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# The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game, Vol. 1

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The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game: Volume 1: Big Game [Rinella, Steven, Hafner, John] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game: Volume 1: Big Game

Review: Stop and buy this now - I can't put this book down. If you are interested at all in hunting and what that means, get this book. This is truly a comprehensive, "complete" guide to hunting. Rinella starts out with gear and works his way all the way to cooking and consumption. Very detailed. The first 100 pages alone covered dozens of things that I have attempted to research on my own through dozens of different sources. Now I have something I can reference in one place. This is a fantastic foundation and introduction to hunting. Nothing will beat real, hands on experience, but as Rinella himself says, you have to learn the rules before you can break them. This is one of those books that my kids will grow up reading. I would still consider myself new to hunting and this book is getting me very excited about hunting in general again and providing a deep longing to get outside. As far as quality goes, there are pictures and illustrations that explain nearly everything. If there's something that doesn't quite stick after reading it, you need only glance up to the corresponding image and vice versa. Rinella and team have done a great job making this information very accessible. The writing is simple, but not in an uninformative way; it's easy to pick and up read and I find myself getting lost in the pages as if it were fiction. I cannot recommend this book enough. If you are interested at all about hunting and how to get started in it, do not look any farther. This should be required reading.
Review: Thanks Steven - Thanks for sharing all your insights and knowledge. Ive been hunting for years, and I still learned a bunch! Very entertaining read as well. The book finished with recipes, which makes me want to get busy hunting again even more so!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #17,506 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2 in Game Cooking #3 in Camping & RV Cooking #11 in Hunting |
| Book 1 of 2  | The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game |
| Customer Reviews | 4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars (6,164) |
| Dimensions  | 8 x 0.91 x 10.01 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 081299406X |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0812994063 |
| Item Weight  | 2.88 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 416 pages |
| Publication date  | August 18, 2015 |
| Publisher  | Random House |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stop and buy this now
*by C***H on September 28, 2015*

I can't put this book down. If you are interested at all in hunting and what that means, get this book. This is truly a comprehensive, "complete" guide to hunting. Rinella starts out with gear and works his way all the way to cooking and consumption. Very detailed. The first 100 pages alone covered dozens of things that I have attempted to research on my own through dozens of different sources. Now I have something I can reference in one place. This is a fantastic foundation and introduction to hunting. Nothing will beat real, hands on experience, but as Rinella himself says, you have to learn the rules before you can break them. This is one of those books that my kids will grow up reading. I would still consider myself new to hunting and this book is getting me very excited about hunting in general again and providing a deep longing to get outside. As far as quality goes, there are pictures and illustrations that explain nearly everything. If there's something that doesn't quite stick after reading it, you need only glance up to the corresponding image and vice versa. Rinella and team have done a great job making this information very accessible. The writing is simple, but not in an uninformative way; it's easy to pick and up read and I find myself getting lost in the pages as if it were fiction. I cannot recommend this book enough. If you are interested at all about hunting and how to get started in it, do not look any farther. This should be required reading.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thanks Steven
*by W***N on November 3, 2025*

Thanks for sharing all your insights and knowledge. Ive been hunting for years, and I still learned a bunch! Very entertaining read as well. The book finished with recipes, which makes me want to get busy hunting again even more so!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very good tool for new or medium-experienced hunters, good for preppers, too.
*by �***T on October 23, 2016*

I bought and watched a video from another person that was a great beginner's tool. Having that base helped me understand some things better when I went thru this book. A LOT of great info in here, and I found it well-organized and presented, too. From gear to prep info, on to various animal species (and I felt the amount of species included was quite large), then butchering and cooking. There was a lot of actual hunting info, like stands and blinds and various weapon types, and traits of the various animals covered. It also covers things like licenses and legal differences between state laws, etc. The butchering is where I got more than from that video I watched, because this book takes it further from just field dressing or boning. That's the subject I wanted more info on, too, so I found it quite handy. The recipes are a nice bonus. And all throughout there are some excellent photos. I'm mostly interested in this from a prepper's perspective. It does go into differences in skinning if you're going to tan the hide, but of course does not go into much about tanning itself. It's rather large and heavy to carry, so is best studied prior to need, but is, I feel, a very good instruction tool for preppers or new or medium-experienced hunters.

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