The Ultimate Guide to Deer Hunting

Rating:
Summary: Largely Disappointing
Review: I'm very glad I found this at the library before ordering it. This book is essentially a bunch of commercials for companies whose products the author uses and/or which are owned by his hunting buddies (e.g., the section on blackpowder which is one big ad for rifles made by pal Tony Knight) interspersed with yarn after yarn which relate ad nauseam what a deadeye Richey is in a ground blind or treestand. I understand that an instructor has to establish his credibility AND illustrate that his lessons work, but the me-great-hunter stuff gets old in a hurry. If you were to cull the useful information out of this book of stories, it would amount to about two type-written pages.

This Lyons Press edition is also a retread. The work was originally published in 1986 by Outdoor Life Books as Hunting Fringeland Deer. That was a much more accurate title; I'm afraid this one isn't the "Ultimate Guide" to anything. See any of the Greg Miller books instead.

Rating:
Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK
Review: Please ignore the first reviewers comments. He must be reviewing the wrong book. This book as NO advertisment in it so it must be another book he meant to review so I will not fault him for giving this book such a poor rating. This was so good that I had to look it up on Amazon and write a review on it. I bought it at the store but I do a lot of shopping on amazon. This book has tons of factural information and a lot of good stories about hunts and how they were planned and how they went. The author of this book was very subjective in his words and appears to be an expert on the subject. I would reccoment this book above all others on this subject.