Tips and tactics with recollections of days spent in the field.
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Both a practical reference to bird hunting and a collection of hunting reminiscences, John D. Taylor's Hunting North America's Upland Birds guides the reader thorough the wide-ranging terrain of bird hunting, from the mature forests of the Northeast to the arid expanses of the southwestern desert country. Taylor points out where bobwhite quail, ruffed grouse, woodcock, wild turkey, mourning doves, pheasants, and other game birds can be found. Sensitive to conservation issues, he conveys a sense of responsibility for his favorite converts' present and future. Recommendations for guns are included, as well as advice on the best breeds of gun dogs. (6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 276 pages, b&w photos, color illustrations)
About the Author
John D. Taylor is a freelance writer, columnist, and photographer, with works published in Wing & Shot, the Magazine for Upland Bird Hunters; Pennsylvania Game News; Pennsylvania Sportsman Hunting; and Gun Dog, the Magazine of Upland Bird and Waterfowl Dogs. He lives in Pennsylvania.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good book...,
This review is from: Hunting North America's Upland Birds: Tips and Tactics for Pheasants, Grouse, Quail, Woodcock, Dovers, and More (Hardcover)
Not only is this a good book, but as a DeCoverly English Setter owner, I must say that it is quite accurate. I agree, it seems Delta Lady does have an axe to grind, and should watch what kind of slanderous garbage she publishes. Every DeCoverly setter owner agrees that their dogs are healthy, stylish, excellent hunters and well adjusted, gentle friends. DeCoverly is in no way a puppy mill.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Read!,
This review is from: Hunting North America's Upland Birds: Tips and Tactics for Pheasants, Grouse, Quail, Woodcock, Dovers, and More (Hardcover)
Taylor really covers a lot of different species. Plenty of useful ideas for pursuing the wonderful upland birds we are blessed with in North America.
It seems that one of the other reviewers "Delta Lady" has a personal axe to grind about Taylor and the kind of dog he likes to hunt over. I personally have setters from Ken Alexander as well as know a few people who have these dogs. I couldn't want for anything better and know others are pleased with these dogs. They live up to everything Ken has ever claimed. Anyway great book!
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Save Your Money! Phony! Fraudulent!,
By Delta Lady (New England, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hunting North America's Upland Birds: Tips and Tactics for Pheasants, Grouse, Quail, Woodcock, Dovers, and More (Hardcover)
John D. Taylor is best known as being a shill for the "corporate" breeding program of DeCoverly Kennels, an English Setter breeder in Factoryville, Pennsylvania, who has pulled perhaps one of the biggest "George Ryman" scams ever conceived. Taylor and his con artist soulmate, Ken Alexander, claim (with varying and even contradictory accounts) to be pushing "Ryman" Setters, which in fact ceased to exist the day George Ryman had his stroke in 1955. As a johnny-come-lately to the scene, Ken Alexander purchased Calkins Setters which by then had developed many genetic problems, still prominent in the DeCoverly Setters of today.
In this book (Taylor also wrote ~ if one can honestly call any of his output actual "writing" ~ "A Gentleman's Shooting Dog: Evolution of the Legendary Ryman Setter," another piece of mass-marketing hogwash and more fiction than fact), Taylor can't keep his facts straight, clearly does not know much about upland game hunting. There are too many holes in his observations from the gamebird stand-point. This book is just another ploy, another puff piece, to promote himself and Ken Alexander as being all-knowing when it comes to English Setter shooting dogs. As for his con artist buddy, Ken Alexander, as of this date it was brought to light that Alexander left DeCoverly Kennels under less than ideal circumstances and at least two groups of English Setters were surrendered by the kennel to the Bucks County SPCA, a shelter a good two hours from the kennel itself. The dogs were described as timid and skittish and although all were eventually adopted out, some were six years old at the time they were surrendered ~ which flies in the face of Alexander's long-standing claims that all the dogs were socialized and trained. These two men are nothing more than dog pimps, DeCoverly Kennels also still pimping puppies and leaning heavily on Alexander's and Taylor's fantasyland posing as a history of "Ryman" dogs which in fact, no longer exist. Anyone who purchases this or any of Taylor's other books is nothing more than an enabler, assisting and abetting a corporate puppy mill operation who (under new Pennsylvania laws) are no longer allowed to euthanize animals they no longer care to feed and instead abandon them to already-stressed animal shelters to meet whatever fate awaits them.
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