Predator Hunting: Proven Strategies That Work From East to West

Predator Hunting: Proven Strategies That Work From East to West

by Ron Spomer
Predator Hunting: Proven Strategies That Work From East to West

Predator Hunting: Proven Strategies That Work From East to West

by Ron Spomer

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Overview

Drawing on his years of experience, well-known hunter, writer, and television personality Ron Spomer provides valuable information on how to call a variety of predators into range; how to choose rifles, scopes, bullets, shotguns, and shells; how to use decoys and predator calls effectively; how to set up in the field; how to use weather to your advantage; and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781620873809
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 06/05/2012
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 200
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Ron Spomer has hunted in forty states and five countries, from the Arctic
Circle to Africa. He travels at least four months a year, armed with rod, gun, and camera in search of adventures about which he later writes. He is the rifle columnist for Sporting Classics, a technical writer for Rifle Magazine, and a field editor for American Hunter and Sports Afield. He is the author/photographer of The
Rut, Big Game Hunter’s Guide to Montana, Big Game Hunter’s Guide to Idaho, The
Hunter’s Book of the Whitetail, and coauthor of Advanced Whitetail Hunting. He is also the host of the television show Winchester World of Whitetail. Ron Spomer lives in Boise, Idaho.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 Sons of the Pioneers

A Brief History of Predator Hunting 1

Chapter 2 Why Do They Do the Things They Do?

Come and Get It-The Call to Dinner 3

Chapter 3 Biography and Biology

The Natural History of Predators 12

Chapter 4 When I'm Calling You

All About the Sounds and Tools That Make Them 42

Chapter 5 Please Select Your Shootin' Iron

Firearms for Effect 58

Chapter 6 Basic Ballistics for Better Field Shooting

Simplified Explanations About Wind Drift and Sighting In 92

Chapter 7 We All Need a Little Support

Supply Packs and Rifle Supports 100

Chapter 8 Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Smell No Evil

How to Become the Invisible Hunter 108

Chapter 9 Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before?

The Hottest Decoys for Fooling the Wariest Predators 117

Chapter 10 Where, Oh, Where Can My Little Dog Be?

Scouting for Your Subjects and a Place to Hunt 124

Chapter 11 Making the Call

If You Blow It, They Will Come 131

Chapter 12 Time and Weather Wait for No Man

The Best Conditions and Times for Calling 141

Chapter 13 I Did It My Way

Alternative Tactics 150

Chapter 14 Working On Your Night Moves

In the Heat of the Night 164

Chapter 15 That Warm, Fuzzy Feeling

Handling Fur 173

Chapter 16 Lessons Learned

Stories of Success and Disaster 178

Chapter 17 The Buddy System

Partner Tactics to Take More Game 185

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