how to hurl hatches, tomahawks, the Gurkha Kukri, Bowies, and other knives.	Buy Now	365 Incredible Fishing Stories Page-A-Day Calendar 2009 (Page-A-Day Calendars) (more) »rank: 20411 by: Shaun Morey : :It's the essential stocking stuffer for the fisherman. From the author of Incredible Fishing Stories, this calendar features hundreds of dramatic tales of human vs. fish. Learn about the longest billfish battle on rod and reel—lasting 341⁄2 hours. Near misses, including the 5-foot gar that escaped by biting the fisherman's chest. Odd catches, including a scuba diver hooked by a young Dutch boy. Plus Kansas fishers who prefer to wrestle their catches to shore, and Alaska's oldest catch—a shortraker rockfish estimated to be 157 years old.
Buy Now	A Whitetail Retrospective: Vintage Photos and Memorabilia from the Boone and Crockett Club Archives (more) »rank: 90294 by: Boone and Crockett Club : :After a century of records keeping, Boone and Crockett Club has opened its private vaults to whitetail aficionados!Readers will travel back through the years, exploring how whitetail hunting and records keeping has changed and evolved since the late 1880s up through 1980s. A Whitetail Retrospective is packed with hundreds of amazing vintage field photos, score charts, correspondence, and portrait shots of whitetail deer. The editors also discovered a treasure trove of publicity about the Boone and Crockett Club’s Awards Programs as well as special trophies like Babe Ruth’s whitetail buck that received a second award at the Club’s third annual competition held ...	Buy Now	African game trails (more) »rank: 90294 by: Theodore Roosevelt : :St. Martin's is proud to present a new and continuing series of the greatest classics in the literature of hunting and adventure, chosen from the personal library of writer and big game hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick. These showcase volumes will once again make available the true masterpieces of Africana to collectors, armchair hunters, sportsmen, and readers at large.The twenty-sixth president of the United States was also a world-renowned hunter, conservationist, soldier, and scholar. In 1908 he took a long safari holiday in East Africa with his son Kermit. His account of this adventure is as remarkably fresh today as it was when ...
Buy Now	Vintage British Shotguns: A Shooting Sportsman Guide (more) »rank: 32593 by: Terry Wieldand : :This authoritative guide to British-made shotguns looks at individual makers, their products, and the selling points of particular guns. In some cases Wieland also notes negative points or product limitations. While the book will be welcomed by gun collectors worldwide, it is particularly useful to those who are curious about British makers whose production was or is substantial enough that their guns would have crossed the pond into North America.	Buy Now	Dead On: The Long-Range Marksman's Guide to Extreme Accuracy (more) »rank: 92784 by: Tony M. Noblitt, Warren Gabrilska : :This hands-on manual walks the shooter through every step required to become a true long-range marksman, from understanding minute-of-angle principles and selecting a rifle, caliber and cartridge to mounting and zeroing a scope, estimating wind values, dealing with mirage, understanding bore sighting, selecting and using iron sights, shooting with a variety of slings, performing preventive maintenance on your rifle and using range finders. Includes scope adjustment charts for a long list of rounds.
Buy Now	The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing (more) »rank: 74329 by: Thomas Mcguane : :From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-Two in the Shade and Nothing but Blue Skies comes this collection of breathtakingly exquisite essays borne of a lifetime spent fishing.The thirty-three essays in The Longest Silence take us from the tarpon of Florida to the salmon of Iceland, from the bonefish of Mexico to the trout of Montana. They bring us characters as varied as a highly literate Canadian frontiersman and a devoutly Mormon river guide and address issues ranging from the esoteric art of tying flies to the enduring philosophy of a seventeenth-century angler. Infused with a deep experience of wildlife and the ...	Buy Now	Become the Arrow (On Target Series) (more) »rank: 90071 by: Byron Ferguson, Glenn Helgeland : :From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-Two in the Shade and Nothing but Blue Skies comes this collection of breathtakingly exquisite essays borne of a lifetime spent fishing.The thirty-three essays in The Longest Silence take us from the tarpon of Florida to the salmon of Iceland, from the bonefish of Mexico to the trout of Montana. They bring us characters as varied as a highly literate Canadian frontiersman and a devoutly Mormon river guide and address issues ranging from the esoteric art of tying flies to the enduring philosophy of a seventeenth-century angler. Infused with a deep experience of wildlife and the ...
Buy Now	Successful Shotgunning: How to Build Skill in the Field and Take More Birds in Competition (more) »rank: 197410 by: Peter F. Blakeley : :From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-Two in the Shade and Nothing but Blue Skies comes this collection of breathtakingly exquisite essays borne of a lifetime spent fishing.The thirty-three essays in The Longest Silence take us from the tarpon of Florida to the salmon of Iceland, from the bonefish of Mexico to the trout of Montana. They bring us characters as varied as a highly literate Canadian frontiersman and a devoutly Mormon river guide and address issues ranging from the esoteric art of tying flies to the enduring philosophy of a seventeenth-century angler. Infused with a deep experience of wildlife and the ...	Buy Now	Misery Loves Company: Waterfowling and the Relentless Pursuit of Self-Abuse (more) »rank: 27629 by: Bill Buckley : :This book takes a fun-filled look at the foibles, follies, pratfalls, and unpredictable world of the duck hunter, from the time his alarm rings at 3:00 a.m. until he stumbles into freezing marsh water two hours later, swamping his waders but not dampening his enthusiasm for the sport. Why do duck hunters do it? Sit in driving rain for hours awaiting ducks that may never come? Shiver in freezing boats and blinds in the most inaccessible, not to mention inhospitable, environs imaginable? Author-photographer Bill Buckley writes about these magic moments with humor and verve, but it is his brilliant color photographs that ...