Book
Description
“Rooster!” is a vivid and personal portrait of one of North America’s great outdoor experiences. From small eastern coverts to vast western grain and CRP fields, pheasant hunting brings together families and friends, hunters and gods, and guns and gear – all in pursuit of brilliantly colored magical birds.
The entire experience is captured in 160 extraordinary color photos by Dale Spartas, an award-winning photographer specializing in hunting, fishing, sporting dogs, and the outdoors. His unique photographic vision and skill created the enormousl popular books “Just Labs”, “Just Goldens”, 101 Uses for a Lab”, and “The Little Book of Fly Fishing”.
“Rooster!” is also loaded with information from a dozen of today’s finest outdoor writers. Readers will find field-tested advice on hunting techniques, guns, shooting, dogs, seasonal strategies, and more. Special emphasis is placed on conservation, land stewardship, and youth hunters.
A unique chapter gathers 57 personal hunting tips from pheasant hunters across the country, and local experts provide detailed information about hunting in the top pheasant states of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota. In all, “Rooster!” is a full game bag of spectacular images and valuable information, a one-of-a-kind guidebook, memorable keepsake, and treasured gift for pheasant hunters everywhere.
About
the Author
Since 1976, Dale C. Spartas has been an outdoor photographer and writer, whose work has allowed him the pleasure of hunting, fishing, and subsequently photographing a vast array of outdoor activities. His assignments have taken him not only across the United States and its surrounding waters, but to countries such as Canada, Africa, South America and Iceland.
Dale has had more than 6,700 photographs published, including 250 magazine covers. Dale is on the masthead of Gray’s Sporting Journal and has had more than 70 photo essays published in Gray’s since 1985. He is also on the masthead of Sports Afield, Trout Magazine,and Flyfish America. Editorially Dale is frequently published in Sports Afield, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, American Hunter, Retriever Journal, Pointing Dog Journal, Men's Journal, Town & Country, Flyfisherman, Gun Dog, Wing & Shot, Wildfowl and in Orvis Catalogs.
Dale's commercial clients include Orvis, C.C. Filson, McAlister, Remington Arms, Sig-Arms, Browning Arms, Winchester, 7 Lakes Lodge, Hatchet Lake Lodge, and Turneffe Island Lodge.
Reviews
“Photographer and pheasant hunter Dale C. Spartas has put together a book that truly captures the excitement, fun, friendships, and challenges of hunting the wily ring-necked pheasant. It’s the perfect gift for the 2.3 million pheasant hunters in the United States.”
Howard Vincent, CEO of Pheasants Forever
Outside Bozeman: Rooster: A Tribute to Pheasant Hunting in North America
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