A Sporting Chance by Danile Mannix

[SAFalconer]

Does anyone know of this book, A Sporting Chance by Danile Mannix? I would love to read it as it about unusual hunting methods. I don't have the money to buy it yet and was wondering if anyone had a pdf version of this book or chapters of the book. Any and all help will be much appreciated.

 

[spoonieduck]

Does anyone know of this book, A Sporting Chance by Danile Mannix? I would love to read it as it about unusual hunting methods. I don't have the money to buy it yet and was wondering if anyone had a pdf version of this book or chapters of the book. Any and all help will be much appreciated.

I've got the book. He discusses unusual hunting methods like hunting with the boomerang. To me the most interesting, though, was hunting European badgers underground with small terriers. It was so weird I suspected it was a joke. I spoke to some European hunters, though, who told me that it was a time-tested and sporting way of hunting badger. They never kill the animal. They release it to hunt on another day.

 

[SAFalconer]

Thanks. It's a book I really want to read but I don't have the money for it yet plus I can't find a copy. I managed to find a pdf version on the chapter on blowgun hunting. It was very interesting. I'm very interested to learn about all the unusual hunting methods in this book.

 

[spoonieduck]

Thanks. It's a book I really want to read but I don't have the money for it yet plus I can't find a copy. I managed to find a pdf version on the chapter on blowgun hunting. It was very interesting. I'm very interested to learn about all the unusual hunting methods in this book.

Another book you might consider, although I can't remember its name, was by the famous archer, Howard Hill. Now Hill was truly remarkable and did much of the fancy bow and arrow shooting for many of the old Hollywood Westerns. He also did the shooting--including 'splitting the arrow'--in "Robin Hood" starring Errol Flynn. Hill and Flynn were buddies. Anyway Hill wrote this book. He also made a movie about his hunting trip in Africa which I saw as an eight year old kid. Afterwards he personally came on the stage and did some fancy trick shooting. I can remember a couple of episodes in his book. He went to Canada to hunt moose but when he got out of the bush plane he could see that the guide got a strange look on his face when he saw Hill's long bow. Hill noticed a duck floating far out on the lake at maybe 500 yards and telling the guide, "Don't worry. These things are actually pretty good." He shot at the duck, intending to hit close. He skewered the duck.

Hill got a little bored with bow hunting and went to the blowgun. In his last chapter he went to Mexico where it was apparently legal to use poisoned darts and got a deer.

Another book about unusual hunting styles [I've reviewed it for Amazon] is by Sasha Siemel who hunted jaguars in the Amazon. The book is called 'Tigrero' and, in it, he hunts and kills jaguars with a spear. His dogs would bay up the cat and then Siemel would go in. Unlike a mountain lion, a jaguar usually charges. Siemel would catch it on his spear and pin it to the ground. As a kid I saw an old film of Siemel killing a jaguar this way. I wish I could get my hands on the film.

I actually wrote a couple of novels on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, "Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God" [should have been one book but my publisher insisted on two] and tried to include some of my hunting and trapping experiences as well as some of my very negative hunting experiences. If I can recall rightly, I also tried to include a few unusual hunting styles that I'd encountered in these books.

Also, if you haven't read them, I'd recommend anything by Jim Corbett. He hunted maneating tigers and leopards in India back in the 1920s. In my opinion, Corbett simply writes the greatest hunting stories, ever. Hands Down.

 

[spoonieduck]

Another book you might consider, although I can't remember its name, was by the famous archer, Howard Hill. Now Hill was truly remarkable and did much of the fancy bow and arrow shooting for many of the old Hollywood Westerns. He also did the shooting--including 'splitting the arrow'--in "Robin Hood" starring Errol Flynn. Hill and Flynn were buddies. Anyway Hill wrote this book. He also made a movie about his hunting trip in Africa which I saw as an eight year old kid. Afterwards he personally came on the stage and did some fancy trick shooting. I can remember a couple of episodes in his book. He went to Canada to hunt moose but when he got out of the bush plane he could see that the guide got a strange look on his face when he saw Hill's long bow. Hill noticed a duck floating far out on the lake at maybe 500 yards and telling the guide, "Don't worry. These things are actually pretty good." He shot at the duck, intending to hit close. He skewered the duck.

Hill got a little bored with bow hunting and went to the blowgun. In his last chapter he went to Mexico where it was apparently legal to use poisoned darts and got a deer.

Another book about unusual hunting styles [I've reviewed it for Amazon] is by Sasha Siemel who hunted jaguars in the Amazon. The book is called 'Tigrero' and, in it, he hunts and kills jaguars with a spear. His dogs would bay up the cat and then Siemel would go in. Unlike a mountain lion, a jaguar usually charges. Siemel would catch it on his spear and pin it to the ground. As a kid I saw an old film of Siemel killing a jaguar this way. I wish I could get my hands on the film.

I actually wrote a couple of novels on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, "Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God" [should have been one book but my publisher insisted on two] and tried to include some of my hunting and trapping experiences as well as some of my very negative hunting experiences. If I can recall rightly, I also tried to include a few unusual hunting styles that I'd encountered in these books.

Also, if you haven't read them, I'd recommend anything by Jim Corbett. He hunted maneating tigers and leopards in India back in the 1920s. In my opinion, Corbett simply writes the greatest hunting stories, ever. Hands Down.

By the way, "A Sporting Chance", by Mannix was, and my still be, available on Amazon. I say this because I did an Amazon review on it a number of years ago.

 

[SAFalconer]

Thanks for the info.