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An Introduction to Firearms

Your Guide to Selection, Use, Safety, and Self-Defense

By: James Morgan Ayres

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An Introduction to Firearms

Your Guide to Selection, Use, Safety, and Self-Defense

By: James Morgan Ayres

Learn everything you need to know to own and shoot firearms responsibly in this newly updated guide. Owning a firearm is a big responsibility. There’s more to it than just walking into a gun shop and walking out with a gun. In addition to knowing state laws and regulations, you’ll need to have the confidence to choose the right firearm for your needs and then learn to use it safely and effectively. An Introduction to Firearms goes beyond the basics, introducing you to the many uses of the gun, such as hunting, sporting competition, and self-defense, and includes resources for additional information on legal aspects of gun ownership, safety considerations, and gun manufacturers. Chapters of interest include coverage on: Where to Buy and Where to Shoot Hunting with Your Gun Care and Cleaning of Your Gun Gun Cabinets, Cases, and Safes Kids and Guns Defensive Shooting Skills Federal and State Gun Laws An Introduction to Firearms is the best guide available to you to ensure you have the right gun, whether you intend to use it for big game or self-defense. It’s your right to own a firearm and your duty to use it responsibly. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1629141119

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The Tactical Knife

A Comprehensive Guide to Designs, Techniques, and Uses

By: James Morgan Ayres

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The Tactical Knife

A Comprehensive Guide to Designs, Techniques, and Uses

By: James Morgan Ayres

Tactical knives are the fast-growing field of American bladesmithing. Now, in one groundbreaking volume, tactical knife expert James Morgan Ayres shares more than four decades of real-world experience with purpose-designed knives. You’ll find it all in The Tactical Knife: fixed blades, folders, defensive uses, survival uses, product reviews—in short, everything you need to make an informed decision about your choice of a tactical knife. Newly updated with specifications and reviews for new products as well as new information on recent developments in the field, James Morgan Ayres provides the latest need-to-know info on the subject for first time owners (or potential owners) of tactical knives as well as experts who want the latest intel on new products. Features inside include: Origins of the Tactical Knife The Bowie knife Tactical Knives of the Mid-twentieth Century Steel, Heat Treating, Geometry, Design, Grinds, and Forging Choosing a Tactical Knife Basic Skills, Maintenance, and Tactics Complete with hundreds of detailed color photos, tips, tactics, and techniques, The Tactical Knife is the best book out there for all your tactical knife needs. When choosing a tactical knife, don’t guess—know! Keep yourself on the cutting edge—with The Tactical Knife! Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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162914116X

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How To Sharpen A Knife & Care For Your Collection

Enjoy BLADE®’s comprehensive eBook on how to sharpen a knife, and maintain, care for, store and preserve your knives and knife collection.

By: James Morgan Ayres,Dexter Ewing

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How To Sharpen A Knife & Care For Your Collection

Enjoy BLADE®’s comprehensive eBook on how to sharpen a knife, and maintain, care for, store and preserve your knives and knife collection.

By: James Morgan Ayres,Dexter Ewing

Don’t miss this first-ever knife maintenance, sharpening and care eBook from BLADE Magazine and BladeMag.com. Researched and extensive feature articles cover how to sharpen a knife, as well as the full range of knife sharpeners, rust preventatives, lubricants, storage, display and much more. The world’s best knife writers were assigned to the task of educating readers on how to maintain, hone and care for their knives.

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F+W Media, Inc.

