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Posted: 11/7/2009 1:05:45 AM
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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Posted: 1/3/2010 6:03:14 AM
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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Posted: 1/3/2010 10:15:31 AM
This is the best thread since Aqua Bumping.
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Posted: 1/3/2010 10:42:34 AM
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? |
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Posted: 1/3/2010 10:43:41 AM
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Originally Posted By Timanator:
This is the best thread since Aqua Bumping. Now THAT was back in the day! 
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Posted: 1/3/2010 11:25:03 AM
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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Posted: 1/5/2010 7:38:37 AM
Porcupine is some good eating as well but they are a pain to skin. we always hung em by their back leg and split the skin at their stomach then worked our hands around the inside to peel the skin off. Then just quarter parboil then flour and fry em.
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Posted: 1/31/2010 8:57:28 PM
A foot of snow on the ground, got the rifle sighted in, and ready to go find some yotes. They gotta eat sometime.
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Posted: 6/25/2010 11:46:50 PM
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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Posted: 6/26/2010 3:06:21 AM
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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Posted: 11/26/2010 11:38:40 AM
You're a crazy bastard Rizzo.
Keep it up. |
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Posted: 11/27/2010 7:47:02 PM
Rizzo you are the man. Awesome thread.
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Posted: 12/14/2010 12:14:54 AM
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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Posted: 1/9/2011 1:33:53 AM
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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Posted: 1/19/2011 4:09:02 AM
I read through what I thought were the highlights, but only saw a couple descriptions of what everything tasted like.
Can you run through them and give some visceral descriptions of taste, texture, etc? Oh, and whats the password to watch the videos? Thanks! |
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Posted: 1/19/2011 7:16:55 PM
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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 |
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Posted: 1/19/2011 7:39:49 PM
I'm gonna link this thread to a Zombie topic. What would you eat? Course, you're more then welcome to chime in. Seems the dudes are thinking small when it comes to food issues when everything else runs out.
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Posted: 1/19/2011 8:45:43 PM
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Posted: 1/19/2011 9:30:49 PM
Sounds like the Chinese got it right with eating cats then huh?
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Posted: 2/10/2011 3:59:33 AM
I can't wait to get a hold of some bobcat
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Posted: 2/15/2011 12:02:18 AM
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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Posted: 2/15/2011 3:26:51 PM
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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Posted: 2/16/2011 5:02:31 AM
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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Posted: 2/16/2011 12:43:24 PM
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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Posted: 2/18/2011 2:44:44 PM
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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