The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game: Volume 1: Big Game

Softcover, 416 pages. A comprehensive big-game hunting guide, perfect for hunters ranging from first-time novices to seasoned experts, with more than 400 full-color photographs, including work by renowned outdoor photographer John Hafner.Steven Rinella was raised in a hunting family and has been pursuing wild game his entire life. In this first-ever complete guide to hunting—from hunting an animal to butchering and cooking it—the host of the popular hunting show MeatEater shares his own expertise with us, and imparts strategies and tactics from many of the most experienced hunters in the United States as well. This invaluable book includes• recommendations on what equipment you will need—and what you can do without—from clothing to cutlery to camping gear to weapons• basic and advanced hunting strategies, including spot-and-stalk hunting, ambush hunting, still hunting, drive hunting, and backpack hunting• how to effectively use decoys and calling for big game• how to find hunting locat