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    Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
    ISBN
    9780961727994

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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Ducks Unlimited, Incorporated
    ISBN-10
    0961727993
    ISBN-13
    9780961727994
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    2278770

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Don't Shoot the Decoys : Original Stories of Waterfowling Obsession
    Number of Pages
    256 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Year
    2002
    Topic
    Hunting, General
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Nature, Sports & Recreation
    Author
    Doug Larsen
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Length
    8.5 in
    Item Width
    5.5 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    2002-006332
    Dewey Edition
    21
    Dewey Decimal
    799.2/44
    Synopsis
    Waterfowlers may be passionate-even obsessive-about their sport, but at least they don't take themselves too seriously. That's because duck and goose hunting is so often a humbling experience. In that respect, these 20 stories by Doug Larson are like the classic wildfowl tales of, say, Gordon MacQuarrie-that is, they celebrate the sport of waterfowling while tickling the funny bone. But while Larson is in many ways a traditionalist when it comes to waterfowling-and storytelling-his voice is refreshingly new. Larson's subject, in fact, is the modern hunter's struggle to come to terms with the past while living fully in the present. For instance, while he expresses a love for the hardy duck chasers in canvas coats who humped dozens of cork decoys through mud and mire to secret blinds, he also admits "adapting" to the comforts and conveniences of four-wheel ATVs, portable blind heaters, hollow-body plastic decoys, and polyester "fleece" parkas. On the other hand, he takes pokes at the modern trend to overcomplicate the sport. "Whatever happened to throwing rocks?" he asks in a chapter on motion decoys. Though the book finds humor in the "small" moments associated with duck and goose hunting, it occasionally delivers a real zinger that will bring tears to the reader's eyes, as in the hilarious chapter titled "Concrete," in which Larsen discovers what can happen when a son takes his non-hunting dad waterfowling for the first time.
    LC Classification Number
    SK331.L37 2002

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