Quality Whitetails

Top deer biologists and deer hunting authors discuss how and when hunters should harvest bucks and antlerless deer, and how to ensure a better chance of getting that trophy buck.

"If your dream is to have better deer hunting on your property, then QDM is the answer." &break;&break;Quality deer management began in the Texas brush country, but it has quickly spread across the nation to become one of the hottest topics in the whitetail world. &break;&break;Outdoor writer and photographer Charles Alsheimer embraced the QDM concept in the 1980ss. Since then, he's experimented with his property and made it a whitetail paradise. Join Alsheimer for a class in QDM basics. You'll learn about foot plots, hunting strategies, buck age structure, nutritional requirements and proper adult-doe-to-antlered-buck ratios. &break;&break;More than 150 of Alsheimer's photographs illustrate his QDM experience. Look at the impressive deer Alsheimer killed on his farm, travel with him to commercial QDM outfitters, and learn more about the behavior of white-tailed deer through the seasons. &break;&break;Alsheimer is the first to admit there are no quick fixes for implementing a long-term QDM program. In other words, it's more than dropping a handful of clover seeds in a food plot. But if you're ready for the challenge, or just want to learn more about this popular management program, this book is for you.

Informative essays by professional deer biologists. Comprehensive descriptions of viable management programs. Precise methods of evaluating the effectiveness of quality deer management.

Jay Langston takes a look at the extraordinary half century long project that restored the white-tailed deer population of Tennessee. By the 1930s probably fewer than 500 whitetails remained in the state, but within 50 years, thanks to the hard work of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, the whitetail population had risen to perhaps 800,000 and now numbers more than a million. Tennessee Whitetails records the record-book bucks taken by Volunteer State hunters and provides a life history of America's most popular big game animal. Tennessee Whitetails also gives insights into quality deer management in Tennessee and tips on where to find trophy bucks.

Records of North American Whitetail Deer is the definitive history book of trophy whitetail deer in North America. This greatly expanded fourth edition features: Over 7,500 listings of whitetail deer from the Boone and Crockett Club's Records Program dating back to the late 1800s up through December 31, 2002; that's nearly double the entries from the previous edition published just seven years ago. Over 35 new state and provincial records; geographic analysis of each state in the U.S., highlighting the top trophy-producing counties; individual state and provincial lists of typical and non-typical whitetail and Coues' deer; photos of all the state, provincial, and Mexican typical and non-typical whitetail deer records; numerous field photos of trophy quality whitetail deer; reproductions of typical and non-typical whitetail deer score charts with basic scoring instructions.