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Post by raf on Jan 27, 2009 22:00:11 GMT -5
Thats the stuff High Mountain. We like it, just had a presenior moment and morphed hi mountain to montana. An honest mistake ;)and you were close. Wyoming
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Post by dans on Jan 30, 2009 8:57:20 GMT -5
One year while my kids were still home the deer season didn't go well we had to buy hamburger from the store. After the first bite, I got some strange looks and "What is this?" comments from them. I was raised on wild game and fish and so were my kids. We still relish everything we harvest from the great outdoors. Oh and my grandkids too. My daughter has 5 kids and they ate a deer in week. I don't know if that is a record or not but it was a pretty good effort.
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Post by dans on Jan 31, 2009 12:39:50 GMT -5
Dog gone it Ozark if you would have added some grits to the menu I would have been tempted to fire up the old Chevy truck and drive to Arkansas just to join you for breakfast. That's the kind of breakfast my momma used to make.
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Post by Buckrub on Feb 11, 2009 14:40:44 GMT -5
Youp, that's good stuff ain't it? I like it 100X better than 'solid meat' jerky! But I quit trying to use my dehdryator......that thing takes forever and is always uneven. I use a smoker or just the oven.
I process my own deer backstraps, and have a butcher grind the rest.....NO beef fat added. I see no reason to pay for it when every deer I grind up and fry leaves a ton of fat/grease to drain off without it! I use that 'burger' for everything that takes ground meat -----tacos, spaghetti, mexican casserole, meatloaf, whatever----but not actual hamburgers....too lean.
Most everyone knows how to flour and slow fry venison backstrap. I won't go into that.
But one new way I learned is to take the backstrap and cut into small bite size pieces. Tenderize each piece. Wrap in a cut up piece of bacon and stick with a toothpick. This takes time and is tedious, I know, sorry. Marinate in a covered dish of Italian Dressing for a few hours in the refrigerator. Take out and grill.
Oh my.
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Post by honestken on Feb 13, 2009 18:48:46 GMT -5
This is always a fun forum for me.
It's great to try other peoples recipes.
Do we eat what we shoot?
Well, when my daughter was 5 or 6 years old (she's 15 now) we were having pork chops for dinner and she asked me "What kind of meat is this".
I said "Pork".
She asked "What kind of animal does it come from".
I said "Pigs".
She said "Oooohhh gross Dad, can't we have something good, like deer!"
That's my girl!!!
Ken
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Post by huntingmike on Mar 5, 2009 16:18:45 GMT -5
I marinate slices of back strap in Zesty Italian salad dressing (any sliced cut will work). Grill it on high heat for say eight minutes longer if the slices are thick. It is great.
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Post by herman on Mar 12, 2009 7:35:02 GMT -5
This is my favorite for bear or deer. Take and cut it in chunks,wrap a strip of bacon around it holding it on with a tooth pick.Marinate for a couple days in the frig in a mixture of italian dressing and sone powdered muster to taste. Grill or cook in oven untill it is done as you like. Bet you can't eat just ONE.
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Post by chuck41 on Jun 16, 2009 10:41:14 GMT -5
Many years ago an uncle taught me, "If you ain't gonna eat it, don't shoot it." I'm not sure he meant that for skunk, but he sure did for a lot of other of the less favored cuts. We learned to enjoy a variety of game. Squirrel, rabbit, dove, quail, and duck were regular fare. I also remember eating raccoon (delicious), cormorant (awful), and a lot of other stuff that I really didn't plan on, until his rule was brought up. Fortunately I was smart enough not to shoot an armadillo in his presence, nor possum or 'yote. Anybody want a recipe for blue jay and meadow lark? (They were stringy and tasteless).
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Post by raf on Jun 16, 2009 15:04:53 GMT -5
Chuck, that's the advise I gave my son when he started hunting. I qualified it though that varmints don't count
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Post by wilmsmeyer on Jun 17, 2009 3:12:43 GMT -5
I would add that if you hit a varmint (woodchuck, red squirrel, chipmunck etc) with enough horsepower the discussion on whether to eat them is easily settled.
