Hunting Big Woods Bucks

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Summary: Disapointing
Review: As a twenty plus year hunter of big woods Bucks in northern Minnesota I held high hopes for this book.
It was a disapointment from start to finish!
It proposes to provide insight and strategies into hunting Northern whitetails and only offers sporadic stories of various hunts Hal Blood has participated in.
Look elsewhere!

Rating:
Summary: No way does Hal take a backseat to the Berniers or Benoits!
Review: I have all their books, all provide some interesting reading. I find Hals book straight to the point, full of good tips and he doesnt even spend 1/2 the time tooting his own horn like in the others books. Hals book is 1 to keep for a lifetime, a reference book.

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Summary: If I ever hunt northern Maine I'll reread this book
Review: I hunt large public forests in Ohio and Kentucky and thought this book would have some helpful advice. It didn't have much. The techniques he talks about are not likely to be as useful in snowless higher deer density areas.



Rating:
Summary: Hunting big woods bucks
Review: I've read the Benoits books (twice), and this book beats them. This guy really hunts like everyone else WANTS to hunt. He can track, sit, rattle, drive. Hal Blood will be the next great deerhunter in the Northeast. I've already booked a spot in his camp for this fall. It's almost impossible to book a one on one hunt with him. I read the book twice before I gave it to a friend. He booked the hunt with me.

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Summary: Better for the Northern Hunter
Review: This book really seems to cover the most effective hunting tactics for those of us in the colder climates. It deals with tracking (especially in snow) quite a bit. It also deals with deer behavior and the probable reasons for this behavior. I have learned a lot from this book and plan on using the tactics explained and looking for bucks in places covered here. I love how the lessons learned are interspersed with good hunting stories to back up the lesson. Not all the stories are success stories either. Mr Blood does a good job explaining the hunt and respecting it, whether it leads to a harvest or not.

Rating:
Summary: Better buy for the ($) buck!
Review: Worth reading. Having read Larry Benoit (How to Bag the biggest buck of your life), there are several similarities. However, Hal goes one step further by discussing several methods of bagging that trophy buck. I did note that both hunters use the same firearm (Remington 30-06 pump w/iron sights).
Personally, I feel this is a better book for the buck (pun intended)with multiple ways of getting the biggest buck of your life. Hal's book gives you a good start on what to look for when beginning tracking, stand hunting, using a grunt tube etc. Larry Benoit covers tracking only. Personally, I feel this book covers tracking equally as well as Larry Benoit does w/his book. Do what I did read em both, but if your budget is tight I'd buy this one!

Rating:
Summary: Better buy for the ($) buck!
Review: Worth reading. Having read Larry Benoit (How to Bag the biggest buck of your life), there are several similarities. However, Hal goes one step further by discussing several methods of bagging that trophy buck. I did note that both hunters use the same firearm (Remington 30-06 pump w/iron sights).
Personally, I feel this is a better book for the buck (pun intended)with multiple ways of getting the biggest buck of your life. Hal's book gives you a good start on what to look for when beginning tracking, stand hunting, using a grunt tube etc. Larry Benoit covers tracking only. Personally, I feel this book covers tracking equally as well as Larry Benoit does w/his book. Do what I did read em both, but if your budget is tight I'd buy this one!