The BAREBOW! BEAR BOOK (The BAREBOW! BOOK — An Archer's Fair-Chase Taking of North America's Big-Game 29 3)
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The BAREBOW! BEAR BOOK (The BAREBOW! BOOK — An Archer's Fair-Chase Taking of North America's Big-Game 29 3)
Republished here in e-Book format, this is Volume THREE in a seven-volume series, presenting all the stories, art work, and other material drawn from the four, different, bear-species chapters in the original hardcover, coffee-table book that came out in September of 2008. That book, BAREBOW!, which won five national awards in 2010, contains 104 stories of true adventure and misadventure, chronicling the personal odyssey of author Dennis Dunn, as he pursued and eventually accomplished something that no one had ever done before: namely, the harvesting — with bow and arrow only (barebow) — of all 29 huntable big-game species on the North American continent. "Barebow" means that the archer uses no yardage sight-pins or other aiming devices attached to the riser of the bow above the arrow rest. In other words, purely instinctive shooting is the only system in play. To many, this constitutes the ultimate challenge in fair-chase hunting.
This third volume in the new digital BAREBOW! BOOK series contains 23 stories of excitement, terror, humor, and suspense — all experienced by the author in his determination to arrow a large male specimen of each of the North American bear species (BLACK BEAR, POLAR BEAR, GRIZZLY BEAR, and ALASKAN BROWN BEAR). The four chapters in this volume are titled with the names of those four species. In addition, you will find here the same comprehensive, taxonomic and biological information which made the parent book an encyclopedic reference work on ALL North American big game.
The original Masterwork (hardcover) is still available for sale on a number of different websites, including Amazon.
The reader is invited to visit the author's website at www.str8arrows.com, where one can view video footage of Dunn arrowing his Pope & Young World's Record Grizzly Bear from eight yards distant. Also, one can watch his Alaskan Brownie being taken from just five yards! Many book reviews, testimonials, and even two short-story excerpts, are also posted there — one of them drawn from the GRIZZLY BEAR chapter (taken from a story titled, "The Hacksaw Trick").
All the books are designed to appeal to the hunter and non-hunter alike. For that reason, they contain no "hero photos" of the author with any of his trophies at the kill-site. That omission, however, is more than compensated for by the remarkable and abundant wildlife art of wildlife artists Hayden and Dallen Lambson, a highly-revered father/son team from Pocatello, Idaho. Taken as a whole, The BAREBOW! BOOK is truly 50% a stunning Fine Art book, and 50% a Treasury of compelling outdoor adventure stories.