Wild Food Shopping

[MsGoGoMoto]

Since squirrel hunting season started last week, we've harvested 7 from the yard with my Benjamin Break Action single load Air Rifle. .22 for distance. Head shot and flips.
Easy skinning and vacuum seal storage loaded with garlic, seasoning, bay leaf.

Made a peanut feeder with a hinged access door on top and a nice pretty little ledge for them to rest on and eat while I line up the shot.

Husband broke out his compound bow and getting ready for big game deer season.
I'll leave the processing to him as I don't want to gut something that big.

The only big game I hunt is turkey. Georgia reduced the bag limit for turkey from 3 to 2 per season so I might go for rabbit and waterfowl later this year.

We tried hunting hog last year.. still got meat in the freezer.
Wild hog meat gets dry as hell if you cook it too fast.

Hunters in the forum?

[cmyx6go]

It’s wabbit season
It’s duck season
Wabbit
Duck

Squirrels? My family has property up in the boonies of PA. The locals would have what we called a beast feast. I call it road kill and don’t eat anything at their parties. Venison is one thing, but squirrels, possum and raccoons? No thank you.

I keep thinking of granny on the Beverly Hillbillies

[Dpc2u]

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[Esteban]

Then one day he was shootin at some food, and up through the ground came a bubblin crude.

Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

[Dpc2u]

[TiMSport]

Squirrels? Hell no.

[shoei]

1. There's not enough meat on their bones
2. It's squirrels. Have a few around the house - they come take cashews and almonds out of your hands.
3. No. Just, no. Not even possum. Or raccoons!!! I don't wanna hear - "tastes like chicken" either!!!

[MsGoGoMoto]

Originally Posted by shoei

1. There's not enough meat on their bones
2. It's squirrels. Have a few around the house - they come take cashews and almonds out of your hands.
3. No. Just, no. Not even possum. Or raccoons!!! I don't wanna hear - "tastes like chicken" either!!!

Possums and raccoons are off the menu here as well.
I almost drew the limit on squirrels, but I tried and liked it. Since there were so many hanging around.

Free food

We get turkey and deer strolling through the yard.

Food walking around all over the place.

[shoei]

Originally Posted by MsGoGoMoto

Possums and raccoons are off the menu here as well.
I almost drew the limit on squirrels, but I tried and liked it. Since there were so many hanging around.

Free food

We get turkey and deer strolling through the yard.

Food walking around all over the place.

Turkey are fugly and we all fucks with leftover thanksgiving sandwiches. Deer, venison, quail, Daffy, have at it.

But I mean, look at this lil fucker!!! You need to eat a shit ton of them to get full and I'm warning you, they smart and vindictive as fuck.

Look at him tho!!

[Buug959]

I love having squirrels around. They're entertaining as hell. I built them a little picnic table where I keep fresh water and homemade peanut butter, just throw some peanuts in the blender and smash them to a paste. I also hide pieces of walnut around. It's great fun watching them search for them. No almonds though, there's something in almonds that's not good for the squirrels around here. One of the squirrels has decided that the water dish is a great place to keep a few pine cones. I have two that are around all the time. The male I call "Nut" and then a female showed up and after a few days she earned the name "Nutchess".

[vreihen16]

I'm pretty sure that I have posted here before about how a joke gone horribly wrong turned into a one-year gig as the food critic in a national monthly motorsports magazine 20 years ago, with the first column being about alligator nuggets in Florida (when it was supposed to be a gag column about eating crow).

The second column was from Mississippi, where the weekend's event title sponsor hosted a huge Saturday evening banquet for all competitors in their amazing corporate jet hangar. When I was out and about in town, at least three people approached me with offers of $50+ for my banquet ticket. I thought that this was odd, but soon discovered that the sponsor had hired the dixie equivalent of Chef Emeril for this banquet.

Anyway, when I got to the buffet line, I asked the server what was being served. Picture a southern drawl saying "caaaatfish" in your mind, with all of the locals suddenly staring at me for not knowing who the chef's history what his specialty was. Not eating seafood/fish at all, I responded back that "This yankee don't eat POND RAT! What are the other options?" Let's just say that I felt lucky to make it out of town alive that weekend, and have probably been banned for life from visiting the state of Mississippi ever again.

For the column that month, I wrote about the tradition of King Cake. Mardi Gras was in full swing, and they were doing the whole New Orleans thing at our welcome reception on Friday evening. Writing about these regional foods/traditions for a national audience made my column a huge success for that publication.

To this day, this yankee don't eat pond rat.....