Whitetail Strategies: A No-Nonsense Approach to Successful Deer Hunting

This book presents the basics of deer hunting in an informative and practical manner. It covers such areas as scents, calling, rattling, scrapes, and ruts. One of the aspects the author describes is how important scent is in the world of the deer. I thought the information was very useful. The author has many years of practical experience and he does a good job of trying to pass on this information to beginning hunters. This is a very good resource for a new deer hunter.

I wish I'd read this book years ago. There were many times that I read something and a little light lit up because of things I'd seen in the field but hadn't really understood. The common sense approach is great. I've never been a great believer in scent reduction because everything else I'd read/seen made little sense. I know that I smell after a bit of hiking. Why go through a brunch of stuff to get rid of every human smell? Well, that actually gets addressed. I also liked the bit about what the various deer scents mean to critters. And the stuff about calling, and rattling, and ... I'm glad I read this book instead of watching more infomercial videos.

The author relates his experience to even the most novice hunter (myself). He has a scientific, common-sense approach to deer hunting that gives confidence in his methods and makes you want to use them. His section on deer vocalizations can be confusing, but who can communicate inarticulate sounds thru plain text... However, it is fairly easy to find recordings of deer calls on the internet to clarify this matter.

This book is not out of print and is still available. It is available in the hard cover edition. Excellent source for deer hunting know-how in a straight-forward manner. A book you'll refer to time and time again.

Thanks to Mr. Fidduccia's wonderfull section on Late Rut, I bagged a nice 12-point! To whoever reads this: I strongly recommend you purchase this book. It is well worth the money!!