Category: Game Processing and Recipes

The Meat Sweats: How to Roast A Whole Deer

How To Roast A Whole Deer Perhaps the most satisfying aspects of being a hunter is sharing the bounty of your time in the field with others – divvying up the meat from the harvest with friends and family and sharing in your good fortune by handing out small freezer wrapped packages to the ones

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It’s easier than you think to tan your own deer hide

It's easier than you think to tan your own deer hide

We scrape every last scrap of meat from the carcass. We make knife handles out of deer bones and jewelry from deer teeth. We use deer sinew for sewing and deer tails for making flies for fishing. Some of us even use the hooves to make racks to hold up our deer rifles. We do

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The pack-out: The last, vital step to a backcountry hunt

The pack-out: The last, vital step to a backcountry hunt

Hunting in the backcountry is among the greatest challenges of the hunting world. Those who head into the untamed wilderness in search of their trophy must put in months of research and training. They have to spend hours going over game reports and maps, planning their travel routes and campsites. Once a plan is made,

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Eat it where it lies: How to prepare wild game in the field

Eat it where it lies: How to prepare wild game in the field

Before the invention of electricity, aluminum siding, penicillin, taxes, or Twitter, the greatest discovery known to man, one that would propel him toward his glorious future, was fire. Fire provided light, warmth, protection, and perhaps most importantly, it cooked his food. Cooking not only made food safer to eat but changed it from simple sustenance

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Are you wasting perfectly good game meat?

Are you wasting perfectly good game meat?

We hunt for a number of reasons. Some of us hunt for the challenge, the enjoyment of pitting ourselves against nature. Others hunt as a way to remember their past, to feel that ancient connection we once had with all the wild things of this world. Hunters hunt for trophies and for sport. There’s bowhunters,

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Backstrap Wellington, a comforting winter favorite with a wild game twist

Backstrap Wellington, a comforting winter favorite with a wild game twist

Some people find wild game off-putting. I’ve never understood that. Being the savage caveman I am, I’m perfectly content cutting a chunk of meat off an animal in the field and roasting it over an open fire, but not everyone is like me. So I’ve played around with numerous ways to help those who are

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