Books by John Phillips

Bowhunting Deer: Mossy Oak Pros Know Bucks and Bows

Many deer hunters have told me: "I want to read a deer-hunting book with..."regular hunters who are just like me" and"the best advice from the best professional deer hunters in the nation."Years ago I learned that serving these two audiences in one book could be very difficult. However, in this book, I've tried to do just that. Mossy Oak's Pro Staff is made up of some of the nation's best deer hunters, professional deer hunters and TV hosts whose names and advice often are heard in deer camps all over the nation. But many of the more than 1,000 Mossy Oak Pro Staff hunters are every day, weekend and vacation deer hunters just like you. They're dedicated to taking older-age-class bucks and keeping their deer herds in balance by harvesting does. They're passionate about bowhunting, learning more about the deer they hunt, providing food and top-quality land when possible to their deer herds, following the best game land formulas and harvesting the correct number of those animals. Whether you hunt private or public lands, you'll find tips and tactics in this book from the Mossy Oak Pro Staff that will increase your odds for locating and taking the bucks of your dreams.If you're serious about learning to hunt and take deer with a bow, if you're looking for a different strategy that will help you identify and harvest big bucks, if you want to learn from your misses as well as from the shots that connect, and if you enjoy being in the great outdoors that the Good Lord has blessed us with, then this book is for you.

Bowhunting Deer: the Secrets of the PSE Pros

The fastest way to learn how to bowhunt is to study the tactics and the equipment of the men who take trophy deer with their bows every deer season, like Mark Drury, Terry Drury, Hank Parker Sr., Ronnie "Cuz" Strickland, Rocky Drake, Spook Spann, Glenn Eilers, Michael Ahlfeldt, Michael Braden and world-class target archer Christopher Perkins. In "Bowhunting Deer: The Secrets of the PSE Pros," these men will tell you which strategies they use to find trophy deer, how they set-up to take them and how they choose a hunting bow and other hunting gear they feel will give them the best opportunities to take those bucks of their lifetimes. You'll also see how a serious deer hunter prepares to take a deer and the different strategies he utilizes to look for a big whitetail and grow a bigger whitetail on the property he hunts. PSE archery not only has highly-technical, extremely-dependable and year-after-year consistent bows, the hunters in this book also regularly take big mature whitetails. To learn how to bowhunt like a pro, how to shoot like a pro and how to take deer like a pro, this book and these hunting tips are what you need.

Deer and Fixings

Deer and Fixings: How to Cook Delicious Venison

This venison cookbook is the combined cooking knowledge and experience of more than 90 years of testing and preparing delicious venison dishes that are heart-healthy, low in fat and calories and high in protein. Learn how to field-dress a deer, how to prepare and cook deer meat and what side dishes to serve with your wild game. This guide contains more than 100 venison recipes prepared with ground venison, venison loins, venison roasts, venison steaks and venison stew meat, along with over-150 delicious vegetable, soup, appetizer, salad, bread and dessert recipes.These recipes are made with easy-to-find ingredients and are great ways to use your freshly-taken venison, or to clear-out the leftover venison you have in your freezer. Most recipes are on one-page each, so you can lay your book on the kitchen table and follow the directions for the recipe. Many of these recipes can be prepared at home and taken to the deer camp or the fishing camp to be enjoyed at a later date.

