Ask The Whitetail Guides by J. Y. Jones
daverichey July 3rd, 2008
TITLE: Ask The Whitetail Guides
AUTHOR: by J. Y. Jones
PUBLISHER: Safari Press Inc
DISTIRBUTOR: Safari Press Inc
CONTACT:
Safari Press Inc
15621 Chemical Lane
Building B
Huntington Beach, CA 92649-1506
WEBSITE: Safari Press Inc
PHONE: Phone (714) 894-9080
COST $24.95 + S/H; Hardcover, dust jacket, 227 pages and b/w photos.
It seems that everyone and their twin brother has written a deer-hunting book in the past 20 years, including three by this writer. Those books, with some qualified exceptions, provide very little more than the author’s personal perspective. Often, that perspective is based on hunting in just one state or just one area within that state.
Such is not the case with Jones’ book. He draws on the skills and talents of 18 longstanding whitetail deer guides from North America, including Mexico. These guides provide definitive advice on how to hunt whitetails. Amazing enough, some of the tactics used on whitetails in Kansas will probably work in Illinois, Montana, Idaho or Nebraska.
For example, Jones offers the hunting advice of people from widely diverse areas, such as: Hal Blood of Maine; Jeff Charles of Maine; Dan Rosman of Michigan; Chris Pevey of Georgia; Charles Ruth of South Carolina; Jay Steen of Alabama; David Davis of Texas; Mike Gardner of Texas; Don White of Texas; Eric Albus of Montana; Keaton Kelso of Kansas; James Woodley of Illinois; Gary Drinkall of British Columbia; Rene and Kelly Semple of Alberta; Jim Shockey of British Columbia; Duwane Adams of Arizona; Carlos Gonzalez Hermosillo of Mexico; and Kirk Kelso of Arizona.
The table of contents covers such diverse topics as Selecting An Outfitter/Guide; The Whitetail Guides Evaluate The Hunter; Evaluating Hunting Arms; Hunting Whitetails With The Guide; Hunting Big-Woods Bucks; Hunting Old South Bucks; Hunting Brush-Country Bucks; Hunting Big-River Bucks; Hunting Cold-Country Bucks; Hunting High-Desert Bucks; and Parting Shots By The Whitetail Guides.
This book covers all types of methods and techniques from hunting the Michigan fields and woods to hunting the southwest for Coues deer. It covers such places as Maine to Alberta and British Columbia. The plains states of Kansas and others are covered as is the lowlands of South Carolina and the rich palmetto and wooded lands of Alabama.
What this book does, through its various writers, is provide sportsmen with countless different ways to hunt the whitetail deer. Some techniques that work in one place may be adapted for use in another state with similar terrain.
This book is much different than most whitetail titles, and that is just another good reason to buy it. What you’ll find here is totally different than the stuff found in other whitetail books. It’s different, and studying the many hunting methods can make you a better hunter, wherever your whitetail hunts may take you.
