Wild Game Recipes You’ll Actually Love | Gun Talk Hunt
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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week on Gun Talk Hunt, host KJ sits down with a panel of wild game experts and hunters to talk through some of the best wild game cooking tips, meat prep strategies, and mouthwatering recipes for elk, venison, squirrel, wild turkey, and more.
Whether you're processing your own meat or using a professional processor, the key to flavor starts with the shot and continues all the way to the skillet. Learn how to avoid gamey flavors, pick the right cuts, and master everything from elk fajitas to squirrel street tacos.
In this episode:
- Field care tips that make wild game taste better
- How shot placement affects flavor and tenderness
- Best cuts and how to prep them: backstrap, heart, shoulder, roast
- Recipes for:
- Elk fajitas, elk heart bruschetta, spicy elk ramen
- Squirrel street tacos, squirrel & dumplings
- Wild turkey brine and crock pot ideas
- Venison stir fry and marinated backstrap
- Tips on processing, freezing, thawing, and cooking wild game properly
- Why overcooking ruins wild meat – and how to avoid it. Unless it's BEAR!
- How habitat and diet affect flavor (including the dangers of salmon-fed bear)
- Mia Anstine – Hunter, wild game chef, and heart-cooking expert
- Chris Ellis (Timney Triggers) – Squirrel and wild turkey master
- Beth Shimanski (Savage Arms) – Venison stir fry and at-home processor
- KJ – Host of Gun Talk Hunt, passionate about meat prep and wild recipes
Have a wild game recipe to share?Email KJ at kj@guntalk.com — it might just end up in a future wild game cookbook!
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About Gun Talk Hunt
Gun Talk Media's Gun Talk Hunt, with Kevin “KJ” Jarnagin, pairs decades of experience with today’s latest tools and technology to help you succeed in the field. Whether it runs or flies - no matter what game you pursue - Gun Talk Hunt is a multi-platform podcast that gives today’s hunters a voice in the digital world.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I hope your mouth is watering because this time on Gun Talk Hunt, we're talking to a great panel of guests all about wild game recipes. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm KJ. You found the right place. |
| 0:14.4 | We go all over this little blue orb, sharing stories and tactics about chasing wild game. |
| 0:20.6 | Now, let's get on the hunt. |
| 0:27.1 | Welcome in all you gun talk hunters. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm your host, KJ, and today we're talking all about wild game. |
| 0:32.6 | It's what's for dinner. |
| 0:34.0 | I've got a great panel of guests here. |
| 0:36.2 | But first, we are brought to you by |
| 0:37.8 | Vortex, Remington Ammo, Range Ready Studios, and Timney Triggers. A great new panel this week. We'd like |
| 0:45.2 | to welcome everybody in. But first, let's head over to one of my favorite people, Mia. You're |
| 0:53.1 | all the way out there in Colorado. |
| 0:55.2 | And when you start talking about wild game, I think you live off of it. |
| 1:00.2 | You and your husband, two of my favorite people, you guys live off of wild game. |
| 1:04.7 | Pretty much. |
| 1:06.8 | So what do you look for when, let's start about like the kind of the pre-hunt, or the post-hunt, |
| 1:14.6 | like preparing of the meat and getting that established and into, you know, your freezer. |
| 1:20.8 | How do you start prepping your game after the shot? |
| 1:25.5 | So I would back up just half a step, KJ, because I think the prep starts with the shot. |
| 1:31.2 | Yes. |
| 1:31.6 | If you make a good shot, it helps to make great tasting game meat. |
| 1:35.6 | But once we get the animal down, hopefully we make a good shot, it dies quickly. |
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