Hunting: Essential hunting and outdoor survival skills from the world's elite forces(SAS & Elite Forces Handbook)

With the aid of superb line artworks, the Elite Forces Handbook: Hunting demonstrates the core skills involved in being a self-reliant hunter. From tracking large game to shooting wild pheasant, this book is the essential guide to finding, killing and surviving off animals in the wild. The book offers useful tips on a vast array of topics, including laying traps, building your own weapons, deciphering tracks, skinning and butchering your kill, cooking meat and building smokehouses. It also describes various shooting techniques, as well as covering topics such as selecting firearms, choosing the right ammunition and gun maintenance. With more than 300 easy-to-follow artworks and handy pull-out lists of key information, the Elite Forces Handbook: Hunting is the definitive pocket guide for huntsmen of all levels. When nature’s all you have, you need to know how to use it to survive.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction Hunting for survival and for sport throughout history. The chapter looks at how firearms have changed hunting, but also how more basic weapons still have their place. 2. Weapons Looks at the many different types of weapon that can be used in hunting, from survival weapons such as spears and slings through to modern shotguns and rifles. Includes major sections on choosing the right firearm and ammunition for the job, and on how to make survival weapons. 3. Tracking and Hides How to find and follow your prey without detection. Includes keeping camouflaged, deciphering and following track marks, and avoiding dangers in the wilderness. Explains how to make camouflaged hunting hides. 4. Traps and Snares A step-by-step guide to building the perfect trap for any situation – snares, spear traps, deadfall traps and many others. Includes traps for birds and fish as well as rabbits and larger mammals. 5. Hunting with Dogs Dogs can save a hunter huge amounts of time and effort helping to sniff out prey and retrieve kills. The chapter explains which breeds of dog suit which style of hunting, and how to train your dog to work effectively alongside you. 6. Hunting Techniques – Birds Looks at the techniques for trapping and shooting flying game. Includes common prey types such as pigeon and pheasant, going up to large animals such as geese and wild turkey. 7. Hunting Techniques – Land Animals This chapter explores hunting techniques used to kill common mammals, from rabbits and squirrels through to large ungulates such as deer and antelope. Explains how the hunting techniques need to be adapted to different terrains. 8. Butchering, Smoking and Preparing Food Explains how to prepare your kill for safe eating, and techniques of cooking that can be practised in the wild. Also looks at methods of preserving food, such as smoking and air drying. Index

About the Author :
Chris McNab is a wilderness expert, military specialist and author of over 20 survival publications, including How to Survive Anything, Anywhere, Living off the Land, and SAS Training Manual: Endurance Techniques. He holds a PhD from the University of Wales and lives in south Wales, UK.