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A Waterfowler's Bedside Book [Paperback]

Eric Begbie (Author)
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December 4, 2006
A superb collection of waterfowling and wildfowling tales from a well known waterfowler. It covers duck hunting and goose shooting in Britain, America and Canada and deserves a place at every goose and duck hunter's bedside. Second enlarged edition.

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Lulu.com (December 4, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 141167023X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1411670235
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,700,422 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Eric Begbie lives in Scotland and is interested in country sports, photography and travel. His books include several titles on wildfowling and gundog training and, in addition, he has written well over 2000 articles for national and international magazines.

He has served on the national council of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation as well as many other national and local clubs and societies. He is active in other sports such as curling, fishing and lawn bowls.

Although based in Britain, his travels have taken him extensively to North America, where he has spent time in 43 US states and 5 Canadian provinces. He has also visited many European countries as well as New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong and many Caribbean islands.

His photographic interests are mainly landscape, wildlife and still life, using Nikon digital and film cameras and Mamiya medium-format.

 

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1.0 out of 5 stars Dreadful stuff, July 5, 2011
This review is from: A Waterfowler's Bedside Book (Paperback)
I can't get through it.

Any book on waterfowling that starts with a two page explination by the author of why he is the most highly regarded and most widely read authority that ever lived is off on the wrong foot.

Then it goes badly from there.

Being a Scot only scots are the true sportsmen, any others need game laws to govern them, but not Scots they are the only honorable waterfowlers ever created. Well anyone that hunts with an 8 gauge and takes 70 yard shots is not a sportsman or a wildfowler in my book, and he does both.

As I plowed through it it became clear that only his dogs are the world beaters and no better dogs have ever been seen in modern ages, only his guns and manner of hunting is the artful way.

He spends his time in the marsh composing letters on politics and is obviosuly one of these stuffed shirts that you must routinely and regularly stroke his ego by clapping him on the back and declaring that he hs the finest gun, the finest dogs, the best liquo and finest ability with all the above.

The moment you stop proclaiming him the best of the best, you will find yourself without an invitation to his hunting club.

The last thing we need in today's age of "buy a duck" and wild consumerism is for more young hunters and neophytes to be shunned by windbags like this guy and forced into the Cabelas mindset of 'spend more get more game'.

I recall my brothers and I meeting a fella launching his duckboat along ours one morning and he was wearing an odd little bright red pin, my brother passing time remarked, ' very nice pin there, where did you get it?' and the stuffed shirt replied with his nose in the air, " attend Harvard" ...what a jerk. What fool shows up duck hunting wearing his school pin? Who had a school pin??
I don't regret shoving him in the marsh and I don't regret telling you to shove this stuffed shirt author into the muck too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice One, August 21, 2010
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One of the few books to have stories about waterfowling and wildfowling on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
longshore gunner, wildfowling clubs, gundog training, goose call, shotgun range, duck flight
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North America, South Carolina, Sod's Law, Loch Leven, Shooting Times, Mistik Lodge, David Wielicki, Patrick Keen, The New Wildfowler, Shadow Grass, North Queich
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