Best 10 Wild Game Cookbook Deals on Sale

This is the one I’d grab first. Rinella’s outdoor cookbook is built around the cooking situations hunters actually deal with, meaning grill, smoker, campstove, and campfire, not a Wolf range with a sous vide bath. Recipes lean toward venison, waterfowl, and upland birds with a lot of practical guidance on heat management. At 55% off it’s the deepest discount I’ve tracked on this title since last fall.

Volume 1 covers big game, which for most West Virginia readers means whitetail and the occasional bear. The butchering section alone is worth the cover price if you’ve ever stood in your garage staring at a hanging deer wondering where to start the first cut. Photos are clear, the writing is plain, and the recipes assume you have access to whole cuts rather than ground.

Volume 2 picks up where the first leaves off, covering small game and fowl. This is the book that earns its place when you finally bag a turkey and want to do something with the dark meat beyond grinding it. Squirrel, rabbit, dove, and duck all get proper treatment with butchering walkthroughs alongside the recipes.

Philip Hasheider’s reference is the technical companion to the Rinella books, focused on butchering, smoking, and curing. If you’ve been thinking about building a smokehouse or running your own summer sausage, this is the manual. The discount here is shallow at 7% off, so this is a buy-it-because-you-need-it pick rather than a bargain grab.

DK does field guides better than almost anyone, and this one earns its keep with photo plates that show edible species next to common look-alikes. That’s the part most cheap mushroom apps get wrong. At 43% off this is the lowest I’ve seen it priced this season, and the bestseller rank backs up that other people have noticed.

Page Street’s entry leans more toward kitchen application after the forage. Identification gets honest treatment, then the book moves into preserving and cooking the haul. Less encyclopedic than the DK guide, more useful if you’ve already gotten comfortable identifying a handful of common species and want to actually eat them.

This one straddles cookbook and field guide territory, which is why I’m including it. It walks through foraging, trapping, fishing, and how to actually turn the result into a meal in the woods. Useful if your hunting trips involve cabins without freezers, or if you backpack and want more than freeze-dried packets.

Dave Canterbury’s Bushcraft 101 is the entry point for the whole series and probably the most-recommended bushcraft book of the last decade. Heavy on the practical side of long-term woods skills, lighter on dramatic survival scenarios. Under ten dollars at this discount, which is hard to argue with.

If you already own Bushcraft 101 and want the cooking-focused companion, this is it. Trapping setups, plant identification for food, and how to cook what you catch over an open fire. Bestseller rank #5 in its category at the moment, so it’s not just me recommending it.

The MeatEater wilderness skills book is the non-cooking companion to Rinella’s outdoor cookbook above. Navigation, weather, gear selection, and the kind of practical hunting trip planning that doesn’t show up in glossier titles. Pairs well with the cookbook for a full reference shelf, and if you missed our recent deals roundups this is one of the better-priced hunting reads to surface this month.