How To: Joint and butcher a roe deer
Take a look at this instructional video of a three part series in how to joint and butcher a roe deer. This tutorial covers the basics and is ideal for home venison and choice cuts.
Take a look at this instructional video of a three part series in how to joint and butcher a roe deer. This tutorial covers the basics and is ideal for home venison and choice cuts.
Just got back from your bear hunting trip? Instead of paying a taxidermist, take a look at this instructional video and learn how to clean a bear skull and make a European mount on your own. To use this procedure, you'll need a knives, gloves, large pot, garbage bas, dishwashing soap, a large pail, 3-4 liters of 40 volume peroxide, and fast drying glue.
In this video taxidermy tutorial series, a professional taxidermist demonstrates how to prepare a whitetail deer cape for mounting. Now that the skin has been fleshed and tanned, the deer head cape is ready to be mounted. The skin will need the mount that will shape the skin, and will require trimming and sewing of the tanned and prepped skin. Watch this instructional video and learn how to prepare a whitetail deer head for mounting.
This video taxidermy tutorial shows how to make a wall mount sculpture of a white crappie fish. The initial fish is bedded into a soft clay mold, and then painted with fiberglass resin. When the mold hardens and dries, it can then be filled with whatever material desired to make the wall mount. Watch this instructional video and learn how to make a mold for a white crappie fish wall mount sculpture.
Some anglers mistake winter flounder for summer flounder or fluke and sometimes even for halibut. To catch winter flounder, you can use a very basic rig with only a hook line and sinker in addition to the clams. Check out this how-to video for more tips on catching winter flounder.
Check out this how-to video to make non typical box traps and to catch wild ring necked pheasants (hens).
When shooting a shotgun, you don't really have to aim--just point and shoot. Whether you hit what you're shooting at depends on how well you did your homework. "Patterning" your shotgun allows you to choose exactly the right brand of shells, size and type of shot and type of choke required for the game you're pursuing. Set yourself up 40 yards from a 30-inch circle target, and bring along several brands of shells in various shot sizes. Use some form of rest like sandbags on a table or a rolle...
Have you ever wanted to cut a rabbit's foot off? Then check out this how-to video for skinning rabbits, you meanie.
Listen to Real Outdoors TV host Matt Wettish as he gives some very simple tips on learning how to use a diaphram mouth call for turkeys. This tutorial will also help the intermediate caller become better.
Custom Turkey Call Maker Marlin Watkins demonstrates how to use box calls, trumpet calls, and paddle calls for calling wild turkeys.
Before hunting season you should spend some time in the woods tracking deer and wild hogs. This video discusses following a deer or wildlife trail.
In this video series, Nick and Valerie Wisniewski talk about animal tracks and signs, specifically that of the black bear Ursus Americanus.
In this video series, Nick and Valerie Wisniewski show you how to identify different animals like bears, beavers, bobcats, deer, rabbits, foxes and more, in the wild.
The title is pretty self explanatory, how to skin a deer, so you can get to the venison, and use the hide for something. Make sure you hang the deer by its hind leg prior to skinning, so that it will be easier to pull the hide off.
Check out this video to learn how to set a rabbit snare.
Learn how to quickly and simply remove the whole breast of meat from a woodpigeon.
In this video series, Nick and Valerie Wisniewski are going to talk about how to go over the basics of tracking an animal. They talk about measuring tracks, stride, gait, patterns and signs for some types of tracks.
If you're going to build a coyote trap, you want to make absolutely sure you get it right. After all, the last thing you need to deal with is a furious coyote getting loose after you've trapped him! In this video you'll learn how to make a cheap and effective coyote trap.
Watch the captain show you how to skin a dogfish in this how-to video (if you can hear what he's saying!)
Check out this video to learn how-to quickly and easily skin a squirrel. This is about as easy as it gets to prepare your squirrel for eating.
Whether deer archery season is close by or not, follow Clinton Hill, 13, who is ready for his first bow. For archers of any age, when you get the right advice -- bull's eye! Check out this video to learn how to set up your bow and shoot from a tree stand.
A beaver trap is set up on a pond showing many techniques on how to make a good set. These techniques will apply whether you are using a live trap, snares, long spring, coil or conibear traps.
Helpful tips for how to find the right location for your deer feeder.
How to break down a semi-automatic pistol for cleaning is demonstrated by John Ritenour. Part 1 of 14 - How to Break down a semi-automatic pistol for cleaning.
This video taxidermy tutorial demonstrates the process of molding and casting a fish mount. Any fish can be placed into molding material and covered with plaster to create an exact replica of the fish. When the mold hardens, a duplicate of the fish can be cast. Watch this instructional video and learn how to mold and cast a fish mount for taxidermy statues.
Helpful tips on how best to use a game camera for property protection.
This video shows you how to feed deer using a food plot spreader.
How to skin a Missouri turkey: 1) make small cut through skin on breast, 2) pull breast out - like a quail or pheasant, 3) filet the breast off like you would on Thanksgiving, 4) cut the head off and use for prank, 5) trash rest of bird
There's three types of animal lovers in the world. The first are your basic pet owners. The ones with a
Kentucky Afield: Watch as Tim Farmer hosts the processing of venison, starting in the field and ending in the kitchen. Start with the deer down. Start with the tail and trim around the anus. You want to not break the colon nor the bladder for sanitary reasons. This is a long and delicate process of gutting a deer so that you may bring it easily back to the kitchen to make venison! Field dressing is an important hunting skill. Gut a deer, field dressing.
If your land is frequented by unwanted coyotes, then a land trap could be the solution. This instructional video shows how to set a single dirt hole land trap for catching coyotes. Make sure to keep the hidden trap area free of rocks and sticks, as canines will not generally dig at these objects, and as an added lure, cover the trap backing in urine. Set a single dirt hole land trap.
Wade Bourne, host of Wade's World Hunting at MyOutDoorTV, shows you how to create a "path of least resistance" for deer this season. Let's face it: deer can be pretty stupid. With a little leg work, you can trick your deer into going exactly where you want them. Hunting your prey will be a snap!
In this video, Jason "Bellyeyes" Hanson gives you detailed instructions on how to apply an arrow wrap or fletching to an arrow. This tutorial will shwo you how to maintain your arrows, step by step to make sure they are effective. Happy hunting! Fletch an arrow and apply an arrow wrap.
If you are a hunter, you will eventually need to know how to flesh a raccoon. These cute and fluffy animals aren't typically the ones you would imagine skinning, but if they've gotten into your garbage cans one too many times, who knows? Follow along with this video and learn how to get the skin clean off these backyard dwellers. Flesh a raccoon.
A whistle is really all you need to scout for for squirrels. Squirrel sure is tasty when you fry them up, or whatever, but hunting those little guys can be kind of tricky. Wade Bourne, host of Wade's World on MyOutdoorTV, shows you how to scout for whitetail deer while squirrel hunting.
In this skeet shooting video Todd Bender gives you a little story about how Wayne Mayes sees and shoots the second target. This should really help you with your doubles shooting. Shoot doubles like Wayne Mayes.
If you like to go skeet shooting but need to improve your technique, this video will help you keep you shoulders straight, especially when shooting low shots like the low 3, 4 and 5. Keep your shoulders straight when skeet shooting.
German artist Michael Sans Berlin taxidermied a somewhat sadistic homage to one of his nation's most traditional craft objects, the cuckoo clock (the first version was made in southwest Germany's Black Forest between 1740 and 1750).
Want to help a younger sibling get over his or her fear of the dark? Get them a horrifying taxidermic nightlight!
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