Table of contents : Be choosy about the deer you shoot -- Shots for better tasting venison -- Field dressing deer -- From field to meat pole -- The essential guide to trouble-free skinning -- A step-by-step manual to quartering -- Facts about properly aging venison -- Enclosed butchering work areas -- Butchering at deer camp -- The butchering groups -- Tools of the trade -- Butchering your deer -- Butchering loins and ribs -- Tenderizing venison -- How to convert venison meat cuts to ground -- Stew meat -- Packaging, freezing, and thawing venison -- Venison nutrition -- Delicious venison recipes -- Toxoplasmosis : what you should know.