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144023244X

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Essential Survival Gear

A Pro’s Guide to Your Most Practical and Portable Survival Kit

By: James Morgan Ayres

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Essential Survival Gear

A Pro’s Guide to Your Most Practical and Portable Survival Kit

By: James Morgan Ayres

Disasters strike every day, but despite the best laid plans you may find yourself in one with only the clothes on your back and without a well packed first-aid kit. In Essential Survival Gear, J. Morgan Ayres explains in detail what you need to have when a dire emergency occurs, wherever you are, whoever you are. Ayres—a former Green Beret, martial arts master, and wilderness and urban survivalist—explains his four-layer concept (clothing, day bag, backpack, basic equipment and luxuries) and profiles and provides photos of a broad range of gear, with recommendations on what works best in what scenario—from cityscapes to wilderness and everywhere in between—and how to use it.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493015281

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The Tao of Survival

Skills to Keep You Alive

By: James Morgan Ayres

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The Tao of Survival

Skills to Keep You Alive

By: James Morgan Ayres

“Offers clear, concise, effective, time-tested, even hallowed, means of going into any survival situation with your ‘A’ game.”—Jim Morris, Special Forces major (retired) and award-winning author of War Story Written by a student and teacher of Asian thought, martial arts, healing, and meditation, The Tao of Survival focuses on real-world, core survival skills that can save your life anytime and anyplace, in any emergency situation. It delves into fundamental concepts that most survival books don’t cover, including how to deal with fear, developing mind/body skills, and fully engaging your senses to be aware of your surroundings. “It is not every day that one comes across a gem. And that is exactly what this book is. For anyone who is into survival—that is, into life and living—then this book is truly a precious commodity to be read by everyone.”—Mykel Hawke, author of Hawke’s Green Beret Survival Manual and Special Forces combat commander “What a great book, not only well written and informative, but actually useful. There are many fine books written on the topic of survival . . . but this is the first I've seen which comprehensively focuses on teaching the essential fundamentals of true survival.”—Dr. Carl Totton, Psy.D., director of The Taoist Institute and martial arts grandmaster “[Ayres has] always had a seeker’s perspective and has applied it well in his search to know what one needs to learn to be a survivor . . . The Tao of Survival is a masterful synthesis of what it takes to survive . . . while living in a modern world.”—David Wescott, director of Backtracks and managing editor of the Bulletin of Primitive Technology

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Gibbs Smith

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142363232X

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Survival Knives

How to Choose and Use the Right Blade

By: James Morgan Ayres

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Survival Knives

How to Choose and Use the Right Blade

By: James Morgan Ayres

Some survival guides explain the basics of how to make primitive tools. But do you know how to actually successful hunt with spear, throwing stick, bola, or primitive bow? Making tools that you do not know how to hunt with will not get you to meat. If you’re hunting with primitive weapons, especially crude survival weapons you’ve made in the field under actual survival conditions, you must adapt your strategy to the weapons available or go hungry. Author James M. Ayres grew up in the Midwest hunting squirrels, rabbits, and other small game with bows, spears, atlatls, and bolas he made myself. He has hunted with bow, spear, net, and other primitive weapons with the Lacandon in Yucatán, the Igorots in the Philippines, the K’iche’ in Guatemala, the Sasak in Indonesia, and others. In Survival Knives, he shares his knowledge so you, too, can survive using such tools and weapons. It’s not enough to have a knife and know how to make basic hunting weapons. That’s craftsmanship—not survival. Nor is it enough simply to have a knife when trapped in an emergency situation, like a collapsed building. You need to know how to conserve your knife and use it properly to escape so that it will not break and you are not injured. Learn how to use survival knives, and how to use the tools and weapons you can make with the knife—not only in wilderness, but also in urban areas, foreign countries, and disaster zones such as earthquakes, floods, fires, and civil insurrections.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510728430

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The Tactical Knife

A Comprehensive Guide to Designs, Techniques, and Uses

By: James Morgan Ayres

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A Comprehensive Guide to Designs, Techniques, and Uses

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Survival Knives

How to Choose and Use the Right Blade

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Book's by James Morgan Ayres

An Introduction to Firearms

An Introduction to Firearms

The Tactical Knife

The Tactical Knife

How To Sharpen A Knife & Care For Your Collection

How To Sharpen A Knife & Care For Your Collection

Essential Survival Gear

Essential Survival Gear

The Tao of Survival

The Tao of Survival

Survival Knives

Survival Knives

The Tactical Knife

The Tactical Knife

Survival Knives

Survival Knives

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