The BAREBOW! ELK BOOK (The BAREBOW! BOOK — An Archer's Fair-Chase Taking of North America's Big-Game 29 2)
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The BAREBOW! ELK BOOK (The BAREBOW! BOOK — An Archer's Fair-Chase Taking of North America's Big-Game 29 2)
Republished here in e-Book format, this is Book TWO in a seven-volume series, presenting all the stories, art work, and other material drawn from the three, different, elk-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.
The original Masterwork (hardcover) is still available for sale on a number of different websites, including Amazon.
This second volume of the digital BAREBOW! BOOK series contains eight different stories recounting the author's challenging quest to harvest (barebow) a mature bull of each of the three N. A. ELK species. The three chapters are titled, "AMERICAN (ROCKY MOUNTIAIN) ELK", ROOSEVELT'S (OLYMPIC) ELK", and "TULE ELK". Unlike the other six volumes in this e-Book series, the BAREBOW! ELK BOOK contains three BRAND-NEW stories not included in the original hardcover — nor published anywhere else. It also offers several new elk drawings by Dallen Lambson that were not part of the print version of the book.
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.
If you enjoy being an armchair adventurer, with literature that will never put you to sleep, nor expose you personally to the hazards of setting foot in the wilderness yourself, then the seven volumes in this exciting e-Book series should definitely be on your "bucket list"!
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 a stunning Fine Art book (50%), as well as a Treasury of compelling outdoor adventure stories (50%).