Hitch
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Here's a book certainly to be of interest to many of you. It's not a new book, so some of you may already have read it. But the third edition is expanded and worth the time, even if you have already read a previous edition.
I wrote Dr. Reiger after reading his book. Here is a portion of the email recieved in reply.
Dear John,
Thank you for that wonderful e-mail. I'm very happy that you found the book so helpful.
I began waterfowl hunting on Lake Okeechobee in the 1950s, when I was a teenager. The lake was then almost pristine and the hunting was superb. My two older brothers (one of whom is indeed George Reiger) and I joined our father out on the edge of the open water and shot mainly ringnecks and lesser scaup. If we had only stopped closer to the dike as we headed out of Fisheating Creek, we would have had better shooting on puddle ducks, but as you know, ringnecks fly like bats out of hell and are a real challenge to kill cleanly. We also liked them because they decoy so nicely.
It was my oldest brother Tony, not George, who got us all into hunting, and when I shot my first duck on the lake, a hen ringneck, his only comment to me when I brought it back to the blind, was, "Did you shoot it flying?" Thus, it was Tony who not only introduced me to the gift of hunting but to what I call in the book "the code of the sportsman."
After getting my Ph.D. in 1970, I taught at the University of Miami for twelve years and did a lot of duck hunting in south Florida, especially on Lake Trafford. Before the bass fishermen poisoned the lake to get rid of "excess weeds," Trafford often produced tremendous shooting.
Best regards,
John
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As Dr. Reiger noted, George Reiger is his brother. Dr. John Reiger shares his brother's talent for writing, IMO. Dr. Reiger's book is a fast and great read...things every hunter and waterfowler should know.
Here is a link to his book.
http://www.amazon.com/...Reiger/dp/0870714872
You may also find this interesting...here is a link to an interview Dr. Reiger gave to the Sierra Club...
http://www.sierraclub.org/...rtsmen/people/reiger
Hitch
I wrote Dr. Reiger after reading his book. Here is a portion of the email recieved in reply.
Dear John,
Thank you for that wonderful e-mail. I'm very happy that you found the book so helpful.
I began waterfowl hunting on Lake Okeechobee in the 1950s, when I was a teenager. The lake was then almost pristine and the hunting was superb. My two older brothers (one of whom is indeed George Reiger) and I joined our father out on the edge of the open water and shot mainly ringnecks and lesser scaup. If we had only stopped closer to the dike as we headed out of Fisheating Creek, we would have had better shooting on puddle ducks, but as you know, ringnecks fly like bats out of hell and are a real challenge to kill cleanly. We also liked them because they decoy so nicely.
It was my oldest brother Tony, not George, who got us all into hunting, and when I shot my first duck on the lake, a hen ringneck, his only comment to me when I brought it back to the blind, was, "Did you shoot it flying?" Thus, it was Tony who not only introduced me to the gift of hunting but to what I call in the book "the code of the sportsman."
After getting my Ph.D. in 1970, I taught at the University of Miami for twelve years and did a lot of duck hunting in south Florida, especially on Lake Trafford. Before the bass fishermen poisoned the lake to get rid of "excess weeds," Trafford often produced tremendous shooting.
Best regards,
John
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As Dr. Reiger noted, George Reiger is his brother. Dr. John Reiger shares his brother's talent for writing, IMO. Dr. Reiger's book is a fast and great read...things every hunter and waterfowler should know.
Here is a link to his book.
http://www.amazon.com/...Reiger/dp/0870714872
You may also find this interesting...here is a link to an interview Dr. Reiger gave to the Sierra Club...
http://www.sierraclub.org/...rtsmen/people/reiger
Hitch
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