Have you ever dreamt of heading out West to chase elk? Or maybe you've been hunting elk without as much luck as you'd like to have. With twenty-plus years of elk hunting experience, learning the hard way how to ensure success each season, my goal is to help the new hunter shorten that learning curve. Do you understand preference points, know what a location bugle is, and have a Plan A, B and C in place for any elk hunting encounter? While it's impossible to cover every detail that makes for a successful hunt, this book gives you to tools to understand the basics and the resources to further your elk education.

Have you ever dreamt of heading out West to chase elk? Or maybe you've been hunting elk without as much luck as you'd like to have. With twenty-plus years of elk hunting experience, learning the hard way how to ensure success each season, my goal is to help the new hunter shorten that learning curve. Do you understand preference points, know what a location bugle is, and have a Plan A, B and C in place for any elk hunting encounter? While it's impossible to cover every detail that makes for a successful hunt, this book gives you to tools to understand the basics and the resources to further your elk education.

During his life, Gene Nunnery was recognized as a master turkey hunter and an artisan who crafted unique, almost irresistible turkey calls. In The Old Pro Turkey Hunter, the vaunted sportsman shares over fifty years of personal experience in Mississippi and surrounding states, along with the decades-old wisdom of the huntsmen who taught him. Throughout the book, his stories make clear that turkey hunting is more than just killing the bird—it is about matching wits with a wild and savvy adversary. As Nunnery explains, “To me that’s what it’s all about: finding a wise old gobbler who will test your skill as a turkey hunter.” Through his stories, Nunnery reveals that the true reward for successful turkey hunting lies in winning the contest, not necessarily exterminating the foe. Real sportsmen know that every now and then the turkey should and will elude the hunter. As Nunnery looks back on his extensive career, he analyzes vast differences in practice, old and new. The shift, he decides, came during his last twenty years on the hunt, and that difference has only increased in the decades since this book was originally published. Michael O. Giles, Bass Pro staff team member, master turkey hunter, and award-winning outdoors writer and author of Passion of the Wild, writes a new foreword that brings the practice of turkey hunting into the present day. Filled with a tested mixture of common sense and specific examples of how master turkey hunters honor their harvest and heritage, The Old Pro Turkey Hunter is the perfect companion for the novice or the adept.

New in the Big Game Hunter's Guide series, this book covers all the big game species in Wyoming by region. It includes information on hunting each species as well as hub city information that includes, hotels, campgrounds, restaurants, sporting goods stores, medical facilities, car repair services, airports, and much more. Distribution maps by region for each species are included also.

This report provides a detailed snapshot of our nation's passion for wildlife and nature. It serves as a road map to guide efforts to reach more Americans to provide them with opportunities to hunt, fish, and enjoy America's wildlife and wild places. Bird/wildlife watching, hunting, fishing are not just favorite pastimes, but they share revenues from sale of licenses and tags, as well as excise taxes paid by hunters, anglers, and shooters to continue to support vital wildlife and habitat conservation efforts in every state. The report outlines the details for compilation of information and surveys to different populations and provides highlights along with statistical information represented in tables from the data collected. Click these resources for more products relating to this topic: Animals & Wildlife resources collection Fisheries & Aquatic Life resources collection

From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landscapes--America's public lands. Every American is a public-land owner, inheritor to the largest public-land trust in the world. These vast expanses provide a home to wildlife populations, a vital source of clean air and water, and a haven for recreation. Since its inception, however, America's public land system has been embroiled in controversy--caught in the push and pull between the desire to develop the valuable resources the land holds or conserve them. Alarmed by rising tensions over the use of these lands, hunter, angler, and outdoor enthusiast Mark Kenyon set out to explore the spaces involved in this heated debate, and learn firsthand how they came to be and what their future might hold. Part travelogue and part historical examination, That Wild Country invites readers on an intimate tour of the wondrous wild and public places that are a uniquely profound and endangered part of the American landscape.

"How to Find Your Elk and Get Him in Close" will teach you the tactics of 10-nationally-known elk hunters to help put that giant bull that's been screaming at you from afar in your lap. You'll learn what some of the best guides, outfitters and successful elk hunters do to find elk and get them in really close.Also, in this book, you'll notice that the majority of the experts call elk to within bow range. We selected numerous bowhunters and bowhunting guides, since the bowhunter has to get much closer to a bull than the gun hunter does - often less than 20 or 30 yards - practically in your lap.On one elk hunt, I'd heard this bull bugle all morning. My guide had called him within 30 yards, and he was standing just inside black timber. I saw the smoke from his nose wafting out into the icy air less than 30-yards away. All the bull had to do was step out, and I could take the shot with my bow. But then, through no fault of my guide or me, the bull vanished. The only conclusion I could come up with to understand why the bull I wanted to take with my bow hadn't stepped out and given me a shot was because he got raptured. He evidently had left the earth with no trace of himself.This hunt was when I started wanting to learn more about hunting elk up close. In this book, I've tried to find some of the most-knowledgeable, experienced and practical elk hunters. I've always found that the best way to learn any outdoor skill is to either hunt or fish with the best sportsmen in that field. Often in elk hunting that means elk guides, who generally hunt every day of the season and receive a salary for every hunter they guide. So, I've put together a group of some of the best elk hunters I know to help us all learn how to find bull elk and get them in close.* Wayne Carlton is known far and wide from the TV shows he's done, his work with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the numerous elk hunting videos he's produced for Hunter's Specialties.* Mike Miller is an elk guide and a member of the Mossy Oak Pro Staff, who explains that, "If you can overcome the most common mistakes that bowhunters make when elk hunting, you drastically can increase your odds for taking a nice bull."* Ralph Ramos, a member of the PSE and Mossy Oak Pro Staffs and a lecturer on elk hunting, has learned that having the ability to call elk is important to your success, as is knowing how to manipulate elk to put them within 20 or 30 yards of the shooter.* Bill Custer and Jeff Propst are do-it-yourself and public land elk hunters. Finding and taking a nice bull on public lands is probably one of the most difficult ways to hunt, but these guys will give you some helpful tips.* Cindi Richardson breaks the mold of elk hunting being only a man's sport. Cindi has taken a record book elk and helps her husband, Corky, guide elk hunters and free-range buffalo hunters every year.* Pete Shepley, the founder of PSE Archery, is totally infected with the elk hunting virus. He's the consummate student of trying to learn how to find elk and get them in close.* Parrey Cremeans, who hunts and guides for elk in California, and Ronnie "Cuz" Strickland, the vice president of television and video production for Mossy Oak, both will tell you the thrill of stepping out of your vehicle in elk country, ready for an adventure of a lifetime.* Corky Richardson is one of the few men alive who's guided hunters to big elk and taken monstrous bulls himself. Corky guides and hunts in Arizona and New Mexico, the states with some of the densest populations of monster elk.Too, everyone likes to talk about how big the bull's antlers are, but those of us who have hunted elk know how delicious elk meat is, and we've included a couple of our favorite recipes. I also like to learn unique facts about the critters I hunt, and Chapter 11 of this book is titled, "Unusual Facts about Elk." You'll be surprised how much you learn about elk.

Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, as a history of a Native nation, or as an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and asked Neihardt to share his story with the world. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind. This complete edition features a new introduction by historian Philip J. Deloria and annotations of Black Elk’s story by renowned Lakota scholar Raymond J. DeMallie. Three essays by John G. Neihardt provide background on this landmark work along with pieces by Vine Deloria Jr., Raymond J. DeMallie, Alexis Petri, and Lori Utecht. Maps, original illustrations by Standing Bear, and a set of appendixes rounds out the edition.