Best Hunting & Meat Preservation Books You Should Read
Dec 31st 1969
Introduction
At-home butchering and preserving your game meat will still be essential skills this year's hunting season. In many areas, butchers are booked up for another year or more in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Book suggestions for Hunting Season Preservation
The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game: Volume 1: Big Game by Steven Rinella
Featuring over 400 photos by renowned outdoor photographer John Hafner, this is the comprehensive big-game hunting guide. Whether you’re a first-time novice or a seasoned expert, this book belongs in your collection.
The Complete Guide to Preserving Meat, Fish, and Game Step-by-Step Instructions to Freezing, Canning, Curing, and Smoking (Back to Basics Cooking) by Ken Oster
This book will take you through how to go about the process of storing meat for long-term use in a variety of methods while constantly keeping an eye on the possibility of food-borne illness and the loss of freshness. You will learn everything you need to know to start the process of setting aside and preserving your meat, fish, and game.
Buck, Buck, Moose: Recipes and Techniques for Cooking Deer, Elk, Moose, Antelope, and Other Antlered Things by Hank Shaw
Featuring more than 100 recipes ranging from traditional dishes from six continents to original recipes never before seen, this book also includes a lengthy section on curing venison and sausage-making. You'll also get thorough instructions on how to butcher, age, and store your venison, as well as how to use virtually every part of the animal.
More Book Suggestions for your Lever-Action Library
McPherson On Leverguns: Customizing, Handloading, and Using The Lever-Action Rifle by M.L. (Mic) McPherson
McPherson covers every aspect of getting the most out of traditional lever-action guns through modification, improvement, handloading, and shooting techniques. He chronicles his custom modifications of Marlin 1894 and 336-based guns in this edition.
Benoit Bucks: Whitetail Tactics for a New Generation by Bryce M. Towsley
The Benoits combine their extraordinary whitetail knowledge with details and techniques to continue their successful track record of taking trophy whitetails. You will learn all the secrets behind how the Benoits have adapted to hunting challenges to become unbelievably successful, multi-dimensional hunters.