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How to Hunt Coues Deer by Duwane Adams and
Tony Mandile.
If you are interested in Coues deer hunting, then this book is a must.
Duwane and Tony have used their decades of experience to put together an
outstanding book. It contains information about the biology of the Coues deer,
hunting tactics, hunting gear, field judging, scoring, and unit-by-unit hunting
information for AZ and New Mexico. There are also many hunter photos and
hunt stories. Click on the back cover image to read more about the book.
$20.00 plus tax and $4.00 shipping and handling
Coues White-tailed Deer - An Annotated Bibliography
by Richard A. Ockenfels
This book provides a comprehensive review of close to a
hundred of research articles published about Coues deer. Each article/book
is summarized by Mr. Ockenfels and indexed by category that it covers (habitat,
reproduction, disease, distribution and much more). If you are serious
about learning about Coues deer, this is a must have. It is published and
sold by the Arizona Game and Fish Department. You can buy it for $10 from
some of the regional AGFD offices or by contacting
Richard Ockenfels.
Deer Quest by Lance
Stapleton
This book chronicles the author's attempt to
take six exceptional bucks of the six varieties of deer in North America all in
the same year! There are three major species of deer (the triple) and each
of those species has two subspecies (the double). This "triple-double" had
never been attempted before. Lance is an outstanding writer and really
brings his adventures alive in this book. Among the many hunts he writes
about, two are Coues deer hunts in Mexico. Any deer hunter will enjoy this
book!
Read more about this book below.
From the back cover of Deer Quest (click to enlarge):
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Deer Quest is $12.95 plus tax and $4.00 shipping/handling. The
original retail price on this book was $19.95, but it is now on sale for quite a
bit less.
Elk Books
Greatest Elk by Roger Selner
Here is the book all elk hunters have been waiting for!
This oversized book holds the stories and statistics of the biggest bulls ever
killed in North America. Stunning, full-color photographs highlight over 40
world-class heads, including the former world records! See the new world-record
non-typical, with an amazing score of 465 plus. View the new world-record
typical from Arizona that scores 442 plus, beating the famous Plute bull shot in
Colorado in 1899. All heads appear with Boone & Crockett gross and net scores,
and even the great heads missing from Boone & Crockett appear in full color with
their scores. Discover which elk had the most points, the widest spread, the
biggest sheds, and much more.
The stories are as amazing as the photographs. Follow the
hunters as they stayed on the track of a monster bull for days on end. Read
about how some of the biggest heads ever produced were found in garages and
barns where they had been lying for decades, unrecognized! Enjoy the intrigue as
historic heads change hands. Learn how one of the biggest bull of all time was
found drowned! Lavishly illustrated, expertly researched, this is the greatest
elk book ever produced.
"Anyone who loves reading about hunting elk, especially
trophy elk, will be delighted with this book. Roger Selner has left no stone
unturned in seeking the stories and photos of the biggest bulls ever taken. The
bulls pictured here defy the imagination, and this book is a work of art that
deserves to be treasured in every elk hunter’s library"
Jim Zumbo
Hunting Editor, Outdoor Life
Cody, Wyoming
$39.95 plus sales tax and $4.00 shipping and handling (this hardcover book is 209
pages with full color photos)
Sorry I am out of stock of this and don't think I will be getting anymore
in anytime soon.
Mule deer hunting books
Hunting Monster Mule Deer in Arizona's Kaibab
Region by Duwane Adams and Durwood Hollis
This is a great resource for information about hunting
trophy mule deer in the Kaibab. Learn how to get tags, what rifles to use,
how to glass, how to stalk the deer, and much more.
Click on the image of the back cover of
the book for more details on content.
$19.95 plus sales tax and $4.00 shipping and handling
Mule Deer Conservation: Issues and Management Strategies
A new mule deer book
called "Mule Deer Conservation: Issues and Management Strategies" has just been
published by the Mule Deer Working Group (sponsored by the Western Assoc. of
Fish and Wildlife Agencies). This 240-page book is the latest information on
mule deer biology and management and is written by the western states' and
provinces' leading mule deer biologists. It is written primarily for the
working biologist so you have the latest information at hand on issues like
diseases, predation, habitat changes, nutrition, elk/deer competition, weather,
etc. It will also appeal to many hunters.
I am not selling this book
directly, but you can click here to get an order form.
The cost is $22.00, including shipping, each unless you buy more than 5 copies.
If you have any further
questions about ordering, contact Todd Black or Nevelyn Headrick (435) 797-8876.
This is the definitive book about Elliot Coues, a great
naturalist of the 1800's. Coues is primarily known as an ornithologist,
but he described many of the species in the Southwest, which were then named for
him. One of those species is the Coues White-tailed Deer.
Yaqui Deer Songs, Maso Bwikam: A Native...
Yaqui Deer Songs, Maso Bwikam: A Native American
Poetry
------- A reader from
Oregon wrote:The lyrics of the Yaqui Deer
Songs are magical, moving poetry both in English translations and in the
liquid sounds of the Yaqui originals. This book gives a sense of the true
flavor of Yaqui culture and spirituality.
Adventure books
Cabeza De Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
A review by Scott Swindle: Cabeza de Vaca and some
of his fellow Spaniards went through some incredible hardships as some of the
first Europeans in the New World. They first set out on an ill-advised voyage
from Cuba to Florida, where they lost their ships. They built primitive boats
which they intended to sail around the coast to Mexico. They went past Mobile
Bay, then cut across the Gulf to Texas, where they were captured by the local
tribe. Of the 300 Spaniards who left out on the voyage, only 4 survived to tell
the tale. De Vaca spent years as a slave to the Indians. He was half-starved (as
were his hosts), regularly beaten, and naked. He eventualy linked up with some
of his surviving comrades, including a Moorish slave, and they began an epic
journey across what is now the Southwest United States and Northern Mexico. He
gained a reputation as a medicine man, and soon had an entourage of thousands
that travelled with him from village to village. When he finally reached Spanish
settlements on the Pacific, the only thing his fellow 'civilized' men were
interested in were his followers, which they saw as easy prey for slaves. De
Vaca tried in vain to stop the slavers. This was a man who never lost his faith
in God or his faith in man. It is simly an incredible journey, and one that does
not get enough attention. Though this account is nearly half a millenium old,
the translation is easy to read and not at all boring.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount
Everest Disaster by Jon
Krakauer
Epic:
Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks
A word of advice if you sit down to
enjoy this book: bundle up. Like climbers, you'll begin to experience the
overriding sensation of bitter cold mixed with jubilation at reaching the summit
(and in some cases, reaching the bottom safely). With the success of Jon
Krakauer's Into Thin Air and other accounts of Everest expeditions, the
time is ripe for a collection of epics. An "epic" means the climb went wrong:
the party got lost, an avalanche destroyed the camp, climbers got frostbitten,
etc. All those disasters and more are here; in fact, one of the most harrowing
passages recounts a climber watching helplessly as a colleague slides off a
cliff into 4,000 feet of thin air. Editor Willis has chosen the contributions
wisely: these men are writers as well as climbers, and despite the numbing cold
throughout, the action never stops, even when Art Davidson and crew are stuck in
a tent on Mt. McKinley for days in minus-148 degree wind chills. All the stories
here are celebrations of the good and the bad about one of the most dangerous
things humans try simply because they can. Joe Collins
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Amazon.com review "God, he was a smart kid..."
So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education,
material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an
abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's
book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with
certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not
only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people
to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes
Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah
desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through
the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood
in him has forgotten those dreams." Into the Wild shows that McCandless,
while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us,
something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless
isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic
personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you
won't soon forget Christopher McCandless.
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