Big Bucks the Benoit Way: Secrets from America's First Family of Whitetail Hunting [Hardcover]

Bryce M. Towsley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1998

This book presents the tried-and-true hunting strategies of the legendary Benoit family. Based on Larry Benoit's seven decades of hunting whitetails, readers learn the secrets and strategies for bagging the biggest bucks of their lives.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 207 pages
• Publisher: Krause Pubns Inc (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873416554
• ISBN-13: 978-0873416559
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #485,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for serious big buck hunters, February 21, 2000

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This review is from: Big Bucks the Benoit Way: Secrets from America's First Family of Whitetail Hunting (Hardcover)

It is one thing to shoot a trophy buck. It's even more amazing to shoot them year after year. This is just what the Benoits do and keep in mind it is being done in Maine. This makes it an even bigger accomplishment. If you have hunted Maine like myself, you know what I'm talking about. The big bucks up there are far and few, yet the Benoits are able to "read" the area and thus find moss backs every year. Even if you are an experienced hunter, you can be humbled quite quickly when hunting in Maine. This book details hunts in which bucks were tracked for many miles, offers many tips on how to read tracks, and when and where the bucks are going. If you want to learn more about big woods bucks, this book is for you.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for northwoods hunters, September 18, 1999

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This review is from: Big Bucks the Benoit Way: Secrets from America's First Family of Whitetail Hunting (Hardcover)

This book is one of the best true hunting books I ever read! The Benoits are the True first family in deer hunting and as a north woods hunter myself I have learned lots from reading this book. This book is not about sitting in a tree stand all day or electronic trail timers or other high tech deer hunting ambush aids its about true hunting...tracking the most wise buck in the world..the northwoods buck !

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tracking Big Bucks on Snowy Days, January 27, 2003

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Bruce L. Nelson "'Alone Across Alaska' and '7... (Fairbanks, Alaska USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Big Bucks the Benoit Way: Secrets from America's First Family of Whitetail Hunting (Hardcover)

This is one of the best and most unique whitetail hunting books I've read. The classic and now out-of-print "How to Bag the Biggest Buck of Your Life," did a great job of describing the Benoit tracking method. This newest book is even better.

"Big Bucks the Benoit Way" is an excellent presentation of how the Benoits hunt. The Benoits are almost exclusively trackers, and they base their techniques on what their vast experience has proven to work best: not on the theories of others. This independent thinking makes this a very refreshing book, and their dozens of 200-pound plus bucks prove that they know what they are doing.

This book is loaded with great photos of big bucks and the Benoits in their trademark green and black wool jackets. There's plenty of shots of sagging meat poles, the deep woods on snowy days, and the tracks and rubs of big bucks.

Most valuable though, is the great information on how the Benoits find, identify, and then follow the track of a heavy buck until they successfully bag him. While few of us will ever be so spectacularly successful using these methods, all of us can learn from this book. I've successfully used these same Benoit methods to track down and bag trophy bucks from Montana to Wisconsin.

Hunters who enjoy this book share a kinship in understanding the magic of the deep woods and a fresh tracking snow and the smoking hot track of a big buck. If you are that type of hunter, you will like this book.

Bruce L. Nelson, author of "Hunting Big Whitetails."