I honestly wasn't sure we would ever top June's installment of Quail Club—but you guys blew me away.  Incredible turnout of outdoor-appreciating, wild game eaters. On the menu were: lobsters that Bortch pulled out of the freezer, yellowtail, tri-tip roasts, whole sea bass, pickled vegetables from our head culinary mentor Jesse Inman, and plenty of beers from our new beer sponsor: Latitude 33. We closed out the night by watching Steven Rinella's new film Stars in the Sky, as the Meateater crew analyzes the complex relationship we have with hunting.

A ton of preparation goes into the front-end of a hunt—between gear, species, maps, draw-odds, and calendars, executing a successful hunt is a puzzle that often takes years to perfect. There is so much excitement over harvesting a game animal, whether it be a dove or an elk and then you realize that you have a whole new set of challenges ahead.  From field dressing to transporting, from breaking-down into manageable parts, to cooking a meal. A game animal, particularly a big-game animal will provide many months worth of meat, and generally a bunch of cuts of meat that are unfamiliar to city-dwelling grocery store shoppers.  Not everything that comes off a cow, elk, deer, or wild pig is a...

The June gathering of Quail Club took our city-dwelling Wild Fish & Wild Game club up a notch thanks to our new club Traeger Grill (sponsored by lululemon), and some incredible contributions to the table from you guys.  On the menu last night were: Elk Steaks, Fresh-As-It-Gets Sheepshead Ceviche, Home-Made Tortillas, Venison Nachos, Yellowtail, and of course a couple beers. Thank you guys to all of you who came out, and all of you who brought something to share at the table.  The enthusiasm for wild fish, wild game, and spending more time outdoors is at an all time high.  See you in July!

My friend Ryan is gifted and inventive in the kitchen, and his fascination and love for food is about to go to a new depth—Ryan is planning his first Pronghorn hunt for Wyoming this Fall.  Kind of a fork leading him to the field thing... Having been on exactly one more Pronghorn hunt than Ryan has, I feel compelled to help get him as ready as possible for this experience. My 2016 Pronghorn Hunt with my Dad was one of my all-time favorite experiences, and a memory I will cherish a lifetime.  The amount you learn by experiencing something once is significant, although I know enough to know I'm no expert. For the sake of this article, we are going...

How many fewer paper and plastic cups would we all use if we carried a steel mug around with us everywhere? It’s like when you go backpacking and you drink your coffee and eat your ramen noodles out of the same mug... but in everyday life. Photo: @cam_oden

Let me be super clear: you should absolutely be using OnX Maps. There is an out-of-state unit that I'm researching for a hunt that I would love to try to do this Fall, and I don't know what I would do if it weren't for OnX.  If you're unaware, OnX maps is a hunting app that allows you to see land-ownership data, which is incredibly helpful to have on your smartphone when you're navigating public/private boundaries and looking for pockets to hunt that you otherwise would have driven right past. The slickest part of the whole system is you can download the map data, and go to "offline mode" so even when you have no cell service, your GPS still...