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This is a manual showing how to introduce dogs to the field and retrieve birds. It gives tips on topics such as selecting the proper clothes and boots for each type of bird habitat, choosing the ideal gun and shot size, recognizing each bird and its behaviour, and preparing delicious recipes.
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Published by STACKPOLE BOOKS 5067 Ritter Road Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to Stackpole Books, 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055.
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition
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Also by Bill Tarrant Best Way to Train Your Gun Dog Bill Tarrant's Gun Dog Book: A Treasury of Happy Tails Hey Pup, Fetch It Up!: The Complete Retriever Training Book Problem Gun Dogs Tarrant Trains Gun Dogs Training the Hunting Retriever: The New Approach
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tarrant, Bill. How to hunt birds with gun dogs / Bill Tarrant. 1st ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8117-0845-4 1. Fowling. 2. Bird dogs. I. Title. SK313.T37 1994 799.24-dc20 94-10039 CIP
Portions of this book first appeared in Field & Stream, copyright 1986, 1987, 1993 by Times Mirror Magazines Inc.
All photographs by Bill Tarrant unless otherwise noted
Page vii
This book is dedicated to every bird hunter who ever ripped out the crotch of his pants caught astraddle a five-strand barbed-wire fence; took a gun dog into a motel room after the day's hunt and awakened fumigatingly stunned when it was discovered, overnight, that your buddy for life had the drizzles; plunged into a nutria hole while wad ing to a duck blind in the Mississippi delta; walked across a cottonfield to go dove hunting and stepped on a rattlesnake; leaped from a pit blind and ran across a stubblefield yelling at a guy in a truck who left the road and stole the goose you'd just shot; finally found prairie chick ens on top a knoll after hunting all day and fired the over-and-under to have it double barrel and knock you over backwards; carefully aimed and fired at the only mallard drake to come in all day and have the shot erupt in feathers. (Your buddy stayed up all night cramming that plumage into an empty shell casing and sneaked it into your shotgun so he could yell, "My God, you undressed him and he's flying away.") And you've shot into the wind, and all the exploded feathers are set tling down on your arms and hat and shoulders; you cannot help but laugh, though you really want to kill the guy and bury him beneath the blind. To have done these things, or ever had a hankering to see men so discombobulated, this is the book for you. But tell me first, how did you get out of that motel room without paying for a new carpet?
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Contents
Foreword
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
1 The Great American Bird Hunting Expedition
8
2 The Ring-necked Pheasant
26
3 Bobwhite Quail
44
4 Gambel's Quail
65
5 Mearns Quail
72
6 Scaled Quail
80
7 California Quail
87
8 Mountain Quail
91
9 Chukar
96
10 Sage Hen
101
11 Blue Grouse
107
12 Ruffed Grouse and Woodcock
113
13 Doves and Pigeons
121
14 Prairie Chickens
127
15 Sharptail Grouse and Hungarian Partridge
134
16 Puddle Ducks
143
17 Divers, Geese, and Brant
156
Index
171
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Foreword
Bill Tarrant is the top gun dog writer in America today. When he writes a gun dog book you can take it to the bank. It's good as gold. Or more to the point, you can take it to the bird field, for you're going to get into birds.
I know of no other man who has hunted more countries for more different kinds of birds with more breeds of gun dogs than Bill. It's been his life's love and his life's work.
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