Boone and Crockett Club's Complete Guide to Hunting Whitetails: Deer Hunting Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Success in the Field

by Craig Boddington, Gordon Whittington, Larry Weishuhn

The best-known name in trophy big game hunting teams up with the world’s most knowledgeable deer experts to present the definitive resource for the whitetail hunter. Equally illuminating to both beginning and seasoned hunters, this engagingly written guide is packed with real-world strategies and exclusive data to help hunters beat the odds in today’s changing environment of dwindling public land access, evolving deer population dynamics and new hunting technologies. Learn how to pinpoint the ideal places, dates and times to find trophy whitetails—and then identify a record-book buck before pulling the trigger. The guide includes fully updated, illustrated instructions for scoring your own trophy. Contributors include biologist and TV personality Larry Weishuhn, noted outdoor writer Bill Winke and Gordon Whittington, editor of North American Whitetail. In addition, hunters Glen Salow, Rene Barrientos and Ken Hayworth explain the tactics that helped them each bag multiple record whitetails. The book also features proprietary trophy whitetail data collected and analyzed by the Boone and Crockett Club, America’s premier wildlife conservation organization.

331 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 7, 2014

About the author

Craig Boddington is an American hunter, multi-media outdoor journalist, author, outdoorsman, and retired Marine. He has been described as "one of the country's foremost authorities on African safari hunting" by ESPN and "one of the most experienced hunters of his generation" by Outdoor Channel.

Born in Kansas in 1952, Boddington's early big-game experience included pronghorn and mule deer in Wyoming, whitetail and mule deer in Kansas, and mule deer in Colorado. Considered to be one of the most prolific writers in the outdoor genre, Boddington has written over 5,000 magazine articles, including for the Boone & Crockett Club's magazine Fair Chase and for Safari and Petersen's Hunting. He has written 30 books on hunting and firearms. and has hosted six outdoor TV series, including Tracks Across Africa and The Boddington Experience.

Boddington has also been a featured speaker for numerous shows and organizations, including for the NRA's Great American Hunters Tour and Dallas Safari Club. His hunting expeditions have spanned all continents except Antarctica, and he holds numerous hunting achievements, including completing Africa's Big Five, hunting all nine principal spiral-horned antelopes, and holding the Capra Super 30, Ovis Super 20, two North American grand slams, and the North American Super Slam from Grand Slam/Ovis. Boddington stands out as one of two hunters reported to have taken all nine principal spiral-horned species twice. In 2017, he was named the recipient of the Weatherby Hunting and Conservation Award.