PhD Gobblers John E Phillips 9781542745079 Books
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You’ll never encounter a more-maddening situation than hunting a turkey you can’t take. Turkeys that have earned their PhDs in the turkey-hunting wars pose problems to hunters because these birds know more about hunter-dodging than most hunters know about turkey hunting. These turkeys have built such a huge database on humans that they’ve earned their PhDs. These birds learn every day from each hunter they encounter how to survive until another season when they can breed another flock of hens. But the PhD turkeys’ need for sex, the sizes of their egos and their tendency to live a routine usually are their Achilles heels. You can learn how to take a tom like this by spending many days in the outdoors yourself--or, by learning from the experiences of turkey hunters who have been successful taking toms. Pro hunters are consummate students who never stop learning, aren’t afraid to try new tactics and treat every PhD gobbler they meet as an individual. These pros are seasoned veterans with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge to understand how to hunt turkeys and how to call turkeys. This book will show you the pros’ victories and defeats and explain the lessons they’ve learned from some of the PhD gobblers they’ve hunted, so you too can take these tough toms and qualify for your master’s degree in turkey hunting.
PhD Gobblers John E Phillips 9781542745079 Books
At less than five bucks for the Kindle version, I don't want to be too critical with my review - but I should preface with the note that if I had paid $30 for a hard cover, my review would have been much harsher. Let me start with the good things, though. The book is fairly short and extremely easy to read, so the time investment involved is fairly low. Considering the small investment of time, there are a few highlight items strewn throughout the book that probably make it a worthy investment of most hunters' time (and $5). I garnered a few good strategic & tactical reminders from the book, and I found it to be a good off-season read to help me start getting my mind in the mode for formulating strategies for the upcoming season.On the other hand, however, for me there were a few issues that detracted from the overall book. First & foremost is the title itself. From the title and description, one would be lead to believe that this book is dedicated to the "hook hanger", i.e. the 3,4, and 5 year old Toms, and the dominant gobblers. These are the hardest birds to hunt anywhere for a multitude of reasons. First, just like big bucks they got old for a reason, and that is likely because they are smarter and warier than the average bird in the first place. Not to mention, that from the prospective of the concept of the dominant bird, the fact that each flock will have only one dominant (versus multiple submissives) makes him statistically much harder to harvest in the first place. I don't want to say the title is misleading, as they try to format a theme of PhD Toms, but several of these stories were commonplace tactics that harvested an eager sophomore (2 yo) Tom. More on this in just a second...
My second criticism of the book, that really goes hand and hand with the first criticism, is the overall organization. Each chapter of this book is about a different hunter on the Hunter Specialties Pro Team Staff. Nothing wrong with that per se, if the book was titled something like "Turkey Hunting with the H.S. Pro Team", but for the purposes of a book supposedly about hunting PhD level Toms, it does not work. By jumping form hunter to hunter, the book literally has no strategic flow. The book would make much more sense organized by topic. For instance, organizing by subjects such as using terrain, slow playing tough birds, when to love and when to fight, time of day strategies, and using cover. Instead, by centering around each hunter, each chapter simply becomes a short collection of hunting stories. In that manner, one chapter does not add upon the previous or lead into the next. Instead there are times when there are flat out contradictions from chapter to chapter within the book. Again, if my expectations had been for a book of hunting stories from their Pro team that would be no problem.
Further, part of the organization of the book was to give most of the gobblers from each story a name, and endow the named bird with the PhD moniker (i.e Swampfoot, PhD; Pee-Pie Tom, PhD; or Cross Creek Gobbler, PhD). I would expect this sort of thing, as most of us know, those old tough to kill birds begin to get nicknames over the course of time (I have bestowed several names myself - "Tree-Hugger", "Black Spur", "Ridge Jumper", "Chuck Norris", "Tom Skywalker", and "Double Strut" just to name a few). My problem with the book, though, is that the simple act of evading some of these hunters for the matter of a couple of hours, or the hunter doing something wrong and missing/spooking the bird, somehow qualifies as a doctorate in hunter-dodging for the turkey. You don't get to name a bird that you have been trying to hunt for less than a day, unless it is one that has some distinctive quality and has been hunted unsuccessfully by others. Honestly, just by reading about the behavior of the bird, it is easy to tell that several titles should have been "Excited 2 Year Old, GED" or "Submissive Sophomore, JUCO Dropout" instead of bestowing an advanced degree just to get the bird in the book. While there are some real deal hook hanger stories, and discussions in here definitely relevant to the realities of harvesting hunter-savvy birds; giving PhD titles to average birds just because the hunter spooked the bird and still killed it later (or something along those lines) just makes the theme start to become a drag on the book. The inclusion of several of these hunts equates to throwing stories about killing 1.5 year old 6-points in a book about hunting Boone & Crockett Whitetails, or reeling off tales about stopping to catch some Triggerfish & Mingo in the middle of a Marlin fishing expedition.