Example: Body shot woodchuck with 10ML using jacketed bullets and MV of 2700 fps. Nope...nuthin' left! ;D
I think the overall logic of eating all the game you kill is good though.....just that there are exceptions.
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Post by raf on Jun 17, 2009 16:27:00 GMT -5
I would add that if you hit a varmint (woodchuck, red squirrel, chipmunck etc) with enough horsepower the discussion on whether to eat them is easily settled. Yup. My 22-250 with a 40 grain V-Max at abou 4000 FPS turns gophers into red mist . No wood chucks around here to try it on, so would have to guess.
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Post by ozark on Jun 17, 2009 19:52:40 GMT -5
Woodchucks are called ground hogs around here. While growing up we would eat them when they first came out after hybernation. After they begin eating vegitation they have what we called a weedy taste and we didn't eat them. As vegitarians I see noting revolting about them. Much cleaner than a hog or chicken. BTW sometimes they climb trees. We have had dogs tree them up trees several times. Ozark
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Post by wilmsmeyer on Jun 18, 2009 5:17:42 GMT -5
I've shot them out of trees. Usually a tree that has tipped over and they craw up and into the stiffer branches and "hang out" Also have seen them and shot them while perched on top of fenceposts. They are actually in the squirrel family....go figure.
I tried eating one as a teenage. I carved out a ham and seared it in veg oil. No prep or thought went into it and the result proved it. Never tried it again but I have ate some beaver. Why did you chuckle? My Dad's helper was a trapper and he would take the meat and crock pot it with vegetables. Absolutely would have passed for roast beef.
If a beaver could taste good, a head shot would chuck shouldn't be any worse IMO.
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Post by edge on Jun 18, 2009 8:38:44 GMT -5
No chuckling here, just not many folks admit to eating beaver ;D I will be waiting for your report on wood chuck....I'll believe you unless you say that it tastes like chicken edge.
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Post by ozark on Jun 18, 2009 10:31:33 GMT -5
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck and would chuck wood? ANSWER: A woodchuck coulld chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck and would chuck wood.
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Post by edge on Jun 18, 2009 11:18:48 GMT -5
Ozark, that reminds me of a trip that I took a long time ago. As I was passing through Arkansas I saw a saw that could out-saw any saw I ever saw....if you are ever passing through Arkansas and see a saw that can out-saw the saw I saw saw, I would like to see the saw you saw saw edge.
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Post by ozark on Jun 18, 2009 15:38:44 GMT -5
edge, I was going to cash it in thinking I had heard everything. You saved my life, I had never heard about that saw. Good one. We used to have a seesaw in arkansas on our playground.
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Post by raf on Jun 18, 2009 16:12:49 GMT -5
Back to eating beaver, my father tried it once while up north moose hunting. They met a trapper who invited them into his cabin and his wife was preparing supper. When my father first saw it, he thought it was a goose. He said it was quite tasty. Don't think he said it tasted like chicken , and don't remember what he said it tasted like or if he did. But, he said it was good. Knowing my father, he might not have tried it if he'd known what it was before he had some.
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Post by chuck41 on Jun 18, 2009 22:20:41 GMT -5
I have a redneck friend down the road that used to do quite a bit of trapping. He never said anything about eating skunk, mink, or muskrat, but he and all his kids swear that beaver is as good a meat as you can find. Wild game was about the only meat they ever had and they had a bunch of it so I would kinda consider them to be experts on the subject.
We don't have very many woodchucks around here. I have seen them in the northern half of the state, but not so much around here. So far I have never seen one around the deer camp about 70 miles south of here. However, we have our fair share of skunks, possums, and raccoons.
I shot a ground squirrel with a .35 Rem a number of years ago. There was not much left and what was there was "pre-field-dressed".
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