Growing & Hunting Quality Bucks provides a detailed plan that will help deer managers produce mature bucks and keep them on their land. In this hands-on guide, which can be used throughout North America, deer managers learn what to plant and when to plant it, how to use surveillance cameras smartly and effectively, how to put your plan into action on a month-by-month basis, where to strategically place stands on your land, the critical importance of how to plan and build productive waterholes, and much more. The author shares his own experiences as a renowned whitetail authority and the owner and operator of Bluff Country Outfitters, with month-by-month plans for careful land management. More than 175 photos included in this book show bucks throughout the year and illustrate land administration practices. After reading Growing & Hunting Quality Bucks, you’ll have all the tools you need to cultivate world-class whitetails. This is a Bowhunting Preservation Alliance (BPA) book, a non-profit foundation created by the Archery Trade Association. Proceeds from every sale of this book will be used to build archery ranges, provide archery and bowhunting education programs, and support urban bowhunting participation across the United States. For more information, visit www.bowhuntingpreservation.org.

Growing & Hunting Quality Bucks provides a detailed plan that will help deer managers produce mature bucks and keep them on their land. In this hands-on guide, which can be used throughout North America, deer managers learn what to plant and when to plant it, how to use surveillance cameras smartly and effectively, how to put your plan into action on a month-by-month basis, where to strategically place stands on your land, the critical importance of how to plan and build productive waterholes, and much more. The author shares his own experiences as a renowned whitetail authority and the owner and operator of Bluff Country Outfitters, with month-by-month plans for careful land management. More than 175 photos included in this book show bucks throughout the year and illustrate land administration practices. After reading Growing & Hunting Quality Bucks, you’ll have all the tools you need to cultivate world-class whitetails. This is a Bowhunting Preservation Alliance (BPA) book, a non-profit foundation created by the Archery Trade Association. Proceeds from every sale of this book will be used to build archery ranges, provide archery and bowhunting education programs, and support urban bowhunting participation across the United States. For more information, visit www.bowhuntingpreservation.org.

Discover the critical concepts needed for designing your own whitetail habitat and hunting success. Whether you hunt private or public land, the concepts described in this book will help you design your next hunt of a lifetime. The Author has relied upon these concepts of Whitetail Design to achieve Whitetail Success for decades, and he is excited to the the same for you!

Steve Bartylla has never relied on outfitter to put him on trophy bucks. Instead, he relies on his own scouting and hunting skills. Big Buck Secrets draws from Bartylla's years of successful do-it-yourself hunting for trophy whitetails on both public and private land. This book is grounded in that experience to help you take your deer hunting to the next level with comprehensive instruction on: • Scouting new hunting areas • Understanding mature buck behavior • Hunting during the rut • Utilizing decoys • Aggressive and creative techniques to deal with hunting pressure • And much more! All aimed to put you on the biggest bucks of your life! Hard work and in-depth knowledge of whitetails, understanding how they utilize terrain and seeking pockets where mature bucks exist, are the tools Bartylla relies on most--and shares with you in Big Buck Secrets.

This guide to traditional bowhunting with a longbow or recurve combines the best of both worlds for beginners and veteran bowhunters. How-to chapters share hard-earned wisdom that will help you perfect your skills and get close to your game, while engaging stories tell of the author’s experiences hunting white-tailed deer in the east, chasing big game in the American West, and trekking to South Africa in search of Greater Kudu and other plains game. Throughout, the author highlights archery’s traditional spirit by exploring the history and craft of bowhunting and chronicles the challenges faced by today’s bowhunters in continuing their important role as hunter-conservationists. As a professional wildlife biologist, Ron Rohrbaugh Jr. also provides valuable information on wildlife ecology and behavior that is instructive for all those interested in increasing their success with archery tackle. Specific shooting techniques for hunting situations, ways to set up effective ambush sites for big game, and dealing with the stresses of “buck fever” The latest information on equipment and arrows, including the pros and cons of various bow styles and arrow shaft materials Advice on using the wind, hunting bedding areas, creating effective scent trails, and understanding why and how deer move Discussion of controversial topics, such as baiting and trophy hunting

From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.” A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination. In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful—Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered mountainside and then raft the meat back to civilization while being trailed by grizzly bears and suffering from hypothermia. Throughout these adventures, Rinella found himself contemplating his own place among the 14,000 years’ worth of buffalo hunters in North America, as well as the buffalo’s place in the American experience. At the time of the Revolutionary War, North America was home to approximately 40 million buffalo, the largest herd of big mammals on the planet, but by the mid-1890s only a few hundred remained. Now that the buffalo is on the verge of a dramatic ecological recovery across the West, Americans are faced with the challenge of how, and if, we can dare to share our land with a beast that is the embodiment of the American wilderness. American Buffalo is a narrative tale of Rinella’s hunt. But beyond that, it is the story of the many ways in which the buffalo has shaped our national identity. Rinella takes us across the continent in search of the buffalo’s past, present, and future: to the Bering Land Bridge, where scientists search for buffalo bones amid artifacts of the New World’s earliest human inhabitants; to buffalo jumps where Native Americans once ran buffalo over cliffs by the thousands; to the Detroit Carbon works, a “bone charcoal” plant that made fortunes in the late 1800s by turning millions of tons of buffalo bones into bone meal, black dye, and fine china; and even to an abattoir turned fashion mecca in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, where a depressed buffalo named Black Diamond met his fate after serving as the model for the American nickel. Rinella’s erudition and exuberance, combined with his gift for storytelling, make him the perfect guide for a book that combines outdoor adventure with a quirky blend of facts and observations about history, biology, and the natural world. Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.