THE DEER HUNTER'S ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY: FULL EXPLANATIONS OF MORE THAN 600 TERMS AND PHRASES USED BY DEER HUNTERS PAST AND PRESENT. By Dr. Leonard Lee Rue III.

2001 1st edition. 4to (185 x 240mm). Ppx,341. Colour and b/w photographs by the author. Green paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, spine titled in green.

A dictionary of terms related to deer and deer stalking. "...a compendium of popular and and not-so-popular words and phrases used by deer hunters from Maine to Texas. Listed alphabetically and liberally illustrated with black-and-white photographs, the entries include everything from abomasum (the deer's 'true stomach') and annual recruitment to flehman (the buck's way of testing the air to determine whether the doe is in estrus) to zeroing in. The Deer Hunter's Illustrated Dictionary provides the reader with the data needed to study, understand, and appreciate these adaptable animals throughout the course of the year. Informative and entertaining, the Dictionary is a book no one with an interest in deer and / or deer hunting should be without."