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A Hurried Butcher Job Turned the Best Meat Into Hamburger
The buck was on the ground before eight in the morning, a clean little eight point that had walked out of a cedar thicket…
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A Feral Hog Is Not a Deer, and the First One You Clean Proves It
The call came at six in the morning from a man named Darrell who owns…
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Great-Grandfather’s Leather Folder, Recipe No. 17: Poke Sallet
The last page of the folder is the plainest one in the whole stack. No…
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Great-Grandfather’s Leather Folder, Recipe No. 16: Catfish
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Great-Grandfather’s Leather Folder, Recipe No. 14: Soft-Shell Turtle
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You Cross a Country of Alkali Flats Where the Only Water for Forty Miles Tastes Like Soap.
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The Best Cut of Deer Spent Ten Years in the Gut Pile
For the first ten years I killed deer, I threw the heart in the gut pile. Not out of disrespect.…
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Great-Grandfather’s Leather Folder, Recipe No. 13: Gar
The page after the coot was the first clean sheet in the whole folder, no grease, no burn, no stain…
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Great-Grandfather’s Leather Folder, Recipe No. 12: Coot
The page after the old hen had a corner burned clean off, the char running halfway down the margin and…
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You Fire Into a Thousand Buffalo and Take Only the Tongue. Now Cut Out the Meat and Move On.
You wake because the ground is shaking. Not much, just enough that the tin cup beside your bedroll rattles against…
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Great-Grandfather’s Leather Folder, Recipe No. 11: Old Hen
The brown ring on the page behind the corned venison turned out to be rust from some old iron lid,…