How to Hunt and Take Big Buck Deer on Small Properties

As I've been interviewing hunters from across the nation, I continue to hear the same story. "You won't believe how small the property is where I'm taking trophy bucks." With the price of deer leasing continuing to escalate and fewer large tracts of land available, hunters are leasing small tracts of land or gaining permission to hunt these small properties.In this book, you'll read about 14-different hunters who either have gained permission or leased properties as small as 6 acres to as much as 250 acres, and they consistently taken older-age-class bucks off these little lands.When John and Jim Scott got pictures of a monstrous 10-point buck made from a surveillance camera at a suburban apartment complex, they immediately secured permission to hunt those 60 acres. John took a buck that scored in the 170s, and his twin brother, Jim, took a buck that scored over 160. Today they consistently take older-age-class bucks every year off this property and other small lands they hunt all over the nation. "When we learned that big bucks live on small properties, Jim and I both changed the way we hunt," John Scott explains. "Now, we focus all our time and energy hunting on and finding small properties.This book will teach you:* how to find and identify a small property that may hold trophy bucks;* how to get the landowner's name of the small property;* how to use the boundary lines of adjacent properties to learn where big bucks are;* what to look for on small properties that cause that land to produce older-age-class bucks every year; and* how to find and take trophy bucks on small woodlots.Thanks to some new types of maps available, often you can find the properties you want to hunt and then lease or obtain permission to hunt them without leaving home. If you're tired of paying high prices to join leases where you see few if any older-age-class bucks, if you want to have small family hunting spots for you and your family members, and if you want to become a trophy deer hunter who consistently bags big bucks every season, "How to Hunt and Take Big Buck Deer on Small Properties" is a must read.

How to Hunt and Take Big Buck Deer on Small Properties

As I've been interviewing hunters from across the nation, I continue to hear the same story. "You won't believe how small the property is where I'm taking trophy bucks." With the price of deer leasing continuing to escalate and fewer large tracts of land available, hunters are leasing small tracts of land or gaining permission to hunt these small properties. In this book, you'll read about 14-different hunters who either have gained permission or leased properties as small as 6 acres to as much as 250 acres, and they consistently taken older-age-class bucks off these little lands. When John and Jim Scott got pictures of a monstrous 10-point buck made from a surveillance camera at a suburban apartment complex, they immediately secured permission to hunt those 60 acres. John took a buck that scored in the 170s, and his twin brother, Jim, took a buck that scored over 160. Today they consistently take older-age-class bucks every year off this property and other small lands they hunt all over the nation. "When we learned that big bucks live on small properties, Jim and I both changed the way we hunt," John Scott explains. "Now, we focus all our time and energy hunting on and finding small properties. Small tracts of land:* are easy to set-up trail cameras on, identify the bucks on these properties and make a hit list of bucks you want to take; * have little or no hunting pressure, and many hunters drive past them; * may home small patches of woods that are sanctuaries where big bucks concentrate during daylight hours;* may have the property around them intensively hunted, pushing big deer onto the small property; and* may be present but not visible on maps of public-hunting lands. This book will teach you:* how to find and identify a small property that may hold trophy bucks;* how to get the landowner's name of the small property; * how to use the boundary lines of adjacent properties to learn where big bucks are;* what to look for on small properties that cause that land to produce older-age-class bucks every year; and* how to find and take trophy bucks on small woodlots. Thanks to some new types of maps available, often you can find the properties you want to hunt and then lease or obtain permission to hunt them without leaving home. If you're tired of paying high prices to join leases where you see few if any older-age-class bucks, if you want to have small family hunting spots for you and your family members, and if you want to become a trophy deer hunter who consistently bags big bucks every season, "How to Hunt and Take Big Buck Deer on Small Properties" is a must read.

