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Rinella is on point

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2022

Great read, as usual when it comes to Rinella. This book is a thorough and well explained look into small game. Even for someone with hunting experience.

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Guy Caballero

Not for Total Noobs

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2018

This is a fine book for people who already know a little about hunting, but it's not for total beginners. He sort of assumes you have guns and that you know how to stalk game and so on. If you're looking for a book that makes up for the fact that your dad and grandpa were urban snowflakes who didn't teach you the basics, this won't get the job done.

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bradley ashby

Rinella is on point

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2022

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Great read, as usual when it comes to Rinella. This book is a thorough and well explained look into small game. Even for someone with hunting experience.

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Matthew D

Great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 19, 2022

Very informative!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2022

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Steve Rinella is a great hunter, great author, and really understands that pictures help a lot on keeping readers engaged. I recommend every one of his books.

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Tiffany Leeann

Great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2022

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This book has so many great things to know, understand and learn.

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The Sleepless Knight

Best hunting author currently out there (circa 2018)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2018

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I am a fan of Rinella's from watching "Meateater" and listening to his "Meateater" podcast. I bought his first book "Meateater: Adventures in the Life of an American Hunter" and was hooked.

I bought this book via Kindle but after a once-through reading decided to buy the paperback version of it so my other family members could read and reference it too. Once I got the book in hand I re-read it and I'm glad I did. For whatever reason I picked up a lot more from the paperback than I ever did from the Kindle version. I guess it probably has something to do with the reference-book feel this book has and the ability to skip around and gather in the whole picture of what this book offers up. The Kindle format works really well for a novel or a mono-formatted book like a historical non-fiction.......this book is neither.

One thing I want to point out about Rinella..........his style of writing (and talking) and his methods, tools and attitudes towards the animals and pursuit really make sense to me. As a transplanted Mid-westerner now living and hunting in the West myself I can really identify where he's coming from on having to evolve from Midwestern traditions and methods about hunting to the Western US approach to the critters out here in the West. Until I'd read Rinella I hadn't stumbled across anyone that eloquently and accurately describes this transition.

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fenderguy91r

The BEST Hunting Guide I Ever Owned!!!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2018

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Steve Rinella is literally the most awesome outdoorsman, hunter, and angler of all time! His ethics and the way he carries himself are why I am such a huge fan. I feel like no other person, show, or book explains hunting like Steve does. As a huge fan of his show MeatEater, and being a small game hunter and angler myself, I had to have this book.

I changed a couple of my hunting techniques and even upgraded some of my gear, based directly on the information in the book. I found that I was more successful this hunting season because of it! I have already used some of the recipes for the upland game birds that I took this season and they were awesome!

Whether you are a seasoned hunter or brand new to the outdoor sport, this book is a must have. The wealth of knowledge in it is amazing to say the least!

I loved this book so much, that I ordered his other book, The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game: Volume 1: Big Game , and will be going on a couple big game hunts later this year because of it!

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Guy

Excellent Guide for the Inexperienced Hunter & Old Gunners

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 3, 2016

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I've hunted for 50 plus years, but I'm always open to new ideas. Through experience, I've certainly learned my way is not always the best way. To find a source of information that can help me do something quicker, cleaner and more efficiently is welcomed with open arms. This book provided me with a couple of methods of butchering that were better than my old way.

This book provides a wealth of information for those who are new to hunting and those who have not hunted for a long period of time. It covers a wide range of information from hunting gear, to shot placement on game, archery, game habitat, basic marksmanship, info on many different game species, recipes, and cleaning and butchering of the game. Though experienced hunters should know much of this info, there is still valuable insight that makes this book a worthwhile purchase, strictly my view. For those with little experience, this book is a jewel. If you have the bucks to purchase it, buy it. You'll be 100% happy you did. I cannot imagine that those looking for knowledge on this subject would be unhappy.

Whatever you decision, I wish you warm campfires, good friends, laughter, and the wonders of the great outdoors.

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greg

Great read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2022

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The book is so well written that it is like reading an adventure story. I read every page—even about species that are not in my region. It just serves to make one aspire to travel.

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N. Lusk

The most comprehensive small game book to date.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2015

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Steven Rinella is the single best hunting and cooking author in the game. There are other writers who cover one topic extremely well (countless books exist about hunting, and many new wild-game recipe books are emerging, like those from the excellent Hank Shaw), but no book covers the entire experience - from equipment selection, to finding land, stalking your prey, and preparing it at home - as well as this one.
This is an enjoyable read, a must-have for every hunter, and a boon to anyone who wants to prepare wild game with the respect that it deserves. I have 27 years of bird and rabbit hunting under my boots, yet I still learned a great deal from this series. This book is Volume 2, a companion to his first book, Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking: Volume 1 Big Game (which is also excellent).
My hat is off to Mr. Rinella for such an ambitious and well done book. If you hunt small game, or would like to, this book is for you.

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Good info tool for preppers, and good for novice to medium hunters, too

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2016

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I feel like this Vol 2 is just as good, well-laid-out, sensible, and comprehensive as Vol 1 (big game) was.

I'm interested in learning this subject as a prepper, not as an active hunter, but I feel this is a good learning tool for preppers and new or medium-level hunters. It goes into many details that a hunter will need to know, like licensing and blinds and tactics, and such, and also supports the prepper standpoint of using all available resources. It's rather large and heavy to carry, so best studied prior to need, but I do believe it's a valuable resource.

Just to mention, there is info on handling hides for tanning, but does not go much into tanning itself, since that's really another subject.

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