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Originally Posted By river_rat:
So how many "links" of tail do you have lose to keep from getting the venom from the stinger? We cut off the last 'link' with the stinger and you're good to go. |
223 gets the job done, 308 makes a statement, 50 BMG shows an attitude!
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Well someone was supposed to send me a groundhog, but that never happened.
So I was gonna eat a fox, but out of the 5 I've shot this year, 2 had rabies, one exploded from the hit, and 2 were in the back of the truck for too long. Pigeon has been suggested, and I'd eat it, but it's really just like a dove or something around here. So any suggestions? I'm still up for fox, just got to get a clean one. |
| Groundhog is just like rabbit. If its an old one, you can bbq, oven roast it on a rack, or chunk it up for stew. If you get a young one in the spring/early summer, you can cut it up, dust it in flour and fry, like young rabbit. Not gross at all. I used to use a 7mmRemMag for a chuck gun, using 100gr handloads at 3500fps. Just do head shots and you will end up with the chuck to eat. I did one COM shot once, just red mist and a smear. |
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well, we were having a bbq and i was in the process of ridding my lawn of those pesky gophers when my brother decided he wanted to eat one (some alcohol was involved). I checked my trap a little bit after that to find that i had gotten one, so my brother cleaned it, put it on a skewer and cooked it up. Since he had it cooked up i figured i might as well try a piece and it wasn't too bad.
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this thread is full of win and lulz.
for those mentioning armadillo, btdt. i lived in south america for a couple of years and a family down there baked and armadillo in the shell for us. it tasted pretty good. i've had squirrel in a gumbo, made by my wife's grandpa. i thought it was pretty good. when i lived in baton rouge, people sold coons out of the back of their trucks. aforementioned wife's grandpa said he'd cook some up if i wanted. never got around to it before we moved. great thread rizzo. |
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Holy Mother of GOD this thread is making me hungry!!
Rizzo, I've had grain fed (well, more like grain thieving) pidgeon, and it was fine, just like any other wild bird with dark breast meat. And you are the Gawd Damned MAN for everything in this thread, wow. I read in one of the rags many few years ago that a hunter was storm stuck in a cabin for a few days & got soooo tired of eating the same old food, so he finally cut a chunk off of the frozen mt. lion he had shot and said it tasted amazingly great, so everyone who is saying mt. lion is supposed to be tasty really knows their stuff. Question for you guys, tho, as I've never gotten close to a coyote: What do they stink like? My best guess is maybe wet dog? |
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Originally Posted By Scrap5000:
Question for you guys, tho, as I've never gotten close to a coyote: What do they stink like? My best guess is maybe wet dog? Not every coyote really stinks, but for the ones that do, it would be nice if they stunk like wet dog. Mostly they stink like urine and dirt and carcass. It's a pungent kind of odor; the kind you can get used to but never enjoy. |
Can I hunt it? No? Not interested.
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With a coyote and a bobcat down my gullet, it just didn't seem fair to leave a fox out of the mix, so today I am proud to bring you Fox Lunch!
I whacked a fairly big male fox this morning with my trusy 12ga, and decided with the recent cool temperatures it was time for a little snack. Used my new decoy that Edge sent me - a little big, but it got the job done! 
Once I got him home I strung him up and went to work skinning the little fella. Those backstraps looked so tasty! 
The first "chunk" of meat. Not much meat on a fox, as it turns out. 
I took two strips from the backstrap and one from the front shoulder. 
When I was all done, this is what I had to eat. 
And when it was all cooked up, here's my well-balanced meal! 
And of course there's a video! Watch the video of Fox Lunch! Mmmmmmm! More tasty predators! |
Can I hunt it? No? Not interested.
| Haven't had beaver tail but have had beaver. Both 2 and 4 legged but most of you know how the 2 legged is, if not too bad for you. Anyway the 4 legged type is very good. Somewhat like roast beef. BBQ'd is real good, so is stew. The key is to get all the fat off before cooking. It ruins the taste of the meat. Muskrat is dry and a bit like pheasant. |
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Rizzo, I gotta give it to ya for trying coyote!
Hey you dont know if its good until you try it right? 
Check out some of the responses I got out of this one.... http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=978402 I guess nutria isnt on top of some peoples menu! 
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Originally Posted By smokiexd45:
Check out some of the responses I got out of this one.... http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=978402 Dude . . . . awesome! You should've cleaned up the skull as a memento! Why didn't you take the head off for cooking, though? |
Can I hunt it? No? Not interested.
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Originally Posted By rizzo1318:
Originally Posted By smokiexd45:
Check out some of the responses I got out of this one.... http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=978402 Dude . . . . awesome! You should've cleaned up the skull as a memento! Why didn't you take the head off for cooking, though? Hey, if you want a skull, I could send you one. We shoot them all the time, there is a $6 or $7 per tail bounty on them because they eat up the marshland. plus they make a nice pelt and they taste delicious! I left the head and tail on just to get a laugh. I normally clean em and cook em like a rabbit. Good little critters! |
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lol awesome, we have some friends (bums) who like to show up and eat our chow all the time w/o asking.. so one day we cooked up a skillet of bobcat and didn't say anything it wasn't long before they popped in and were chowing down.... lol they liked what they thought was deer meat, never told them.... we put the carcass in their outhouse.
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wow I could not believe what I just witnessed you eat. Way to go you must have real good stomach. You Wife must really love you that you are able to cook this stuff.
