ORIGINAL: TJF
ORIGINAL: atlasman
ORIGINAL: Outdoor writer
People seem to be looking for that magic gadget or tactic that will fill there walls with big bucks.
Like books for example?
j/k
Actually I was really hoping you were going to go into some good details about identifying these bedding areas and how to attack them along the outskirts without spooking everything within.
That would have made a great chapter as I believe many (including myself) are less POSITIVE about their local bedding areas then they are willing to admit.
Atlas
The bedding areas won't be the same with all the different terrain thateveryone hunts.Bedding areasare more definedin some areas while not in others.While he sure could have gone into great detail of the bedding areashe hunts, it stillprobably wouldn't help you in your area. I know thatyour areaandhis area has nothing in common with mine. If you like I could go into great detail about my area but it wouldn't help you in the least.
You need to find a hunter orAuthor that huntsin your area or the same type ofterrain to really be of much use to you.If I wrote a book I would not go into detail of my area but stick togeneralized principals/methods of hunting.Hopefully the reader would be able to apply that with his hunting area to benefit from the book. Plus...I would be looking to attracted a biggeraudience for my book then justthe few who hunt ND.
You are asking a lot of himwhich might be the reason you didn't like his book and others did.
Tim
Tim is exactly right. I tried to lay out a plan or approach for each phase of the season and left it up to the reader to apply my "philosophies" to their area. For example I could use the term "feeding area" or I could have said "bean field". By saying "feeding area" a person anywhere can relate that to the point I am trying to make even if beans dont grow where they live.With the book I sorta just threw out the pieces of the puzzle as far as what has worked for me. The reader has to take those pieces and combine them with their knowledge of their own hunting area and decide which pieces to keep and use and which ones to kick to the side. About 20-25 years ago Gene Wensel wrote his first book and I devoured it. I was in my early 20s and eager to learn so I took what this veteran had to say and applied what I could to my personal situation even though he was hunting the river bottoms of Montana and I was hunting the woodlots of Illinois. Some things he said didnt make sense to me or didnt apply to my hunting but some of it could be used. More than anything certain things he said got my mind to working as I considered how to apply them to my own situation. I can't say that anything in his book directly made me a better hunter but a LOT of what he said got my mind to working and planted the seed for ideas that I took to the local woods. That made it a great book in my opinion.