How to Field Dress & Prepare Wild Game Meat with THE Hank Shaw

So you punched your tag for a game animal (deer, elk, moose, etc.) now what? There are a million ways to screw up your wild game in the field and Hank Shaw came to Gearbox talk to explain not only how to handle wild game meat in the field, but also how to handle it at home. Hank Shaw shares the knives you need for field dressing and butchering, saving meat from a gut shot animal, butcher paper versus vacuum seal, and finally how to properly thaw your meat—which we could all learn a thing or two on.

Hank Shaw is a James Beard Award-winning author and chef that focuses all of his energies on wild foods: Foraging, fishing, hunting. Hank writes cookbooks and he even does a podcast, too. If it’s wild game, fish or edible wild plants and mushrooms, Hank Shaw is your guy.

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