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Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game: Beef, Veal, Pork, Lamb, Poultry, Rabbit, Venison https://www.amazon.com/dp/0882663917/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_O-g5Bb9ZEE5WQ
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This is why I keep copies of Basic Butchering Livestock & Game and A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing and Smoking Meat, Fish & Game in my library and thumb through it on the regular.
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I've heard good things about "Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game" by John Mettler
I used to live in a 1000 sq ft apartment in Vancouver and still hunted and butchered my own meat. Aged it on my balcony in the biggest tote I could find from Walmart, with ice and some way to keep the meat up off the bottom, carefully monitor temperature.
Then, yeah, with good knives, a meat grinder and a bone saw I can butcher and pack away an entire buck in one night. Do it yourself, it's a fantastic skill to have and you will yield a ton more and better cuts, and far better attention to cleanliness - I highly recommend this book http://www.amazon.ca/Basic-Butchering-Livestock-Game-Mettler/dp/0882663917
This is an excellent source for basic knowledge, and an easy read!
http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Butchering-Livestock-Game-Mettler/dp/0882663917/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1278971663&sr=1-1
Everything you don’t already know, you can get from here:
Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game: Beef, Veal, Pork, Lamb, Poultry, Rabbit, Venison https://www.amazon.com/dp/0882663917/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_LXRYDbAJ5VC4R
The problem when viewing it as a way to save money is that you'd need to get a whole animal or a large section of it to butcher down. This may not be economical either unless you want to store the meat for a long time or want to split costs with friends.
You could also try just buying cheaper cuts of animal parts to begin with and learn to cook edible meals with those. I haven't picked up a copy of it myself but Tony Bourdain raves about Fergus Henderson's book
If you're really dead set on it, try to see if any local butcher shops are willing to do lessons. Buy small animals (poultry, rabbits, etc.) and google for tutorials on how to skin and clean those animals. There's a wealth of knowledge to be found on google. Here's a book on butchering too.
Enjoy!
While I don't own a copy myself (yet), I have heard good things about this book.
http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Butchering-Livestock-Game-Mettler/dp/0882663917/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310938499&sr=8-1
I'm newer to this but also live in WA state and intend to "bug in" rather than out in a shit scenario.
SAS survival guide is awesome so far. I'm reading through it and I got a spare copy to keep in my SHTF can. http://smile.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Handbook-Revised-Situation/dp/0061733199/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398350073&sr=1-1&keywords=sas+survival+guide
As a nooby hunter, I grabbed this one too- "Basic butchering of livestock and game" http://smile.amazon.com/dp/0882663917/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2MVWQ49SCGVGV&coliid=I3SD7QD3U8DZBD
also "A guide to canning, freezing, curing, and smoking meat, fish, and game."
http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0050H1EZI/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2MVWQ49SCGVGV&coliid=I33TWUFB25UNYA
I'd say that Ed and Jack there are a bit overzealous. You SHOULD have these books and be reading them before SHTF but the idea that books are worthless is... stupid, frankly. In the first 72 hours? Sure. You need to KNOW what you're doing to make it through the first couple days. But if the power goes out or something, what else are you going to do? You're gonna get bored and keeping your mind busy is a big step toward not going crazy. Keeping your mind busy on stuff that will HELP rather than sudoku makes a lot more sense to me.
Anyway- First aide, food, resource storage/gathering, and defense are the ways to go, IMO.