Tag for more fun filled eating. May be you should get together with that crazy dude Andrew Zimmern I think he could learn from you 
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| Last year dad and I decided to live up to the "eat what you shoot" mantra. We tried possum, squirrel, coyote and fox. I thought the fox and coyote were about the same, the flavor was not too bad and we ground about 5 pounds of coyote and had a burger feed. It was a little greasy but most of it dripped off. The next on the menu was a possum. I don't want to go into dtails too much, let's just say I will never do it again and I would rather forget I tried it. We cooked a coon in the pressure cooker and it came out as greasy as it went in. The flavor was strong but not unpleasant. I eat pigeon all the time. I shoot them for farmers in the area to keep down their numbers. Talk about a great way to open land for hunting other things. On a first trip to a farm 5 of us killed 45 pigeons in less than an hour and the farmer was a trip! He was climbing silos and banging shed walls and he had a blast! The guy was about 70 and he climbed silo ladders like a teenager. |
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Originally Posted By Clarinath:
Last year dad and I decided to live up to the "eat what you shoot" mantra. We tried possum, squirrel, coyote and fox. I thought the fox and coyote were about the same, the flavor was not too bad and we ground about 5 pounds of coyote and had a burger feed. It was a little greasy but most of it dripped off. The next on the menu was a possum. I don't want to go into dtails too much, let's just say I will never do it again and I would rather forget I tried it. We cooked a coon in the pressure cooker and it came out as greasy as it went in. The flavor was strong but not unpleasant. I eat pigeon all the time. I shoot them for farmers in the area to keep down their numbers. Talk about a great way to open land for hunting other things. On a first trip to a farm 5 of us killed 45 pigeons in less than an hour and the farmer was a trip! He was climbing silos and banging shed walls and he had a blast! The guy was about 70 and he climbed silo ladders like a teenager. The key to 'coon, 'possum, beaver and most any other wild game that is fatty is to remove the fat as much as possible. When needed cook on a rack. The grease has a tendency to get a bit rancid tasting when cooking and ruins the taste. The same way for goat and bear. |
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Those videos got all screwed up when Photobucket changed to a new format, but fear not! The videos are up and running again and the links work just fine now.
Here's some descriptions for you, Tao. Coyote - smelled like dog urine when I was cooking it, but eating it was less painful than I had expected. Very dark, very dry, very tough meat - it was like chewing rubber. Taste was not horrible, but far from great. I wouldn't eat it again if I had any other options, such as grubs or shoe leather. Bobcat - excellent all around. White and tender meat, very juicy and subtle but good flavor. I have eaten bobcat about a half-dozen times since this video was made. My favorite way to cook it is over a campfire in a skillet with butter and garlic cloves. I have also eaten mountain lion and found it to be similarly delectable. Fox - dark meat, fairly tough, but stayed pretty juicy. Taste was very similar to a breaded venison type of taste, except a little more tart. It was certainly much more edible than coyote, and I would eat it again if necessary but it wouldn't be my first choice, especially since fox are very prone to carrying rabies. Final verdict: Cat = tasty / Dog = gnarly |
Can I hunt it? No? Not interested.
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Hahaha, Rizzo, watching your videos was fun man, my hat off to you borther.
Here's my last "youhavetobeaverydementedmantoeatthat" feast down in South America. Yes, Dillo. 
And no, these particular kind of dillos DO NOT carry leprosy, and not only that, but they taste GREAT! Back to the predator subject, I know that there may not be a lot of gators where you live, but if you ever come across one while hunting, bag it, cook it and eat it.....you can thank me later as they kind of taste like frog....................kind of.
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Originally Posted By HUNTER223:
Back to the predator subject, I know that there may not be a lot of gators where you live, but if you ever come across one while hunting, bag it, cook it and eat it.....you can thank me later as they kind of taste like frog....................kind of.
HTR. Dillo?! Awesome! What did it taste like - please don't say 'chicken'.
And yeah, there's not many gators in AZ, but I actually have had gator tail. There's a restaurant in my town that serves exotic meats and I had the gator tail one night. It was very tender and juicy. |
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Originally Posted By rizzo1318:
Originally Posted By HUNTER223:
Back to the predator subject, I know that there may not be a lot of gators where you live, but if you ever come across one while hunting, bag it, cook it and eat it.....you can thank me later as they kind of taste like frog....................kind of.
HTR. Dillo?! Awesome! What did it taste like - please don't say 'chicken'.
And yeah, there's not many gators in AZ, but I actually have had gator tail. There's a restaurant in my town that serves exotic meats and I had the gator tail one night. It was very tender and juicy. It actually tasted like baby pork (ask me how I know what baby pork tastes like ). Very, very good, greasy, juicy and tender. As only seasoning I used some lemon juice and some salt.
Someone up on this thread said he'd had some beaver before? Well I see his beaver and raise him a capibara! 
Capibara fingers with lots of ketchup. HTR. |
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| Was the capibara that bad that you needed a "lot" ketchup or just b/c you really like a lot of ketchup? Beaver is especially good done up with your choice of BBQ sauce. Not that it tastes bad b/c it is similar to roast beef. That capibara meat looks like a lean pork. |
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Originally Posted By river_rat:
Was the capibara that bad that you needed a "lot" ketchup or just b/c you really like a lot of ketchup? Beaver is especially good done up with your choice of BBQ sauce. Not that it tastes bad b/c it is similar to roast beef. That capibara meat looks like a lean pork. Not at all! I'm just a dressing whore As long as you know how to clean the meat, capibara is awesome and cholesterol free!
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Si alguna vez las armas estan fuera de la ley, solo los que esten fuera de la ley tendran armas