Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting

For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities.

The popularity of rifles designed to take big game has never been greater.

Eugene Burns worked tirelessly and meticulously to research and understand the fundamentals of fly fishing.

From 1863 to the present--the company and the men who made it successful, the details of all models of rifles and the many other Marlin products.

Small-stream fishing wisdom with Gierach's trademark pungent humor.

Covers all popular trout foods: mayflies, caddis, stoneflies, midges.

A classic book on gunsmithing with detailed diagrams and photos of many kinds of pistols.

Selecting the rod, reel, line, leader, and flies to fill the trout fly box with step-by-step photos and instructions on the forward cast, sidearm cast, roll cast, and slack-line cast and includes six knots you need to know.

Thisthoroughly revised and expanded new edition of Taylor Streits classic Instinctive Fly Fishing addresses the real reasons people catch trout, and offers suggestions and tips to help the aspiring angler take advantage of his or her own fly-fishing instincts.

The annual Robert Traver Award honors the very best writing that implies an implicit love of fly-fishing.

Every existence has its pulse points,"e; writes Ted Leeson in this latest book, "e;those places where life rises somehow closer to the surface and makes itself more keenly felt.

Texas is a big place and it's filled with a whole lot of spots to wet a line.

This edition of Bonefish Fly Patterns is the most comprehensive collection of bonefish flies ever published, displaying fly designs from such world-class flats anglers and guides as Winston Moore, Jim Orthwein (four-time bonefish world record holder), Steve Huff, Harry Spear, Rick Ruoff, Del Brown, John Goddard, Barry and Cathy Beck, Lou Tabory, Tim Borski, Bob Clouser, Lefty Kreh, Tom McGuane, Yvon Chouinard, Craig Mathews, Vic Gaspeny, Dave Skok, Eric Peterson, Patrick Dorsey, Aaron Adams, and many, many more.

Covers spey techniques useful for all rods.

In ';Point!

First published in 1901 at the height of Grinnell's career, the work of a man who both relished the thrill of the hunt yet cherished wildlife and natural lands.

This edition of the standard textbook on its subject has been revised by Robert Churchill's biographer.

An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and raceThe United States is steeped in guns, gun violenceand gun debates.

From battling monsters from the deep, to the magic and mystery of fly fishing larger-than-life fish stories that are all true Lifelong fisherman Paul Knight knows the thrill of the chase, the one-on-one battle of endurance between man and beast that is sport fishing.

Volume IFor the fly fisher seeking to catch more and bigger trout, fishing nymphs--patterns that mimic the larval stage of mayflies--can be a surefire approach.

Here's the perfect companion to that most popular starter rifle, the venerable .

Told through the eyes of a longtime Montana fishing guide and itinerant fishing bum, A Good Life Wasted offers a unique perspective on an implausible period in the recent history of human civilization.

Originally published in 1994, this book was a fly-fishing phenomenon in the way Howell Raines's Fly Fishing Through the Mid-Life Crisis was.

Bobwhites in the Texas panhandle, prairie grouse in the Flint Hills of Kansas, Gambel's quail in New Mexico's arroyos, blue quail on the staked plains, and doves and Mearn's quail in Arizona.

Clearly written and generously illustrated, this book presents a practical, informative approach, geared specifically toward novice and intermediate anglers.

Lefty Krehs Presenting the Flydetails the most essential analysis in fly-fishing: how to get the right fly to the right fish, in the right way, at the right time.

The Orvis Wingshooting Handbook is a concise and clearly written guide to the fundamentals and intricacies of wing shooting.

Derived from the classic Trout Stream Insects: An Orvis Streamside Guide, this fully revised text focuses exclusively on those mayfly species of most importance to fly fishers.

This is a book about falling in love with the true essence of a geographical area--its sights, smells, and sounds.

A good hunter is a safe hunter, and a safe hunter treats his rifles well.

The only guide with fishing information for every public lake and stream in the state, home to more than 800,000 anglers.

"e;If you are a bird hunter looking to improve your marksmanship, welcome to the skeet field!

This classic, practical book on bird dog training is now updated and expanded with material on the latest field-training equipment and live-game training techniques with released quail and recall pens.

Chasing the lightning-fast bonefish across the south Pacific, Florida, and the Caribbean is for many anglers a near obsession, and this is the handbook to such fly-fishing adventure.

Whether your passion is bass and pike in the desert reservoirs, the trophy trout in the renowned Green River, or the delicate, gem-like inhabitants of the alpine lakes of the high Uinta, you'll find the facts here that will get you on the water and well on your way to catching fish.

Texas offers tremendous angling opportunitiesand its nearly 400-mile coast along the ';Mediterranean of the Americas' offers everything from flounder, speckled trout, redfish, and other speciesinshore, to kingfish, cobia, and blue-water big game offshore.

LEFTY KREH'S SOLVING FLY-CASTING PROBLEMS contains detailed descriptions, instructional illustrations, and troubleshooting techniques that every fly fisher needs to know.

From the tidewaters of the Columbia River to the high desert in the east, Oregon waters offer something to every angler.

The Orvis Guide to Gunfitting is required reading for anyone who enjoys shotgun sports.

With more than 650 tips total, the Almanac is an indispensable reference that will help any bass angler improve his or herfishing success quickly and significantly.

There are almost as many ways to fish as there are fish and fishermen.

What if you could peer into the fly boxes of the guides who make their living helping people catch fish, day in and day out?

This outstanding guide is filled with scores of practical observations on all of the trout foods of importance to fly fishers.

Marine researcher Aaron Adams shares his knowledge about sea grass, mangroves, salt marshes, oyster bars, shorelines, beaches, sand flats, and coral reefs from the Caribbean to the Carolinas, the Gulf of Mexico to the Florida coast, to give reader swhat they need to know to fish for tropical, subtropical, and warm-water species.

With more than 400,000 members, Buckmasters is an organization devoted entirely to deer and deer hunting.

This all-new angler's guide describes 105 of the authors' favorite fishing sites with precise directions, species found, and specific angling tips.

Vince Wilcox's Naturally Artificial Signature Flieswill enable tiers of all levelsfrom absolute beginners to long time tying expertsto follow along with ease.

Packed with the wheres, whys, and hows of fishing Florida's inshore water, vacationers, new residents, and even longtime anglers will discover what to look for, which lures to use, and where to go.

The burgeoning popularity of double guns (both over/unders and side-by-sides) in the United States is no secret, and few gunmakers know more about them than Steven Dodd Hughes, who has been building, repairing, and customizing these firearms for three decades.

When Leigh Perkins bought the Orvis Company in 1965, the fly-fishing and bird-hunting outfitter was a sleepy business with annual sales that had leveled off at $500,000.