Provides insights into bow-hunter behavior, state-by-state deer facts and trends, and includes chapters devoted to selecting gear. 75 photos.

Deer Hunters' Almanactrade; 2006 is packed with the latest hunting information from the experts at Deer & Deer Hunting magazine. The tips and hints found in this guide give deer hunters of all levels of experience tools for improving the hunt. Deer hunters will find valuable details for a successful day in the woods in chapters devoted to bow and gun hunting, deer biology and state-by-state deer harvest information. The comprehensive report of each state's deer harvest includes specific trends in bow, gun and total deer harvests. In this "Farmer's Almanac for deer hunting," special sections guide bowhunters through strength conditioning techniques; offer tips for bowhunting on a budget; scoring a buck and provide updated information on the newest tools of the trade - bows, rifles, shotguns and muzzleloaders. middot; Reports of recent whitetail trends for each state provide hunters with a state-by-state study middot; Techniques and tips for improving hunting skills assist hunters of various experiences middot; Detailed deer harvest data guides hunters in planning for hunts

Hundreds of fascinating whitetail statistics, tips, tidbits and lore make the Deer Hunter's 1998 Almanac an invaluable pocket guide and reference. This year's edition features complete state-by-state hunting regulations; numerous tasty venison recipes; updated Boone & Crockett and Pope & Young whitetail records; and antler scoring sheets, with complete how-to for scoring racks; plus much more. New and improved for 1998 is state-by-state harvest information, including intriguing case studies on deer trends for several states; a rat-hunter's guide to harvest moon dates through 2006; and a complete calendar of moon phases for 1998.

From the Introduction: "There is not a successful deer hunter in the world who has not come up with his own peculiar methods -- some of them secret, some not -- for beating the long odds of killing a deer. The Ojibwa Indians of the Great Lakes figured out they could attract deer by smoking wild aster in a pipe, the smell of which was like the scent of a deer's hooves. Other tribes -- such as the Choctaws and Cherokees in the Southeast -- would carry skinned-out deer heads on their belts, which they could wear over their heads whenever they needed to make a stalk (this is no longer an advisable, or legal, technique). They used decoys and calls, and they knew that banging a pair of antlers together could summon a buck during the rut. In this book we have tried to compile some of the best information and most interesting pieces written about deer in Sports Afield since the magazine was founded in 1887. There were not as many deer to hunt back then, but over the last quarter century deer populations have boomed in nearly every state but Alaska and Hawaii, and so have the articles written about them. Many of these pieces originally appeared in the Sports Afield Almanac, which was introduced by Editor Ted Kesting in 1972; others appeared as departments or short features. All told, more than 250 deer hunters contributed, making this, we hope, a very unique look at what is now America's favorite game animal. Some of the contributors-like Dwight Schuh and Peter Fiduccia, Tom McIntyre and Ted Kerasote-are what we would call pros. They have hunted, studied and written about deer all their lives. Others are just guys who wanted to share a couple of their best deer-hunting secrets. Do not be surprised if you turn up some contradictory views. There's more than one way to shoot, skin, and cook a deer; but it may be that the best way of all is the one you have to figure out on your own." "This is the finest book on whitetail hunting that I have seen." -- Larry Myhre, Sioux City Journal