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This lyrical account of a beloved time and place celebrates a father-son relationship. In Cogan’s Woods, Ron Ellis fondly recalls annual August hunting trips with his father: heading toward the great forests of Kentucky in the passenger seat of the family Mercury, exploring the foggy woods and hills above the Ohio River.

"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.

"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.

"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.

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.

To become a "PhD Whitetail", a whitetail deer has to have gone to school on hunters. He knows when to move, where to move, and how to move to avoid detection. Most deer hunters rely on luck to occasionally have the opportunity to see a PhD buck. But the professional hunters in this book have spent their lifetimes finding these bucks-with-doctorates and putting themselves in position to take these monster bucks using hunting strategies that few of us employ. The men who have learned their lesson from the PhD deer are videographers, producers, TV hosts, and/or professional hunters.

Nature provides us with many examples of the best ways to set goals, solve problems and set ourselves up for success. “Winning With The Wild Life” is a compilation of true stories of hunting and outdoor adventures that are each told to make a point about living a good and positive life. A case is made for the hunter-provider as a conservationist with specific historical and modern examples of the positive impacts outdoorsmen and women are making on our wildlife and our wild lands.

Master the wilderness within and without as you step into nature and embrace the thrill of the hunt! Are you ready to reconnect with nature and find peace in your surroundings, away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life? Could you find simple satisfaction in providing for yourself and your community from just the land around you? By reconnecting to the earth around you and the incredible ecosystems that sustain us, you can find newfound appreciation in the purity and simplicity of the hunt while you reap the rewards of your hard work.

An Affair with Grouse is entirely about ruffed grouse and grouse dogs reflecting the consecration of the man who wrote it, interests enhanced by drawing them and writing about them. Reminiscent of the days when one person used related crafts to create a book, it has been designed and shaped into a deluxe edition by one man and woman.

So, you're interested in hunting but you've never done it, and you don't know where to start. Well for starters, welcome, and relax - it is not as daunting as you may think. It used to be that you knew when someone was going to be busy with hunting, there was a definite season, but you may be surprised to learn that hunting has now become a four-season sport. This book is going to lay out some of the basics and make it easy and fun.

Embark on an extraordinary adventure into the captivating world of morel mushroom hunting with Morel Mushroom Hunting Cheats, Hacks, Hints, Tips, And Tricks Guide. This comprehensive guide is your key to discovering the hidden realms where these elusive treasures of the forest reside.

An award-winning historian tells the story of hunting in America, showing how this sport has shaped our national identity. From Daniel Boone to Teddy Roosevelt, hunting is one of America's most sacred - but also most fraught - traditions. It was promoted in the 19th century as a way to reconnect "soft" urban Americans with nature and to the legacy of the country's pathfinding heroes. Fair chase, a hunting code of ethics emphasizing fairness, rugged independence, and restraint towards wildlife, emerged as a worldview and gave birth to the conservation movement.

How do you know if the land you hunt has a trophy deer on it? Wildlife manager Bob Zaiglin, of Uvalde, Texas and Jim Crumley, the father of modern-day hunting camouflage, tells you how to find out. GPS can make finding and taking that trophy buck easier. This hunting guide will teach you how to hunt big bucks where no one else can find them, how to call deer, and how to become versatile as a deer hunter, so that if one deer tactic doesn't work, another one will.

First written in 1994 and serialised in Carpworld magazine before being published in 1999, The Syndicate was a revelation in terms of angling literature with its comic, cynical insight into the high-pressure UK carp scene.

In The Simplest Guide to Whitetail Deer Hunting: How to Track, Hunt, and Harvest Deer Without Overcomplicated Gear or Guesswork, Todd Staples shares his decades of hands-on experience, showing that true success comes from understanding deer behavior, honing basic tracking skills, and practicing ethical hunting techniques. Listeners will discover that it’s not about the latest tech—it's about knowing where to look, how to move, and when to act.

With the third installment in her My Place collection, outdoor journalist Kris Millgate follows grizzly bears through the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for the Emmy-winning wildlife film On Grizzly Ground. Her route through the wilds of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming reveals the challenges people and wildlife face as this federally protected apex predator expands its presence.

Following his English setters into thickets in search of grouse and woodcock, Mark Parman feels the pull of older ways and lost wisdom. How rare it is, in our high-tech world, to find oneself completely off the track, bewildered in the wild, and then find the path home by sight and scent and memory.

Understanding behavioral patterns is crucial for avid hunters seeking to improve their success rates while hunting whitetail dee. This book gets into these patterns along with various factors such as season, weather, habitat conditions, and social dynamics within deer populations.

Christie Green learned to hunt in order to complement the food she grew in her garden. As an act of practical agency this fulfilled her needs, yet a restlessness stirred within. She longed for a life defined by something deeper than cultural norms. Could she travel beyond the supposed domain of women and venture into the wild, where men were said to prevail?