Top 5 Wild Game Care Mistakes

When we are hunting, we are hunters. Focused on the dogs, the field, the birds and the shot. But once you have that pheasant, quail, partridge or other bird in hand, you cease to become a hunter – if only for a moment or two – and become a cook. After all, sharing our daily bag at the table with friends and family provides the exclamation point to any hunt. But no one wants to eat stinky, rotten pheasant.

Here are some of the most common game care mistakes I see in the field and in the kitchen. All of us are...