While there's certainly no shortage of great preblended jerky-making kits on the market, it is fun and rewarding to make your own. — Steven Rinella Fun Copy Share Image
It's not a big leap mentally to see the extension from gardening and farmer's markets to hunting local foods. I think that's… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Sure, hunters remove limited numbers of animals from the landscape for personal use. But with proper management practices and good habitat, those… — Steven Rinella Animals Copy Share Image
As much as I can do things where I make lifelong partners and outdoor adventures with my kids and train them up… — Steven Rinella Adventure Copy Share Image
My culture, Euro-American culture, did so many horrible things to the animal and treated it with such disrespect and such wanton greed.… — Steven Rinella American culture Copy Share Image
Today, you want to be as fair to the animal as possible by diminished suffering and waste. If you have to shoot… — Steven Rinella Animal Copy Share Image
I have done some overseas hunting, including in New Zealand and with Amerindians in the jungles of South America. In those cases,… — Steven Rinella America Copy Share Image
I want my kids to know that they're at an eye-to-eye level with nature. They are not terribly removed from it. They're… — Steven Rinella Children Copy Share Image
I try to encourage people to look at wild game in terms of the characteristics of the ingredient you're working with, to… — Steven Rinella Game Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we always ate the heart of a deer soon after killing it. My mom cooked it very… — Steven Rinella Dad Copy Share Image
For me personally, I like to have a very intimate hands-on relationship with nature, and a through line in my life has… — Steven Rinella Intimate Copy Share Image
I'm always aware of the fact I'm talking to my tribe of people who've grown up in the outdoors, and want a… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I own guns now. I know how to use them. I was brought up knowing that I could use them to feed… — Steven Rinella Guns Copy Share Image
When you're out in the woods, and you hear a gunshot, it is very hard to place - where it came from.… — Steven Rinella Attention Copy Share Image
He went off and fought in World War II. He had me when he was pretty old, so my dad's a World… — Steven Rinella Army Copy Share Image
I want my work to inspire people to think about the things that they love, to learn about the things that they… — Steven Rinella Advocate Copy Share Image
I got interested in writing at a early age, and wanted to be an outdoor writer. And was trained to, encouraged to… — Steven Rinella Age Copy Share Image
I wanted to be Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone. I always assumed that I would become some kind of professional trapper, not… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I had been raised in, and maintained, a very close relationship with the natural world. And I was honestly kind of stressed… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I welcome any opportunity to cook game for the uninitiated. They always, and I mean always, come away from the meal with… — Steven Rinella Hunting Copy Share Image
My first two kids were born in New York City, but there is a lot of exploration to be done just learning… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I've said many times that I wouldn't hunt if I didn't enjoy it, and I wouldn't hunt if it weren't for the… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter to me where you are. The sun's still doing its arc across the sky so there are still plenty… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I like to put myself into situations where I can experience the unconfused purity of being a human predator. Situations where my… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I want my kids to see, to be surrounded by adults and surrounded by people who influence them, who live a life… — Steven Rinella Children Copy Share Image
Yeah, I never, ever prescribe hunting. I would never say to somebody, I'd never say like, 'Hey man, I know you don't… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
During my high-school and community-college years in western Michigan, I sold firewood to supplement my meager income from on-again, off-again construction work. — Steven Rinella Construction Copy Share Image
When I buy a new Leatherman, I carry it in the worn-out old sheaf from my 1994 Super Tool so that people… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
