How to Hunt Deer up Close

With Bows, Rifles, Muzzleloaders and Crossbows

By: John E. Phillips

Narrated by: John Davenport

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 hear 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.

©2013 John E. Phillips (P)2016 John E. Phillips

lots of good information, but...

This book contained a great deal of good information, but would benefit greatly from a more ruthless editor, and a more practiced narrator. The narration was clear, and in a pleasant voice, but filled with many Shatner-esque pauses. much of the material was simply spliced in from what appears to have been a television segment. I was ready to scream about the 47th time they introduced the same speaker.

Great content but painful listen

Seems like it’s the same reader for all John Phillips books. Some sentences will cut in and out like they were recorded at different times mid sentence. Other times there will be pauses in words when there shouldn’t be. Something like a “I climbed into my deer…stand and” could be the sound mixing as well but I get too distracted by it to really follow along.

it's hard to listen to John Davenport

the narrator, John Davenport, is hard to listen to at times. sometimes he sounds like a robot. other times he has very strange pronunciations, and the flow of is reading sometimes it's very odd

Choppy read, choppy content.

First, either each line of the pages was read as a complete sentence, or the editor had so few quality takes that the only option was to piece multiple fragments together regardless of fluidity. It was an annoying listen.
Second, this book seemed more of an advertisement for Dr. Bob Shepperd's "Whitetails" than an original work about hunting deer up close. At one point, an interviewer had Dr. Bob say the name of his book three times in quick succession much like in a late night infomercial.
Third, while it was an interesting story, the final chapter about taking an elephant with a bow was not useful to me and my whitetail bow hunting endeavors.

Skip this there are ads within the narration

There are a few books on bowhunting let alone dear hunting in audible this was a waste of credits. Little to no knowledge shared and in the middle of chapters switched to a podcast for other books as advertisements.
My first and only review on this app but it had to be said