Hunting & Taxidermy

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.

Do you hunt? Looking to shoulder mount your deer? Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to properly deer skin for a full shoulder mount.

The colors on a dead fish can get a bit dull, but a little bit of acrylic paint will add a life-like vibrancy to the stuffed taxidermy mount. The demonstrator walks through the steps of adding fresh and realistic color to a perch mount with the help of some paint. Watch this video taxidermy tutorial and learn how to paint a stuffed perch with acrylic paints.

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.

Watch the captain show you how to skin a dogfish in this how-to video (if you can hear what he's saying!)

A lot goes into making a hunt successful, and most of it happens before you take to the field--like making sure your rifle is properly sighted in. It's not hard to do if you follow a few simple steps: first, and this is the first step when you do anything with a firearm, make sure it's unloaded. Make sure your scope is properly mounted and the mounting screws are tight. Remove the bolt from the rifle and sight through the barrel to make sure you're lined up with a sight-in target placed at 25...

Have you ever wanted to cut a rabbit's foot off? Then check out this how-to video for skinning rabbits, you meanie.

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.

Chuck Gaskin at Dorchester Shooting Preserve teaches young teen girl the basics of shotgun shooting on skeet range. Watch and learn!

Shooting Times cookery writer, Mark Hinge, shows how to pluck a Woodcock.

Watch Harold Knight as he demonstrates how best to use a box call for turkey calling.

Watch this video to check out how to make a home made rabbit snare. If you can't find stainless steel wire, brass or copper will work just as well. Make sure your string is very strong. Consider using a braided twine that is treated with a non-slip coating to prevent knot slippage.

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.

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.

This is a video on how to take care of early season velvet horns.

This is a fantastic tutorial on the three different turkey calls you want to make while hunting.

Find out a better way to get more quality cuts from the deer that you harvested by watching this how-to video. This instructional video will steer you to the best way of deboning and packaging your meat for the freezer. Watch and learn how to field dress a deer, without the inconvenience of ending the hunt. Let's go slaughter some more deer!

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 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.