If you’re looking for a book on hunting deer in the woods rather than on a ranch filled with food plots, Hunting Big Woods Bucks and Big Bucks The Benoit Way are two useful tools.
Both books are interesting reads to deer hunters and both are worth while. Beginners and experienced hunters will be able to gain tips from these two books. You can’t go wrong with either book, and serious deer hunters will enjoy reading both books.
Big Bucks The Benoit Way discusses only tracking as a hunting technique. This book devotes more pages to hard core tracking and does a slightly better job of describing some of the basic tracking techniques. Some of the pictures of different buck tracks help a hunter to learn how to distinguish a buck track from a doe track.
Hunting Big Woods Bucks devotes pages to other topics besides just tracking. The author (Hal Blood) discusses stand hunting, still hunting, as well as tracking techniques. Hal Blood adds creditability to his book by showing pictures of some of the smaller deer taken under his watch, not just the monster bucks (although there are plenty of those). I appreciated the fact that Mr. Blood understood that the definition of a “trophy” depended on the hunter, not some outside criteria.
Both books are interesting reads to deer hunters and both are worth while. Beginners and experienced hunters will be able to gain tips from these two books. You can’t go wrong with either book, and serious deer hunters will enjoy reading both books.
Big Bucks The Benoit Way discusses only tracking as a hunting technique. This book devotes more pages to hard core tracking and does a slightly better job of describing some of the basic tracking techniques. Some of the pictures of different buck tracks help a hunter to learn how to distinguish a buck track from a doe track.
Hunting Big Woods Bucks devotes pages to other topics besides just tracking. The author (Hal Blood) discusses stand hunting, still hunting, as well as tracking techniques. Hal Blood adds creditability to his book by showing pictures of some of the smaller deer taken under his watch, not just the monster bucks (although there are plenty of those). I appreciated the fact that Mr. Blood understood that the definition of a “trophy” depended on the hunter, not some outside criteria.
I learned from both books. I enjoyed both books. If I had to chose only one, I suppose I would go with Hunting Big Woods Bucks by Hal Blood because he discusses hunting techniques other than tracking. However, if I wanted just a book on tracking alone, I believe Big Bucks The Benoit Way by Bryce Towsley is slightly more comprehensive.
One Note: Neither the Benoits or Hal Blood use trail cams to scout their deer.
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