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Michael P. McCarty

@huntbook

Antiquarian Bookseller, Blogger, And Active Member Outdoor Writers Association of America

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Michael P. McCarty
@huntbook Aug 5, 2018, 10:40 PM UTC

A Day With Elk

I don't suppose that I will ever tire of seeing elk. A day with elk, will be a good day indeed... A young bull elk walks into the rising sun in the high desert of Colorado Photograph by Michael Patri…

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Michael P. McCarty
@huntbook Jul 30, 2018, 7:43 PM UTC

Edward Ruscha Puts The Pop in Pop (Art)

A Rare Offering From Out Inventory: Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Ruscha, Edward $1250.00 First edition. Wraps. Cunningham Press, Alhambra (1968). One of 2400 unnumbered copies, 64 pages,…

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Michael P. McCarty
@huntbook Jul 26, 2018, 7:13 PM UTC

A Big Game Hunter's Dream Team

A Boone & Crockett Record Book class Mule Deer is an extraordinary animal by any measure. Scarce as hen's teeth they be, and it would be reasonable to speculate that a hunter could spend an entir…

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Michael P. McCarty
@huntbook Jul 26, 2018, 1:46 AM UTC

When Animals Become Art

No - this is not a water color painting! But it is a recent photograph of a very large mule deer buck, captured in the low light at the end of day, surrounded by the heavy smoke of the terrible fires…

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Michael P. McCarty
@huntbook Jul 8, 2018, 8:18 PM UTC

Some New Found Friends

A small group of Rocky Mountain Elk of the bullish kind, caught on a game camera in Western Colorado on an early summer day. Photograph by Michael Patrick McCarty Active Member Outdoor Writers Associ…

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Michael P. McCarty
@huntbook May 30, 2018, 6:51 PM UTC

A Bad Day to Be A Goose

There are days when it is great to be a goose hunter, and some days when it is not so good to be a goose. Here is an image not often seen, probably because most of us are busy shooting at things rath…

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Michael P. McCarty
@huntbook May 28, 2018, 8:31 PM UTC

A Monkey In A Tree

My neighbor is an artist - a sculptor of wire, found things, and other materials. Hence, I never know what new item of interest will naturally appear in her yard, nor how long it will hand around. To…

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Michael P. McCarty
@huntbook May 28, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

Follow The Signs - For Elk

Elk leave behind a lot of evidence of their passing for those who look. Rubs on branches and brush are some of the signs that I love to find, because it usually indicates that something with large an…

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Michael P. McCarty
@huntbook May 28, 2018, 6:52 PM UTC

Beauty On the Wing - Of A Wild Turkey

A close-up view of some feathers from a mature Merriam's Gobbler, harvested in the high mountain's of western Colorado in the Spring of 2018. It was an epic hunt too, but that's another story... Long…

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Michael P. McCarty
@huntbook Apr 2, 2018, 7:49 PM UTC

The Mysterious Illuminated Bookplate Of The New World Order

The image contained above is of a bookplate that I found a few years ago in a book first published in 1917. The author, and the book itself would seem on the surface inconsequential, but the bookplat…

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