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Guides — long-form chapters (15)

01 — Texas Game Species Field Guide (North Texas Focus)

Scope: North Texas Blackland Prairie / Post Oak Savannah / Cross Timbers biomes — Fannin, Grayson, Red River, Lamar, Hunt, Cooke, and adjacent…

02 — Texas Hunting Legal Primer

Scope. What a landowner on a 60-acre North Texas parcel needs to know to hunt, trap, and fish on their own land under Texas Parks & Wildlife…

03 — Field Dressing Picture Book

Scope. Step-by-step field dressing (gutting) of the animal immediately after the kill, in the field, with the minimum tools a hunter should always…

04 — Skinning Technique

Scope. How to take the hide off a carcass cleanly — preserving the meat for butchering and the hide for tanning. Techniques are ordered from large…

05 — Meat Recovery & Primal Cuts (Deer & Hog Focus)

Scope. Everything from the hanging, skinned carcass to clean cuts in the freezer or wrapped for curing. Emphasis on maximum yield — most beginning…

06 — Disease & Offal Safety Reference

Scope. Zoonotic diseases — illnesses transmissible from wild animals to humans — that North Texas hunters will realistically encounter, plus how to…

07 — Brain Tanning Step-by-Step

Scope. Traditional brain tanning (also called "buckskinning" or "Indian tanning") is the oldest method of converting a raw hide into a soft, durable,…

08 — Bark Tanning with Texas Tannins

Scope. Bark tanning (also called vegetable tanning or "veg tan") is the pre-industrial method of turning hide into heavy, firm, waterproof leather…

09 — Primitive Snare & Deadfall Construction

Scope. Traps that can be built entirely from materials found on a 60-acre North Texas parcel, using only a knife (or in some cases not even a knife).…

10 — Trapping Legal Traps in Texas

Scope. Modern manufactured traps — foothold, body-grip, cage, and cable-restraint — as applied on a North Texas property under current Texas Parks &…

11 — Hunting Weapons: Firearms, Bows, and Primitive

Scope. Every tool a 60-acre North Texas homesteader might use to take game, from a top-break .22 single-shot to a handmade selfbow and a cast-iron…

12 — Game Calls & Decoy Construction

Scope. Building, tuning, and using the game calls and decoys a Fannin County homestead actually needs — turkey, waterfowl, deer, predator. Materials…

13 — Wild Game Long-Term Meat Preservation

Scope. Everything from the moment the freezer is full to the moment the last pint of last year's hog finds its way onto the table next December.…

Reading Animal Sign and Forward Tracking

Hunting & Trapping Guide 14 — Steadwise Offline Survival Dataset

Stalking and Silent Movement

Hunting & Trapping Guide 15 — Steadwise Offline Survival Dataset

Manuals & references (7)

Fb1186 Pork On The Farm 1945

Reference document.

Fb1334 Home Tanning Leather And Small Fur Skins

Reference document.

Fb1733 Planning A Subsistence Homestead

Reference document.

Fb396 The Muskrat

Reference document.

Fb913 Killing Hogs Curing Pork

Reference document.

Slaughtering Cutting Processing Beef On The Farm

Reference document.

Usda Foothold Traps In Wildlife Damage Mgmt

Reference document.

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