The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game (Volume 2: Small Game and Fowl)

A comprehensive small-game hunting guide, perfect for hunters ranging from first-time novices to seasoned experts, and features more than 400 full-color photographs. The author Steven Rinella is the host of the popular hunting show "MeatEater", and shares his own expertise with us, and imparts strategies and tactics from many of the most experienced hunters in the United States as well. 

If you're interested in larger game, be sure to check out Volume 1 which covers the same topics related to Deer, Elk, Moose, etc.
 
Some of the topics covered:

• Recommendations on what equipment you will need—and what you can do without—from footwear to cutlery to camping gear to weapons.
  
• Basic and advanced hunting strategies for all North American small game, including drive techniques, solo and group hunting, ambush hunting, the use of hunting dogs, and techniques for decoying and calling.
  
• How to find hunting locations, on both public and private land; how to locate areas that other hunters aren’t using; and how to make competition work in your favor.
  
• Detailed sections on furred small game, upland birds, and waterfowl, covering the biology and best hunting methods for a total of thirty small game species.
  
• Comprehensive information about hunting wild turkeys in both the spring and fall seasons.
  
• How to master the arts of wingshooting and rifle marksmanship, and detailed information about shot placement, ammunition selection, and field maintenance of firearms and archery equipment.
  
• Instructions on how to field dress and butcher your own small game animals for a variety of preparations.
  
• Techniques and recipes for both indoor and outdoor wild game cooking.

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