From scouting the terrain and sign analysis to behavior patterns and luring the deer, this resourse includes research on deciphering deer pellets, tracks, and beds; food preferences and baiting; hunting from portable tree stands; and more. 150 photos. 50 line drawings.

This book explores the world of the whitetail deer, its feeding, traveling, and mating habits, and shows how to use this knowledge to refine your hunting skills. • All about the whitetail's senses—and how to outwit them • What you can learn from a deer's body language • Understanding antler rubs, pellets, tracks, beds, and scrapes • Calling, rattling, and decoying whitetails • Stand hunting, stillhunting, and driving

A Deer Authority’s Best Tips from Decades in the Field As a seasoned hunter, host of a hunting television show, and acclaimed author and editor, Peter J. Fiduccia has amassed prodigious experience in pursuit of the whitetail. Now, he shares his tips, tactics, and techniques with readers, touching on every topic related to hunting whitetail deer. Some of his tips include: Core Areas: key strategies to take a buck in his core area Deer Calls: surefire advice to guarantee a buck will respond to grunt calls Using Scents: a radical scent tactic reveals how to attract bucks during the rut Shot Placement: how to regularly make dead-on one-shot kills Wounded Deer: methods that will drastically improve your tracking skills Scrape Hunting: fail-proof strategies to flush out a mature buck Weather: up your buck hunting success using barometric pressure and weather fronts Terrain: how to identify the places mature bucks regularly travel Fiduccia covers these and many more subjects in Shooter's Bible Guide to Deer Hunting. Hunters will find many ways to hone their skills and bag more deer with this handy guide.

Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks." Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Like countless American small towns, it is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the people in his old neighborhood do not have high school diplomas or health care. Alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape. He writes of: • His childhood friends who work at factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced • The mortgage and credit card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt • The ubiquitous gun culture—and why the left doesn’ t get it • Scots Irish culture and how it played out in the young life of Lynddie England

In winter, frozen lakes become a paradise for fishing enthusiasts. Discover how these hardy ice fishers bundle up, make a hole in the ice, and drop in a line.