Download or read book Rail Bird Hunter s Bible written by Joe Guide and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Shotgunner s Bible written by George Laycock and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shotgunner's Bible is a comprehensive guide for both the novice and the sharpshooter to the selection, care, and use of shotguns for hunting and competition shooting. The essential handbook for every hunter of waterfowl and upland game. 256 black-and-white photographs and 8 line drawings.
Download or read book The Waterfowler s Bible written by Erwin A. Bauer and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generously illustrated with more than 175 photos and drawings, this is the essential handbook for today's duck and goose hunter. Identifying characteristics and migration patterns of all species are included as are tips on incidentals that can make a difference.
Download or read book The Duck Hunter s Bible written by Erwin A. Bauer and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1965 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to hunting all kinds of ducks, geese, and other waterfowl in all sections of the U. S.
Download or read book Hunters Bible written by William K. Merrill and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1968-11-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American national trade bibliography.
Download or read book Field Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Market in Birds written by Andrea L. Smalley and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at how a commercial market for birds in the late nineteenth century set the stage for conservation and its legislation. Between the end of the Civil War and the 1920s, the United States witnessed the creation, rapid expansion, and then disappearance of a commercial market for hunted wild animals. The bulk of commercial wildlife sales in the last part of the nineteenth century were of wildfowl, who were prized not only for their eggs and meat but also for their beautiful feathers. Wild birds were brought to cities in those years to be sold as food for customers' tables, decorations for ladies' hats, treasured pets, and specimens for collectors' cabinets. Though relatively short-lived, this market in birds was broadly influential, its rise and fall coinciding with the birth of the Progressive Era conservation movement. In The Market in Birds, historian Andrea L. Smalley and wildlife biologist Henry M. Reeves illuminate this crucial chapter in American environmental history. Touching on ecology, economics, law, and culture, the authors reveal how commercial hunting set the terms for wildlife conservation and the first federal wildlife legislation at the turn of the twentieth century. Smalley and Reeves delve into the ground-level interactions among market hunters, game dealers, consumers, sportsmen, conservationists, and the wild birds they all wanted. Ultimately, they argue, wildfowl commercialization represented a revolutionary shift in wildlife use, turning what had been a mostly limited, local, and seasonal trade into an interstate industrial-capitalist enterprise. In the process, it provoked a critical public debate over the value of wildlife in a modern consumer culture. By the turn of the twentieth century, the authors reveal, it was clear that wild bird populations were declining precipitously all over North America. The looming possibility of a future without birds sparked intense debate nationwide and eventually culminated in the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Scholars, environmentalists, wildlife professionals, and anyone concerned about wildlife will find this new perspective on conservation history enlightening reading.
Download or read book The Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Download or read book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.
Download or read book Bible Romances written by George William Foote and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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