Along with ice fishing, bowfishing is one of the most unique, unfamiliar, intriguing, and poorly understood forms of angling. Dispensing with rod, reel, and bait altogether, this sport connects its practitioners to the most ancient and primal roots of humanity, when food was earned through the skillful use of bow and arrow. Bowfishing appeals to traditionalists and seems quite exotic, but its popularity is on the rise. Readers drawn to a more extreme and pulse-racing form of fishing will find everything they need to know here—all the equipment, licensing, clothing, gear, safety precautions, and specialized techniques and strategies necessary for a successful day stalking the waters is included. A fascinating and viscerally compelling combination of fishing, hunting, and archery, this sport provides a rare thrill. And this is the perfect guide to take along on the adventure.

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Drawing on his years of experience, Judd Cooney, one of America’s most prominent outdoor writers and photographers, offers practical information on bowhunting big and small game across North America. Cooney shares his unique wealth of hunting information with tips and tactics for pursuing whitetail and Coues deer, elk, caribou, moose, bears, antelopes, mule and blacktail deer, and cougars. He offers sage advice on how to bowhunt for turkeys, javelina, hogs, game birds, and waterfowl and first-rate advice on bowfishing. With Cooney’s own practical field experience of over fifty years, you’ll find useful suggestions on what to do after the hit and steps for preparing your trophy when afield. This manual also includes a listing of Game and Fish departments throughout North America. With crisp, honest, understandable language, this invaluable reference will teach everything a bowhunter needs to know when he sets out. For those who dream of hunting trips to far-away places or those who simply wish to improve their backyard hunting skills, Bowhunter’s Field Manual offers on-target assistance and comprehensible instructions. With the multitude of game that Cooney discusses, this guide is the ideal package—“good reading and generous information offered by an outdoorsman who has lived the words he chooses to share,” in the words of M. R. James, author of the book’s foreword.

"A bent stick and a string- for 20,000 years there has come from it a fascination that remains to this day. Archery in it's original form, with a simple device, without special features, has been finding more and more participants for some years and the art of bow building has also been rediscovered."--Front insert.

Backyard deer hunting Converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound In a single volume, prize-winning author Wm. Hovey Smith explains every aspect of deer hunting from finding deer to cooking it for your family. This book is designed for someone who has never, or seldom, hunted or cooked game. Basic hunting and cooking instructions are provided along with 50 tested recipes. Novice and experienced hunters alike will enjoy the author's writing style which is like sitting across the kitchen table listening to grandpa talk about hunting and cooking. Each day brings news of some economic, natural or political disaster. In these uncertain times it may vital for family survival to know how to kill, clean, cook and process game or salvage a dead animal that was killed in the same disaster. This book will tell anyone how to do these tasks even when electronic communications fail. This book should be in every home and library in the nation. Even if you do not think you need it, request that your local library stock it. Get the confidence to *Hunt close to home * Hunt multiple seasons * Process your own animals * Use functional, but inexpensive equipment * Eat better meat * Help the environment and your neighbors * Have a healthy lifestyle * Process deer, hogs and turkeys * Put inexpensive meat in your freezer * Eat well * Keep money in your pocket *

Author Brian J. Sorrells shares his time-tested training program for developing shooting skill and provides guidance on all aspects of traditional archery, from choosing arrow shafts to entering your first tournament.

In this new volume expert bowfisherman William Hovey Smith Explores every aspect of the challenging and exciting sport of bowfishing. In a step-by-step fashion, Smith guides the reader through the basics of bowfishing--how to select equipment ranging from bows, arrows, and fish points to tubs, spools and polarizing sunglasses. The author provides a wealth of information on topics such as how to rig a bowfishing boat, hew to find and enter a bowfishing tournament, how to hunt various species whether freshwater species like carp, gar and catfish, saltwater quarry such as shark, mola mola and stingray, or aquatic monsters like alligator gar and paddlefish. Complete and authoritative, this comprehensive book covers every detail of the rapidly growing sport of bowfishing. Stoeger's new

The surest way for you to succeed as a bowhunter is to get the help and advice of an experienced archer. There are no better experts than those folks at "Bowhunter Magazine". Learn what to look for when buying a bow, arrows, broadheads, arrow rest, mechanical release, bowsight and quiver. Find out how to make your setup ready for hunting. Also, you'll need to learn the proper stance, release and follow through for shooting compounds, recurves and longbows. And, if you want to hit your target consistently, the section on adjusting your sights and estimating range will be especially helpful. This book has hundreds of easy-to-understand illustrations and photographs that take the guesswork out of achieving true arrow flight. Make it your guide to making well-placed shots on a bullseye or the buck of a lifetime.

This authoritative guide to the great American redneck lifestyle covers more than 200 tips on everything from hunting and fishing to guns, grub and fun. Forget all the jokes, stereotypes and caricatures. The Total Redneck Manual is a loving celebration of an all-American cultural icon, as well as a practical guide full of homespun advice on how to enjoy the great outdoors. From skinning squirrels and rabbits to skinny-dipping, knife-throwing, and teaching your kid to flyfish, this comprehensive guide covers all the bases. In true Field & Stream fashion, it's packed with tips on essential outdoor skills, from picking the right hunting dog and sighting in a rifle to fixing just about anything with duct tape and frying up catfish just like grandma used to make. You'll also learn to open a beer bottle with just about anything, spit on a campfire with deadly accuracy, and kit out the truck of your dreams—with spray paint.