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    The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Wild Game: Recipes and Techniques for Every North American Hunter
    The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Wild Game: Recipes and Techniques for Every North American Hunter
    The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Wild Game: Recipes and Techniques for Every North American Hunter
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    The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Wild Game: Recipes and Techniques for Every North American Hunter

    By James O. Fraioli

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    The new go-to cookbook for wild game hunters in North America!

    Wild game also has the edge when it comes to flavor, and with that delectable flavor comes the benefits of essential fats like omega-6 and omega-3, which are critical components of a healthy diet. Enjoy seventy-five simple and delicious recipes for cooking the wild game through the recipes featured in this book, including:
    • Hare Braised in Red Wine
    • Peruvian Style Rabbit Sliders
    • Black Bear Meatloaf
    • Elk Medallions with Cranberry Sauce
    • Antelope Summer Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette
    • Reindeer Stroganoff
    • Venison Stir Fry
    • Roasted Wild Boar Leg with Mustard Caper Sauce
    • Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeno Dove Poppers
    • Smoked Grouse
    • Kung Pao Pheasant
    • Southern Fried Quail
    • Pan-Seared Duck Breast with Port Wine Sauce
    • Alligator Gumbo
    • Cajun-Fried Bullfrog Legs


    Each dish is paired with a suggested wine to further enhance your dining experience among friends and family. There’s also helpful tips on proper field dressing equipment, refrigerator and freezer space, proper packaging and storing, defrosting and food safety, and tools and kitchen essentials.

    Within the pages of The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Wild Game, twenty-five popular game animals are highlighted and discussed. Amateur and experienced hunters alike will enjoy learning about each animal's origin, range, migration and travel patterns, life span, size and weight, typical habitat, desired foods, why the particular animal is targeted, where it can be hunted, along with hunting tips and why it makes for excellent table fare.

    Whether you hunt for food, for pleasure, or for environmental management, know that you are engaging in a normal, natural, and innate human instinct that has been with mankind and our predecessors for hundreds of thousands of years and one that will be with us for many more years to come. Enjoy the hunt, and the tastes and flavors of your successes with a little help from this new book!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateOct 13, 2020
    ISBN9781510755475
    The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Wild Game: Recipes and Techniques for Every North American Hunter

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      The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Wild Game - James O. Fraioli

      COOKING WILD GAME: ANIMAL PROFILES & RECIPES

      SMALL GAME

      HARE

      Lepus

      Hares (a.k.a. Jackrabbits) are a completely different species than rabbits. There are eight species of jackrabbits found in North America, including black-tailed, white-tailed, antelope, white-sided, snowshoe (the smallest hare, which is also known as the varying hare), Arctic tundra, and European. In general, their range spans across much of the western half of the United States and south into Mexico. These different species of hares can reach weights from about 4 pounds (black-tailed jacks) to 15 pounds (Arctic hares).

      A hare’s diet mainly consists of plant matter, wildflowers, a variety of weeds, seeds, vegetables, and fruit, with grass being one of the hare’s most preferred foods. Some hares, like snow jacks, have peculiar eating habits in that they eat meat and fish, mostly during the winter.

      Many hunters prefer shooting hares rather than cottontails because their large size provides more meat. There are several different ways to hunt hares, but the primary strategy is to hunt them with dogs. The most popular hunting dog breed for hares is the beagle. The large beagle, up to 15 inches at the shoulder, has little trouble tracking hares through deep snow, piles of brush, or heavy thickets and forcing hares out of the cover and past the hunter. Some hare hunters even prefer to use basset hounds or bluetick hounds, as they can keep up the chase with fast-running hares.

      Other hare-hunting tactics include drives, still-hunting, and stand-hunting. Hares can be effectively driven from cover by a hunter. To employ this method, locate brush piles, thickets, or other types of thick cover. One hunter walks slowly through, stopping often to kick twigs and branches. The second hunter sets up in an opening away from the brush, waiting to shoot any hare bent on escaping. A 16- or 20-gauge shotgun is the ideal firearm for this strategy. Drives often produce a lot of fast action and anticipation—sometimes ending in laughter, as the hunters are left cussing at the hare that just escaped their plan unscathed.

      Another hunting tactic is for a lone hunter to still-hunt for hares. Begin by looking for tracks and poop. Snow makes locating hare tracks a lot easier. Tracks usually lead to where hares are lying up. Generally, hares head for thick edge-cover in the hardwoods—places where hunters might look for grouse. Most times, these areas can be found in low-lying cedar swamps, the edges of beaver ponds, old grown-over fruit orchards, and other secluded places that provide food and cover from predators. A 12-gauge shotgun is an ideal firearm to use, as the hare usually escapes through a lot of thick cover.

      Because hares nest above ground instead of using underground burrows, they tend to respond to danger differently than rabbits. Instead of seeking shelter underground, hares explode from their nest and, using their longer and stronger hind legs, run off at high speeds to escape danger. Jackrabbits and speed-jacks got their nicknames because of how fast they can run. They have been clocked at speeds ranging from 30 to 45 mph, and they can leap up to 10 feet at a single bound—making the hunting action fast and frantic on both dogs and hunters. Only keen reflexes and a dead-eye shot will consistently fill a hunter’s game bag when shooting at fast-running hares.

      Hare hunting with or without dogs requires a good set of snowshoes. In open terrain, some hunters even use cross-country skis. It also pays to dress in layered clothing, have waterproof footwear, warm gloves, hat, and insulated long-johns. A quality pair of sunglasses are a must when the ground is covered in bright

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