• Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
The Complete Guide to Mule Deer Hunting: Tactics and Techniques for Good results
Deer hunting has usually been termed difficult, humbling, and ceremonial. This is since to do it properly, a hunter has so considerably to learn-including learning about mule deer habitats, and how deer use those habitats at various times of the year, and
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Cost: $ 9.59
Category: Hunting
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An excellent book,
I think Sam Curtis’ book is excellent for several reasons. First, Curtis provides an extensive examination of mule deer hunting in different togographical regions. He analyzes how to hunt muleys in foothill/mountain regions, on the Great Plains, in coulees, in alpine areas, and elsewhere. Readers will likely find information relevant to their particular hunting region. Second, Curtis draws on both many years of personal experience as well as professional biological research. The combination provides a nice balance between ancedote and objective facts. Third, Curtis explains a number of very practical tactics to use when hunting muleys in a variety of situations. I found his advice on how to pursue spooked mule deer very helpful. Fourth, the book is clearly written. Finally — and perhaps most importantly — Curtis communicates not just disparate facts and tactics about mule deer hunting, but *understanding* of mule deer and their environment — what their habits are, how they respond to varoius weather patterns and dynamics, how they react to hunting pressure, how bucks function in rut and non-rut times, how they use topography, what their core habitat is, and so on. So many hunting books today are largely ‘how to’ books; they do not take the extra step of communicating a mentality or cognitive strategy about how to think. Curtis does this admirably. I enjoyed this book as much as I did Dwight Schuh’s Hunting Open-Country Mule Deer.
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|Overpriced information.,
Although I generally believe in the axiom of “you get what you pay for”, this book by Sam Curtis is an expensive lesson in exceptions to that rule. It is not so much that the book is really bad, it’s just not very good. He does provide a lot of legitimate information on the biology of the mule deer and its habitat, but many of the conclusions he draws about tactics for hunting them are suspicious at best. I lived in Montana for 15 years and I have hunted extensively in many of the same areas Curtis talks about in the book, . He make HUGE generalizations about mule deer behavior which are supported by a few flimsy observations in the field. Many of these I have found to be arguable at best, and purely wrong at worst. This pattern goes on and on in the book. There are several books that are great resources for the serious mule deer hunter; this is not one of them.
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|A few really good chapters, a lot of mediocre chapters,
This book gives a lot of good information about where to find deer and how to approach them, but a lot of the information if very basic and is repeated too often. Repetition is good to some degree, but after six or seven times, you just want some new information. Depending on where you hunt, the book gives information on a lot of different terrain. For me, I don’t ever plan to hunt some of the terrain he addresses, so it was wasted space. Overall, not a bad book, just pick and choose which chapters you read.
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