Boone and Crockett Club's Complete Guide to Hunting Whitetails

Deer Hunting Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Success in the Field

Craig Boddington, Gordon Whittington, Larry Weishuhn, Bill Winke

• Publisher: Boone and Crockett Club
• eBook ISBN:
  9781940860015
• Year: 2014

The best-known name in trophy big game hunting teams up with the world’s most knowledgeable deer experts to present the definitive resource for the whitetail hunter. Equally illuminating to both beginning and seasoned hunters, this engagingly written guide is packed with real-world strategies and exclusive data to help hunters beat the odds in today’s changing environment of dwindling public land access, evolving deer population dynamics and new hunting technologies. Learn how to pinpoint the ideal places, dates and times to find trophy whitetails—and then identify a record-book buck before pulling the trigger. The guide includes fully updated, illustrated instructions for scoring your own trophy.

Contributors include biologist and TV personality Larry Weishuhn, noted outdoor writer Bill Winke and Gordon Whittington, editor of North American Whitetail. In addition, hunters Glen Salow, Rene Barrientos and Ken Hayworth explain the tactics that helped them each bag multiple record whitetails. The book also features proprietary trophy whitetail data collected and analyzed by the Boone and Crockett Club, America’s premier wildlife conservation organization.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• How to Score Whitetail Deer
• Field Judging Whitetail Deer
• The Perfect Shot
• Aging Whitetail on the Hoof
• Whitetail Hunting— Tactics, Techniques and Insights
• Statistics Behind the Trophies
• Reference Section