The Hunter's Guide to Butchering, Smoking, and Curing Wild Game and Fish

If you're looking for a cleaner source of meat than the commercial meat industry provides, as well as preparing it in cleaner, more healthy ways, the recipes in this book may disappoint you. With ingredients like dextrose, soy protein concentrate, and sodium nitrate, you might as well buy and eat commercial hot dogs.Curing does not require nitrates, pink salt, or salt peter (potassium nitrate). People have cured meats for thousands of years without those ingredients. All you need is a good quality sea salt or natural rock salt. All thecuring experts in places like Italy know this to be true, and DO NOT use chemicals in their cures. Consider that the best prosciutto is always prepared with only salt and no nitrates or other junk.

My husband is a HUGE hunter! He goes every year and is always looking for tips/tricks. Not only does this book have alot of really delicious recipes but it also has a lot of other great information about butchering and smoking as well. I sometimes don't know what type of recipes to make and tend to use the same 5 over and over. Now thanks to this book I can make tons of yummy meals and not get bored! He really enjoys the extra information about not only wild game but fishing! This is an all around great book with alot of information for even advanced hunters. The cover is appealing and the book has pictures too which I like.

If there is a book on how to butcher any game you hunted for the day and the recommend cooking procedures this would be the book and I Am very happy that I got this instruction manual on how to prepare your wild game. Literality any animal you can think of that you can legally hunt to include turtles, snakes or bear. This manual is also very user friendly and give simple directions on how to enjoy your catch of the day. Yes I absolutely recommend this book!

My son-in-law hunts wild game such as elk and deer. He wanted to learn preferred methods for curing and smoking. He looked high and low in book stores, but could not find the book he wanted. I bought this hoping he might like it - he loved it and is delighted to have it in his library for use after this years hunting trip.

Great guide to butchering. Good photos and explanations. Also advice on meat care and recipes. Broken up into Big game, small game, birds and fish. Got nothing bad to say about it. Love the book.

I bought this book for my brother but took a long look at it before sending it on to him. There is EVERY kind of animal you can imagine hunting. It is very well diagramed and very detailed in its instructions.

As a person just getting into hunting I found this book to be very informative as how to cut, what to cut and all the tools you'll need vs what is a commodity to get the job done.Lots of big full colored quality pictures with clear anatomy of specific animals. Pretty clear directions and lots of handy tips like how to remove pelts intact or ways to cook and store. Really great guide.

This is a good book with lots of info and color photos that will help you get from field dressing, threw butchering and into the smoking and curing of your game animals. I love all forms of meat, especially smoked meat and this has a good deal of info on it, but I bought the book because it has more field care info on a wider variety of game critters than the one I already had. Worth the money.

I’m from the UK so hunting is very limited and the opportunities for hunting are small but the knowledge contained here has opened my mind and hopefully will come in handy when I travel to Canada in the future . A fantastic tomb of knowledge I’d like to put to use ❤️👍.

Has good info on pretty much everything about butchering game, and recipes for them as well. A very thorough book, including info on the various diseases and parasites that might be encountered and how to circumnavigate these, as well as anatomy drawings etc. This is an American book - I don't think I'll be using the recipe for stuffed opossum any time soon - but still very relevant and detailed with scientific info on oxidization of meat etc.

Anybody intrested in this sort of thing one book to have or for those weekend bushcraft people.

It's in the kitchen library with good tips

I'm not much of a hunter, actually not a hunter at all. I bought this book incase I'm ever in a situation where I need to use this book. Before this book I didn't know how to butcher, smoke or cure anything. Now I still don't, but at least I have a great reference with great pictures and a step by step guide. Very glad I purchased this.