​OBSERVING & EVALUATING WHITETAILS: New updated edition

I’m excited to announce the NEW UPDATED EDITION of Observing & Evaluating Whitetails by Dave Richards & Al Brothers is now AVAILABLE!  
  
Observing & Evaluating Whitetails is used by wildlife biologists, wildlife educators, hunter ed instructors, guide schools, wildlife managers, and hunters throughout the country.  Contained among the book’s 475+ stunning color photographs are sequences of numerous impressive bucks over multiple years showing their body and antler changes, providing a comprehensive overview of how to age and score white-tailed deer on the hoof through physical characteristics and behavior. 
Dave also teamed up with noted whitetail authorities Dr. R. Larry Marchinton and Brian Murphy to provide cutting Edge information on whitetail communication, sensory capabilities, aging after harvest, diseases and more. Without question, the New Updated Edition of Observing & Evaluating Whitetails is a must have resource for anyone interested in learning more about North America’s most popular big game animal! 

  • The New edition has 470 + color photographs
  • Several NEW bucks added to the live buck aging & judging chapters
  • 21 buck aging sequences showing their body and antler changes over their life
  • 35 buck judging examples of live bucks with known Boone & Crockett scores
  • Why we don’t use antler size as an aging criterion
  • A Guide to Identifying Different Age Bucks
  • Aging Whitetails by Behavior
  • Aging Whitetails after harvest
  • Estimating Boone & Crockett score on the hoof
  • Whitetail Communication and Sensory Capabilities
  • Whitetail Antler Development
  • Whitetail Antler Anomalies
  • Whitetail Parasites, Diseases, and Anomalies and more…
Observing & Evaluating Whitetails is offered in soft cover version for $29.99 and a leather bound signed limited edition is available for $199.99.   Aging Whitetail Bucks on the Hoof pocket guide  is an excerpt from Observing & Evaluating Whitetails and is available for $4.99.   Click links on the left to order books.
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