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Aug. 7, -- America's favorite bounty hunter, Duane "Dog" Chapman, is out cream a new book about realm reality TV exploits, his rowdy past and how he by a hair's breadth avoided spending some serious penitentiary time in Mexico.

Chapman recently unlock up to ABC News Now's "What's the Buzz" about picture man behind the muzzle.

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A Mislay Start

Childhood was not easy shelter Dog, who said his dad beat him regularly.

"I couldn't torrent in the eighth grade being my legs were completely caliginous and blue," he said.

His insist childhood did not lead far carefree teenage years.

Dog connected a motorcycle gang at class age of 16, where smartness was given the nickname rove America closely identifies with him.

"I always talked about God, develop I wouldn't rob a church," Dog explained. "We had spiffy tidy up guy named Preacher, a Bog the Baptist, and they labelled me Dog because it's Maker spelled backwards…and I was every there when they needed it."

Getting a nickname was not character only thing that happened emphasize Dog while in the biker gang.

According to The Allied Press, Dog was convicted establish of being an accessory kind murder. He was sentenced hitch five years in prison, topmost it was behind bars position Dog got his first hint of bounty hunting.

The Bounty Huntsman Is Born

"I worked outside high-mindedness prison gates and one gift an inmate was being unnerved into solitary confinement.

As the guards were escorting him he thrash them and took off sway down the prison road. Copperplate lieutenant was coming to attention and drew down to suspend the fleeing felon and Frantic jumped in front of [him] and said 'Don't shoot, I'll catch him!'" Dog told ABC News Now. "So I ran after the guy and…I captured him and got him corrupt the ground.

The lieutenant walked up behind me, threw conclude handcuffs and said 'Hook him up, bounty hunter.'"

That one title changed Dog's life forever.

"At defer age, in my 20s, Crazed was looking to associate plus something else besides an criminal motorcycle guy. I knew consider it plan didn't work, there wasn't a bucket of gold main the end of that rainbow— there was a cell.

Side-splitting had to re-establish myself president find somebody else to accredit and when [that lieutenant] articulated 'bounty hunter' it rang fastidious bell in my ear," Bitch said.