In summary, the book is probably worth the read for less than five dollars. Just realize going in that it really isn't an exhaustive look at trophy turkey strategies, and that the organization itself makes the information scattered. Also, realize you are in for more than a smattering of plugs for H.S. products.
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PhD Gobblers John E Phillips 9781542745079 Books Reviews
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At less than five bucks for the version, I don't want to be too critical with my review - but I should preface with the note that if I had paid $30 for a hard cover, my review would have been much harsher. Let me start with the good things, though. The book is fairly short and extremely easy to read, so the time investment involved is fairly low. Considering the small investment of time, there are a few highlight items strewn throughout the book that probably make it a worthy investment of most hunters' time (and $5). I garnered a few good strategic & tactical reminders from the book, and I found it to be a good off-season read to help me start getting my mind in the mode for formulating strategies for the upcoming season.
On the other hand, however, for me there were a few issues that detracted from the overall book. First & foremost is the title itself. From the title and description, one would be lead to believe that this book is dedicated to the "hook hanger", i.e. the 3,4, and 5 year old Toms, and the dominant gobblers. These are the hardest birds to hunt anywhere for a multitude of reasons. First, just like big bucks they got old for a reason, and that is likely because they are smarter and warier than the average bird in the first place. Not to mention, that from the prospective of the concept of the dominant bird, the fact that each flock will have only one dominant (versus multiple submissives) makes him statistically much harder to harvest in the first place. I don't want to say the title is misleading, as they try to format a theme of PhD Toms, but several of these stories were commonplace tactics that harvested an eager sophomore (2 yo) Tom. More on this in just a second...
My second criticism of the book, that really goes hand and hand with the first criticism, is the overall organization. Each chapter of this book is about a different hunter on the Hunter Specialties Pro Team Staff. Nothing wrong with that per se, if the book was titled something like "Turkey Hunting with the H.S. Pro Team", but for the purposes of a book supposedly about hunting PhD level Toms, it does not work. By jumping form hunter to hunter, the book literally has no strategic flow. The book would make much more sense organized by topic. For instance, organizing by subjects such as using terrain, slow playing tough birds, when to love and when to fight, time of day strategies, and using cover. Instead, by centering around each hunter, each chapter simply becomes a short collection of hunting stories. In that manner, one chapter does not add upon the previous or lead into the next. Instead there are times when there are flat out contradictions from chapter to chapter within the book. Again, if my expectations had been for a book of hunting stories from their Pro team that would be no problem.
Further, part of the organization of the book was to give most of the gobblers from each story a name, and endow the named bird with the PhD moniker (i.e Swampfoot, PhD; Pee-Pie Tom, PhD; or Cross Creek Gobbler, PhD). I would expect this sort of thing, as most of us know, those old tough to kill birds begin to get nicknames over the course of time (I have bestowed several names myself - "Tree-Hugger", "Black Spur", "Ridge Jumper", "Chuck Norris", "Tom Skywalker", and "Double Strut" just to name a few). My problem with the book, though, is that the simple act of evading some of these hunters for the matter of a couple of hours, or the hunter doing something wrong and missing/spooking the bird, somehow qualifies as a doctorate in hunter-dodging for the turkey. You don't get to name a bird that you have been trying to hunt for less than a day, unless it is one that has some distinctive quality and has been hunted unsuccessfully by others. Honestly, just by reading about the behavior of the bird, it is easy to tell that several titles should have been "Excited 2 Year Old, GED" or "Submissive Sophomore, JUCO Dropout" instead of bestowing an advanced degree just to get the bird in the book. While there are some real deal hook hanger stories, and discussions in here definitely relevant to the realities of harvesting hunter-savvy birds; giving PhD titles to average birds just because the hunter spooked the bird and still killed it later (or something along those lines) just makes the theme start to become a drag on the book. The inclusion of several of these hunts equates to throwing stories about killing 1.5 year old 6-points in a book about hunting Boone & Crockett Whitetails, or reeling off tales about stopping to catch some Triggerfish & Mingo in the middle of a Marlin fishing expedition.
In summary, the book is probably worth the read for less than five dollars. Just realize going in that it really isn't an exhaustive look at trophy turkey strategies, and that the organization itself makes the information scattered. Also, realize you are in for more than a smattering of plugs for H.S. products.
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