Wingshooter's Guide to Idaho: Upland Birds and Waterfowl (Wingshooter's Guides) [Paperback]

Rocky Barker (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wilderness Adventures Pr (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885106270
• ISBN-13: 978-1885106278
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,582,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #34 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Idaho

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money., May 15, 2001

By 

Roger Long (Pocatello, Idaho USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wingshooter's Guide to Idaho: Upland Birds and Waterfowl (Wingshooter's Guides) (Paperback)

I bought this book sight unseen and I was bitterly disappointed. There is nothing in this book that you can't find out by reading the Idaho Fish and Game Upland Game pamphlet, except some listings of local resources such as sporting goods stores. It made me wonder if Retallic and Barker ever actually hunted birds in Idaho. The maps are especially disappointing, and they are typical of this entire series. They show absolutely no roads, rivers or streams by which you could pinpoint possible hunting locations. In this era of readily available digitized maps, these maps are inexcusable.

In short, any literate person could sit down with the Upland Game pamphlet and the yellow pages for Idaho and find all the information contained in this book. Don't waste your money.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Bother with this incomplete book., October 6, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Wingshooter's Guide to Idaho: Upland Birds and Waterfowl (Wingshooter's Guides) (Paperback)

The distribution maps and other data in this book are almost identical to what is given for free by IDFG. Ambiguity and vagueness seem to be the key theme in this book. As a nonresident of Idaho, this book does little more than frustrate me when it is used for planning an upland bird hunt to Idaho. Forget the information that they mention on valley quail hunting. From my experience, it is extremely difficult to find valley quail on public land in Idaho. I am disappointed in this incomplete book.
By the way, I don't expect the authors to give up their personal hot spots (if they have any), but some reasonable maps detailing public access areas would be great.

5.0 out of 5 stars Good for beginning hunters, September 23, 2011

By 

Matilda Miller - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wingshooter's Guide to Idaho: Upland Birds and Waterfowl (Wingshooter's Guides) (Paperback)

Yeah, it's a little thin on detailed maps (as others point out). But if you want to teach somebody the basics of bird hunting in Idaho, this book is a really good start.