Hot Hunting & Taxidermy How-Tos
How To: Dress a deer
If you like to hunt or just enjoy the taste of venison, check out this video for learning how to dress a deer. Hunting is more humane than factory farms, right?
How To: Tan a deer hide the old fashioned way
This is the first step in tanning hides and making leather the old fashioned way. Sometimes called braintan, smoke tan, Indian tan or home tan. Watch this demonstrator scrap the hair and grain from the hide.
How To: Shoot at a skeet range
Chuck Gaskin at Dorchester Shooting Preserve teaches young teen girl the basics of shotgun shooting on skeet range. Watch and learn!
How To: Breast a pigeon
Shooting Times cookery writer, Mark Hinge, shows you how to properly breast a pigeon.
How To: Pluck a woodcock
Shooting Times cookery writer, Mark Hinge, shows how to pluck a Woodcock.
How To: Use a MEC ShotShell Shotgun reloader
The Hunting Sensei reviews and walks through the use of a MEC ShotShell Shotgun reloader.
How To: Set a beaver trap on a dam
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.
How To: Use a box call for turkeys
Watch Harold Knight as he demonstrates how best to use a box call for turkey calling.
How To: Use a turkey decoy successfully for hunting
Watch Harold Knight and David Hale use a turkey decoy successfully during turkey season. Part 1 of 3 - How to Use a turkey decoy successfully for hunting.
How To: Set a rabbit snare
Get tips from this video on how to set a rabbit snare.
How To: Make a rabbit snare
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.
How To: Set a rabbit snare
Check out this video to learn how to set a rabbit snare.
How To: Use a closed reed predator call for coyote hunting
Check out this instructional video for making closed reed predator calls.
How To: Use a diaphram mouth call for turkeys
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.
How To: Train a dog to use a field blind to hunt water fowl
Join Fowl Pursuit's Shawn Stahl as he explains tips and tactics on training your dog to use a field blind while hunting waterfowl.
How To: Use a short reed goose call
Listen to Real Outdoors TV host Matt Wettish as he explains the easy use of a short reed goose call.
How To: Use game cameras for property protection
Helpful tips on how best to use a game camera for property protection.
How To: Manage deer on your property for hunting
4 things you MUST do for a successful deer management program. A successful program means healthy deer and great hunting!
How To: Place a deer feeder
Helpful tips for how to find the right location for your deer feeder.
How To: Feed deer using a food plot spreader
This video shows you how to feed deer using a food plot spreader.
How To: Crown a wood pigeon
Learn how to quickly and simply remove the whole breast of meat from a woodpigeon.
How To: Make a survival atlatl for turkey hunting
Here's a short video on how to make an atlatl for getting Turkey's during the Thanksgiving season. This version is not meant for general use, but rather as a hunting alternative for those who are lost in the forest, or who just want to have some fun with a weapon that's over 20,000 years old.
How To: clean skulls
Based in Santa Monica, we don't have much occasion to go hunting or clean skulls. We could, but we just do not.
How To: Care for the velvet in taxidermy
This is a video on how to take care of early season velvet horns.
How To: Make a closed reed coyote call
Made from cherry wood, this is a handmade woodcarved coyote call. Thanks to information posted on Preditormasters for the help in making this video.
How To: Use box, trumpet and paddle calls for wild turkeys
Custom Turkey Call Maker Marlin Watkins demonstrates how to use box calls, trumpet calls, and paddle calls for calling wild turkeys.
How To: Call turkeys
This is a fantastic tutorial on the three different turkey calls you want to make while hunting.
How To: Skin a turkey
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
How To: Clean a wild turkey
This video demonstrates how to fillet the breast of a wild turkey. Technique also works on geese.
How To: Field dress a deer 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!
How To: Bow hunt an alligator with grapple
Kevin Sullivan explains why Innerloc's Gator Grapple3 is a superior point for bowfishing alligators and big fish. Bow hunt an alligator with grapple.
How To: Track a wounded deer at night
This video covers some of the basics of tracking a wounded whitetail deer in the dark.
How To: Follow a wildlife trail
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.
How To: Hunt deer in the woods
Some tips for going deer hunting in the woods. Part 1 of 2 - How to Hunt deer in the woods.
How To: Track wild hogs
Learn how to track wild hogs in the woods. Part 1 of 2 - How to Track wild hogs.
How To: Track animals
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.
How To: Track a black bear
In this video series, Nick and Valerie Wisniewski talk about animal tracks and signs, specifically that of the black bear Ursus Americanus.
How To: Track wild animals
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.
How To: Shoot doubles like Wayne Mayes
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.
How To: Keep your shoulders straight when skeet shooting
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.