Whitetails: A Research Based Hunting Model

by A. Robert Sheppard

Biological research in recent years has brought to light much concerning the nutrition, biology, and habitat of the whitetail. But there has always been a paucity of hard data involved in the actual hunting of whitetails. This book brings to bear more than twenty years of didactic research concerning the weather conditions that drive the daytime movement activities of the whitetail. Dr. Sheppard has prospectively joined together data from Bent Creek Lodge, one of the South’s largest commercial hunting operations and data from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather database to study daytime whitetail movement patterns in ways never before considered. An intense statistical analysis of these unique data uncovers some of the most profound insights known to date concerning daytime whitetail activities. More than 35,000 hunter days of data have been accumulated and blended with daily weather data to provide practical information that can, and should, change the way you think about whitetails, and definitely the way you hunt them.

307 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 16, 2018

Reviews

[Charlie Whitehurst · Rating 1 out of 5]

This guy is so pretentious. On top of that, his data analytics are trash, and unexplained trash at that. Also, his advice is unrealistic. Never hunt a south wind in Alabama? Really?! And his advice is to only hunt in perfect conditions. That only works for people like him who can leave work and go hunting whenever they want. For the rest of us who don't have an Everest-sized mountain of privilege, the advice in this book is generally useless. Also, there's a completely unrelated, fundamentalist Christian history of the world according to his reading of the Bible shoe-horned into the end of the book, where he shoves his religious beliefs in your face and doesn't mention deer hunting once. Utter trash. Don't waste your time.

[Rye Bailey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty basic book about hunting terrain features which funnel animals between bedding and feeding. He did have some decent insight on weather effects on deer movement and hunting success. At times it seemed a bit oversimplified. Still a decent and easy read. I finished the whole book reading it in about 3 sittings. I didn’t learn a whole lot of new info, but still glad I bought this.