How to Call Wildlife

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his book reveals field-proven techniques for getting wildlife into range of gun or camera. It is also a reliable guide to the behavior of birds and animals, offering insights that elevate calling from a chance sport to an exciting art-science.
Calling has many facets. The author explains how to interpret your quarry's sounds and how to recognize messages subtly conveyed through its body parts. He shows you how to take advantage of a creature's dominant physical senses based on what you observe and hear. He teaches you how to "talk" your quarry's own language by imitating appropriate sample sounds, spelled phonetically In the book. And he illustrates how to employ many soundless "calls" that attract wildlife by visual means.
Though there's much to know about ruses that attract wildlife, the author assures that old-line purists make calling seem more difficult than it is. He goes on to show the easy logic of concealment —how to select a stand, whether you can simply hide, why you... Tovább

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his book reveals field-proven techniques for getting wildlife into range of gun or camera. It is also a reliable guide to the behavior of birds and animals, offering insights that elevate calling from a chance sport to an exciting art-science.
Calling has many facets. The author explains how to interpret your quarry's sounds and how to recognize messages subtly conveyed through its body parts. He shows you how to take advantage of a creature's dominant physical senses based on what you observe and hear. He teaches you how to "talk" your quarry's own language by imitating appropriate sample sounds, spelled phonetically In the book. And he illustrates how to employ many soundless "calls" that attract wildlife by visual means.
Though there's much to know about ruses that attract wildlife, the author assures that old-line purists make calling seem more difficult than it is. He goes on to show the easy logic of concealment —how to select a stand, whether you can simply hide, why you may need elaborate camouflage. He describes all kinds of equipment, from primitive devices used by the Indians to the latest in electronic gadgets. He tells how to adapt your methods to terrain, season, weather, and time of day. And while covering all the standard techniques, he introduces many innovations that he himself perfected through a lifetime afield.
How to Call Wildlife is illustrated with 125 photos of equipment, techniques and callers in action. If you want to get close to wildlife, this book will tell you how.
Since becoming a full-time writer in the early 1940s, Byron Dalrymple has produced over 2,500 magazine articles, a dozen books, and more than thirty television films. He has hunted in virtually every part of the U.S. and Canada for ail popular game birds and animals. Also a professional photographer, he shoots nearly all of the photos for his articles, books and films. Vissza