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61) Wild turkey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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This book explores the wild turkey, including its habitat, appearance, history, seasonal habits, scientific classification, life cycle, predators, and defenses. The book also addresses hunting techniques, proper equipment, safety, health, ethics, and responsibility.
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"Sister" Jane Arnold, the septuagenarian master of Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, uses her common sense to try to solve the mystery of who killed a local woman and posed her corpse naked on a horse statue, while resident foxes, horses, and hounds devise their own theories about the murder.
63) Hard to break
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"Mike Gannon always wanted to go to Alaska. That's why when a bucket-list grizzly bear trip to the Klondike comes up, he's on it with both feet. But as he arrives up in the northern wilds, he discovers other hunters are there. And they're not looking for grizzly. Soon Mike finds himself alone and captured on a corporate plane heading southbound for an incredibly lethal encounter that is about to blow his mind before it tries to blow him away"--
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Written in the spirit of his father Theodore Roosevelt's wilderness books, The Happy Hunting Grounds is a collection of hunting stories, some of which recount the expeditions Kermit took with his father. Theodore once said of his son, "It is rare for a boy with his refined tastes and his genuine appreciation of literature - and of so much else - to be also an exceptionally...
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Craig Boddington's first African hunting book, From Mount Kenya to the Cape, chronicled his hunting exploits from 1977 to 1986. Since that time, he has written a book every ten years on his African experiences. Now he's back with Tracks Across Africa, which chronicles his third decade of African hunting. Pretty much, every country open to hunting in this period saw Craig Boddington walking on its soil: C.A.R., Chad, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tanzania,...
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This classic exposition of the art and sport of hunting with the bow and arrow, takes the reader through some of the historical uses of the bow in hunting, to the practice of making a bow, shooting the bow, and general info on archery and its equipment. Specific chapters detail the hunting of the raccoon, wildcat, fox, wolf, deer, bear, and mountain lion. Hunting adventures of the author and his hunting pals are gloriously illustrated in words with...
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There may be no better example of American individualism and rugged outdoorsman than the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. In this volume we find two of Roosevelt's works on hunting, "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman", and "The Wilderness Hunter", combined into one volume. Roosevelt, who as President would bring some 230 million acres of land under the protection of the National Parks and Forest Services, was an avid naturalist and...
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In his book, Jones covers the wary whitetail from Canada to old Mexico and all locations in-between-he even covers the diminutive Coues deer of the Southwest. To be successful at whitetail hunting you need to be serious, and who is more serious than the professional whitetail guide, the man (or woman) who makes his/her living at it? So, read the other one-person accounts for exciting stories, but read this book for the invaluable information needed...
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Hunting was always Wm. Hovey Smith's passion, and if there was anything he was more passionate about was hunting with a variety of muzzle loading guns. This passion took him to Africa where he took big game with a muzzle loading pistol, double-barreled slug-shotgun, and a bolt-action muzzle loading rifle. His interests grew to include hunting both big and small game with muzzle loading revolvers and even a blunderbuss. Many of these hunts were published...
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Hannes Wessels is one of the most talented writers that we at Safari Press have read in a long time. This former PH in Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe writes tales of hapless figures and derring-do gone wrong that will make you laugh out loud-a rarity in the cut-and-dry genre of big-game hunting. There is the story about a PH who wanted to impress the beautiful daughter of a client and landed up in the emergency room with a rifle barrel stuck up his...
72) Deer hunting
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about deer hunting. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
73) Duck hunting
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Capstone High-Interest Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
75) Bear hunting
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Learn the special skills and techniques used to be safe and responsible while tracking the elusive grizzly bear. --
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On his first trip out West, Zane Grey became friends with Buffalo Jones, the "last of the plainsmen" as he called him. Jones had been witness to the great herds of buffalo that had once ranged on the Great Plains, and he had been a participant in the hunts that led to their destruction. In early 1923, Grey decided that he would write the epic story of the thundering herds of buffalo, the great hunt that decimated them, and the battle between the Plains...
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Pleasant Co
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
80) Varmint hunting
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Hunting varmints is a form of pest control. Animals that are considered varmints include raccoons, opossums, coyotes, bobcats, and prairie dogs. Varmint hunting controls excess animal populations, providing farmers and ranchers with a valuable method of restricting nuisance wildlife populations so that they don't overrun and overgraze farmlands. This engaging book explains preparation, responsibilities, ethics, hunting techniques, and steps to take...
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