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Offline Longhunter

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« Reply #30 on: February 19, 2009, 02:04:47 AM »
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People who eat processed meat from Kroger's etc. turn up their noses at the kind of tablefare us older country dudes enjoyed. I sure miss a lot of those old times.

I hear ya Joe...some folks don't know whats good for em.  :rotf

I like this qoute, "I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables"

Having said that, I always have room for vegetables on my plate....right next to that big ole hunk a meat.... :rotf
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« Reply #31 on: March 26, 2009, 05:52:49 PM »
never had a possum..and never even seen armadillo..but i've had most of the other game you fellows have mentioned...beaver, muskrat, squirrel and raccoon.  Never had elk or moose come to think of it. Bear though..yes..might be worth remembering that in the Colonial days, 'bar" meat was valued higher than that of deer.
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« Reply #32 on: March 27, 2009, 10:27:28 AM »
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.......Did ya ever notice how pale vegetarians are?.......  :lol:
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« Reply #33 on: March 27, 2009, 07:06:03 PM »
I had a Coon as a pet for thirteen years,got her before her eye's where open and raised her with the other critters in the house. One of the best friends I've had. Never caged her and would use a leash only in town. Don't think I could eat one.
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« Reply #34 on: April 14, 2009, 07:53:28 AM »
There was a time in a country far,far away that I ate things
that would gag a maggot.But,I draw the line at opossum.It is
from a childhood experience.
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« Reply #35 on: April 14, 2009, 07:59:15 AM »
When we were in Iquitos, Peru for 3 weeks, we had to live off the local economy.  One of our favorite restuarants was a Korean place...the menu was written on a big chalk board...None of us spoke the language, so we just pointed at a number and ordered that way...


Not really sure what I ate there but it was very good...and kinda odd hearing Spanish spoken with a Korean accent.
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« Reply #36 on: April 14, 2009, 04:23:01 PM »
Like Russ and others it's been a long time since I've had coon or wood chuck. Another meat that makes a good stew is muskrat. We ate alot of Rat as my father made us use allm the meat off the trapline. I never thought coon to be all that bad smelling unless it was a real old boar.One of my favorites was woodchuck liver deep fried.
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« Reply #37 on: April 15, 2009, 08:46:10 PM »
RE: Meat from animals with neural diseases.  I have a buddy who is a county extension agent, he tells me to stay shy of brain and nerve tissue, cook the meat well and you'll be fine.  He's fond of the use of hot water and soap, too.  

It seems to be the Red Blooded Macho Hunter raw meat eater types who contract these ailments while us woosie surgical glove and soap types don't.

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« Reply #38 on: April 16, 2009, 12:32:24 AM »
Since it's been warmin up a little lately the ground grizzles (wood chucks) have been out. I'm thinkin about gettin Ole Fancy Pants, my .54 flinter down off the pegs and take her out after the makins for a good stew.

Did I ever tell you about the time me and a buddy went on a weekend scout with a couple other guys. We set up our two camps across from each other. I got a woodchuck right off the bat and I had brought the fixins for a stew...potatoes, carrots and onions. I had a big cast iron kettle and I got the stew started on our fire. Then my bud and I went back out huntin. When we got back in camp the other two guys had shot a coon and had it skinned and ready for their fire.

Our stew got done first so we invited them to try some. They said, "no thanks, we'll wait till our stew is done"

My buddy and I ate on that woodchuck stew all weekend and every time we ask the other guys to try it they refused. When it came time to pack up and go home I dumped out the last of the woodchuck stew in our kettle. Out dropped a  big hind foot of the other guys coon...complete with hair, hide and toenails.    :rotf
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« Reply #39 on: April 16, 2009, 01:26:15 AM »
With friends like that, who needs enemies!!!  :Doh!
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« Reply #40 on: April 16, 2009, 06:17:22 AM »
Yep it's always good to remember that someone will get there evens.
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« Reply #41 on: April 16, 2009, 08:49:40 AM »
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Yep it's always good to remember that someone will get there evens.

" I don't get mad, I get even"

" Paybacks are Hell"...:lol:
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« Reply #42 on: September 19, 2014, 07:59:58 PM »
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I have never eaten anything like that.  Stupid question, but I have to ask. What about rabies?
You are kidding or from the city. Rabies can be caught in any mammal.

By the way my son and I are trappers and he has an animal control licensed business. We have Rabies vaccines do to his business.

We do not eat any type of animal that "acts strange".
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