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

Steven Rinella

A comprehensive big-game hunting guide, perfect for hunters ranging from first-time novices to seasoned experts, with more than 400 photographs, including work by renowned outdoor photographer John Hafner

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The MeatEater Podcast

The hosts repeatedly highlighted the book as a best‑selling, 700‑page comprehensive guide that covered everything from hunting techniques and land access to butchering and cooking wild game, noting its usefulness for both beginners and seasoned hunters. Steven Rinella and guest experts such as Kevin Murphy and Brad Brooks praised its depth, expert contributions, and practical advice, even offering a signed copy as a prize. The consensus was that it was an affordable, highly valuable resource and a great gift for anyone interested in the outdoors.

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Episode: Ep. 406: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XLIII

It was mentioned as a best-selling title and a cookbook that a new cookbook was created as a follow-up to this one. The new cookbook is called the Daniel Pruitt Wild and Whole Cookbook.

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It's the Meteor Cookbook. The follow-up to the Meteor Cookbook.

Which is still selling like hot cakes. That's our best-selling title ever.

Episode: Ep. 378: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXX

A signed copy of this book was offered as a prize to the winner of the listener question of the week segment.

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If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, send your question to trivia at themeateater.com. Now, name two of the top five states with the most mountain lions.

Episode: Ep. 064: Bozeman. Steven Rinella talks with Kevin...

The podcast hosts discussed their favorite aspects of this 700-page guidebook, highlighting its comprehensive information on hunting techniques, meat processing, cooking methods, and landscape reading. They praised its accessibility to both novice and experienced hunters.

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lifetimes worth of information 700 pages of hunting how to ranging from ranging from navigating permit draws private land versus public land management systems and permission systems. How to chop stuff up how to cook it how to think how to read a landscape.

If you're looking at a holistic like holistically like that is that we did have so many experts weigh in, you know, so many people that just even use the word weigh in.

There's just a plethora of information there, small game, big game, whatever. If he wants to be a hunter it is in that book.

It's a guide that the hunter with little or no skill at all can take that and start his adventures in the outdoor and have a head start over a competition.

It is very cheap, very reasonable for a gift to someone to give coffee table book, whatever. If you've got someone out there that's a hunter, wants to be a hunter, whatever. You can buy one of those things and it's not going to make the break.

Episode: Ep. 062: Seattle. Steven Rinella talks with Brad B...

This 700-page guidebook (split into two volumes: big game and small game) was described as having information on hunting, butchering, and cooking wild game. It was mentioned that experts from across the country contributed to the book, and that it took years to complete.

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There's a lot of people that don't realize that we have a 700-page volume one, volume two complete guide to hunting, butchering, and cooking wild game.

New to hunting, veteran hunter, somewhere in between, guaranteed you'll find something interesting to read in both volumes.

Volume one is big game. Volume two is small game. Everything from squirrels on up to cranes.

And it's got a bunch of cooking stuff, sausage making. I mean, big book.

It's a dance book, but it was good. Beautifully illustrated.

Episode: Ep. 030

It was mentioned as a resource containing information on finding public hunting lands and hidden spots, implying the book offered practical hunting advice.

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we have a ton of information on this very thing and the complete guide to hunting butchering cooking wild game like how to find public land that people don't realize is public

The Daily Stoic

This book, actually two books (one about big game and one about smaller game), was described as fantastic and highly recommended; the recipes from these books have been used over the years.

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And then his two cookbooks, the complete guide to hunting, butchering and cooking wild game. William One is about big game and the other one's about smaller game. Also a fantastic book very highly rec...

— Episode: Steven Rinella on Hunting, Self-Discipli...

Episode: Steven Rinella on Hunting, Self-Discipline, and Fi...

This book, actually two books (one about big game and one about smaller game), was described as fantastic and highly recommended; the recipes from these books have been used over the years.

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And then his two cookbooks, the complete guide to hunting, butchering and cooking wild game. William One is about big game and the other one's about smaller game. Also a fantastic book very highly recommend it. We've used a bunch of the recipes over the years.

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