Generally considered to be THE book on Browning firearms. Eastman's account contains John Browning's inventions, serial numbers, proof marks, and engravings.
This custom gun fitting guide is required reading for anyone shooting or planning to shoot a shotgun. The easy-to-follow guide clearly explains gunfit through analysis of technique, and will greatly improve your shooting style and effectiveness in the field by encouraging a smooth, accurate shooting style. Fitting guide will teach you how to move with the gun to shoot efficiently and discover the meaning and importance of shotgun dimensions and many other vital lessons.
This in-depth, how-to information on shooting trap, skeet, sporting clays and many of those informal clay-target games played at gun clubs around the country.
Edited by Ernest Hemingway’s grandson Sean, and with an introduction from his son Patrick, Hemingway on Hunting chronicles Hemingway’s zeal for the hunting life, from Africa to the American West. Hemingway found in hunting courage and skill, qualities that he would admire and incorporate into so many other aspects of his life and work.
Tenth Legion has long been considered the greatest-and most hilarious-book on turkey hunting. Many people who hunt turkeys do so with an attention to detail; a regard for strategy, tactics, and operations; and a disregard for personal comfort and convenience that ranks second only to war. As for all cultists, it never occurs to them that they may be anachronisms. Supremely unconscious of the rest of the world, blind and deaf to logic and reason, they walk along their different roads in step to the music of their different drums.
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. Here, then, are some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging elephants in the African bush to mountain goats in the crags of the Rockies, from the gallant bird dogs of the Southern pinelands to the great Western hunts of Theodore Roosevelt.
There have been few hunters as daring, as powerful, and as articulate as our twenty-sixth president, Theodore Roosevelt. From his ranching years in the Dakota Territory to the famous African adventures, Roosevelt's tales are unparalleled stories of the hunt. The best of them are collected here.