The Ultimate Guide to Home Butchering: How to Prepare Any Animal or Bird for the Table or Freezer (The Ultimate Guides)
The Ultimate Guide to Home Butchering: How to Prepare Any Animal or Bird for the Table or Freezer (The Ultimate Guides) book cover

The Ultimate Guide to Home Butchering: How to Prepare Any Animal or Bird for the Table or Freezer (The Ultimate Guides)

Price
$18.18
Format
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1616086435
Dimensions
0.6 x 0.09 x 0.9 inches
Weight
1.49 pounds

Description

About the Author Monte Burch is an award-winning freelance writer, photographer, and author of over seventy-five books and thousands of outdoors and how-to magazine articles. A prolific writer, he sells to markets such as Field & Stream and American Hunter . His books range from building outdoor gear and hunting lodges to hunting turkeys to seasonal patterns for walleye. As a photographer, he has had magazine cover shots on Bassmaster , Sports Afield , and many others.

Features & Highlights

  • Don’t go another season without this valuable guide to preparing your harvest for the table or deep freezer.
  • Here is a complete guide to home butchering, with recommendations on which tools (knives, paring knives, meat scissors, meat grinders, shrink wrappers) to use for the task at hand. It covers everything from field dressing, skinning, and boning out a whole deer, to efficiently butchering rabbits, deer, big game, hogs, gamebirds, cattle, and more. 200 color illustrations; 100 black & white illustrations

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Good guide to gutting and cleaning!

The book starts off with safety and hygiene, progresses through what sort of equipment that you need then goes on to plucking, gutting and cleaning and chopping up a variety of birds, game ad farm animals. All the common animals are covered (sheep, pigs, cattle, deer) and everything is covered with plant of color illustrations to guide you. There's also sections on making sausages, lard etc. This is a comprehensive book enhanced with color photo's.
10 people found this helpful
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Great book. Lots of pics.

Book has lots of info for different animals. I would purchase this book for a gift, after reading it myself. Would be a great book for a homesteader or self-sustainer.
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Butchering

This is a very well thought out and illustrated book ! It has lot's of pictures to accompany the text which is good for dummies like me !
1 people found this helpful
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Four Stars

good deal
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Five Stars

Excellent photo's