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Whitetail: Behavior Through the Seasons
More than 160 striking action shots by an award-winning photographer and author reveal a rarely seen side of North America's most impressive game animal. His in-the-field observations will help hunters better understand all aspects of the whitetail deer, from breeding to bedding. Nature lovers and hunters will love this stunning book.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1996
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November 8, 2019
The book White-Tail Behavior, by Jim Roy, was a must-read! The whole story was telling you about how to shoot a deer. The strategies the author said was how do you know what time to be out hunting or that you only have so much daylight to hunt.
In the beginning of the book, Roy tells the reader what time of day is best to go hunting, and stuff like that. Then, in the middle of the story, he talks about the deer and their bedding spots. In Roy’s book, the reader will learn that deer have two bedding spots. Each night, deer walk all day from one bedding spot to the next one. The next night they walk back. At the end of the book, Roy tells you that with everything you’ve learned along the way, you’re ready to go out into the woods and hunt a deer.
I really liked this book and I also like to deer hunt so that's what caught my interest on this book why i like the book. It's a very fun sport I really liked this book because it was based on hunting. Even if you don't like hunting I still think its a very good book to read because its organized very well. The author tells you exactly what is allowed and not allowed. I like the author's way he rights because it keeps your interest in the book. It wasn't just dos and don'ts on every page if it told you I rule it tells you why it's a rule. This is why I recommend a book like this.
In the beginning of the book, Roy tells the reader what time of day is best to go hunting, and stuff like that. Then, in the middle of the story, he talks about the deer and their bedding spots. In Roy’s book, the reader will learn that deer have two bedding spots. Each night, deer walk all day from one bedding spot to the next one. The next night they walk back. At the end of the book, Roy tells you that with everything you’ve learned along the way, you’re ready to go out into the woods and hunt a deer.
I really liked this book and I also like to deer hunt so that's what caught my interest on this book why i like the book. It's a very fun sport I really liked this book because it was based on hunting. Even if you don't like hunting I still think its a very good book to read because its organized very well. The author tells you exactly what is allowed and not allowed. I like the author's way he rights because it keeps your interest in the book. It wasn't just dos and don'ts on every page if it told you I rule it tells you why it's a rule. This is why I recommend a book like this.
July 14, 2020
A coffee table book about whitetail deer. There's some nice photographs, and it goes a little into deer behavior and how to photograph deer with the equipment of the time, which is interesting if very shallow.
The author is a hunter, and seems to be sensible about how the aims of trophy hunters can run cross purpose to the value of hunters culling the population. But he's also the type of Christian who's all about the stewardship of man over animals, which is when it gets stupid. He devalues and dismisses natural predators for deer, and seems to think the best solution is for hunters to be less obsessed with big antlers, and everyone else be less mean to hunters, and instead of letting nature take care of itself let people do the job entirely. I'll grant this was before the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone showed the value of that, but it's still a deeply annoying stance to see.
The author is a hunter, and seems to be sensible about how the aims of trophy hunters can run cross purpose to the value of hunters culling the population. But he's also the type of Christian who's all about the stewardship of man over animals, which is when it gets stupid. He devalues and dismisses natural predators for deer, and seems to think the best solution is for hunters to be less obsessed with big antlers, and everyone else be less mean to hunters, and instead of letting nature take care of itself let people do the job entirely. I'll grant this was before the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone showed the value of that, but it's still a deeply annoying stance to see.
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