How to Hunt Deer Like a Pro

How do you know if the land you hunt has a trophy deer on it? Wildlife manager Bob Zaiglin, of Uvalde, Texas and Jim Crumley, the father of modern-day hunting camouflage, tell you how to find out. GPS can make finding and taking that trophy buck easier. This hunting guide will teach you how to hunt big bucks where no one else can find them, how to call deer, and how to become versatile as a deer hunter, so that if one deer tactic doesn't work, another one will.Dr. Keith Causey, retired professor of Wildlife Science at Auburn University, says, "Deer of both sexes and all ages leave a wide variety and a large amount of information for other deer in their geological locations at scrapes. Although most people believe that dominant bucks in an area utilize these signposting regions, other deer use these signposts too for information." In the chapter, "How to find Bucks at Scrape," Causey describes the best way to hunt a scrape. Brad Harrison of Neosho, Missouri, is a nationally-known videographer, professional deer hunter and master at calling deer. Another master is Will Primos of Primos Game Calls. These two experts will tell the best deer calls and when to use them in this book.One question that's mystified deer hunters for many years, is how to know when bucks move. And for over 20 years, Bo Pitman, lodge manager of White Oak Plantation, has been studying deer movement patterns. He explains what types of conditions are best for predicting deer movement. How do you hunt deer in the snow? Norm LeBrun, of Quebec, Canada, a guide at Anticosti Island, hunts deer in the snow almost all year long and provides timely insights on how and where to take big bucks under these conditions. Eddie Salter lives in Alabama and Mark Drury in Missouri, and these two master deer hunters give you hunting tips for when the weather is hot and for hunting in swamps. Dr. Robert Sheppard tells you about some tricks that bucks play on whitetail deer hunters. There are also two chapters on how to hunt bucks at the end of deer season and a chapter on how to train bucks to come to you, so you don't have to go find them.For 50 years, I've been studying and hunting with some of the best whitetail hunters from around the country and in Canada, and this book is the combined knowledge of these time-tested, deer-hunting professionals. If you want to learn how to be a hunter, you need to have this book.

How to Hunt Deer Up Close With Bows, Riflles, Muzzleloaders and Crossbows

To be more successful as a deer hunter, learn all you can about the animal, the wind, the temperature and the techniques required to get in close. In this book, you'll read about some of the best hunters in the nation who know how to hunt deer close, including one of the greatest archers who ever lived, Howard Hill. John E. Phillips shares his own deer stories and hunting tips from 50 years of experience, and you'll have the opportunity to watch 25 videos explaining the latest research on deer movement. Now contains a bonus chapter with recipes for two full meals using venison!"We've known John for over 30 years and he's absolutely right about hunting close. Terry and I can both shoot well out past 50 yards. But, to make a good video and to take an ethical shot, we like to get deer within 30 yards or less. In order to get deer that close, we scout intensively, we use trail cameras to pattern the deer, we have multiple stand sites to hunt under different weather conditions and we practice many of the same techniques that John recommends in this book. If you want to take more big deer, this book is a must." --Mark and Terry Drury

Jim Crumley's Secrets of Bowhunting Deer

Using a black magic marker and a gray work jumpsuit, Jim Crumley of Buchanan, Virginia, drastically changed the nature and purpose of hunting camouflage when he created the first sportsman's camouflage - Trebark. Crumley's idea that vertical camouflage patterns best represented objects in the forest and created an illusion of a tree stump or the trunk of a tree brought into being a new term, "sportsman's camouflage." Prior to Crumley's forward thinking, most of the camouflage used for hunting was military camouflage. But Crumley's love of bowhunting and his desire to be more invisible changed hunting clothing forever. Throughout his life, Crumley has been a constant student of how to bowhunt better, and his desire to learn new and better techniques for bowhunting was one of the reasons he created Trebark camouflage. In this hunting guide he shares the wisdom that he's learned throughout his lifetime about how to be a hunter, how to find a deer lease, how to scout for deer and more. I'm sure his deer hunting tips will help you take more bucks with your bow this deer season.SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE HOW TO:*Have a Magic 60 Acres to Hunt*Decide the Best Equipment to Use*Find Deer Year-Round*Locate Land to Hunt*Know the Best Place to Put Your Tree Stand*Get Bucks Within Bow Range

Whitetail Deer and the Hunters Who Take Big Bucks

I've enjoyed writing this book as much, if not more, than any book I've ever written on deer and deer hunting. I've learned so much on how hunters find trophy bucks, what they do to put themselves into positions to take those trophy bucks, and which hunters have the best chances of taking older, mature bucks. This book is a celebration of the men and women who've taken their bucks of a lifetime.