WWII Raccoons (LOL)...

[Hawklore]

Originally posted by Toad
BBQ raccoon is pretty good; a little greasy but great with beer. It's a real white meat with a high fat content.

Seriously?

I've never tried it, I never would, after knowing how stinky their **** is...

[capt. apathy]

never could eat it.  too greasy and looks a bit like a fat cat when skinned out.  I never could even bring my self to taste it.

IIRC we used to get about $.25 a pound for the meat as a kid.  after taking the hides we'd gut them and put them in the freezer.  a friend new a guy who would buy them all.  I don't know if he ate that much of it or sold it to some one else.  

it wasn't worth much compared to the pelt, but a couple extra bucks always came in handy.

[Hawklore]

I'd never do something like that for money, maybe if it depended on my life like it did back then in your times..

[DieAz]

Originally posted by Toad
BBQ raccoon is pretty good; a little greasy but great with beer. It's a real white meat with a high fat content.

oh man, you got that right.  good eating.
skin and gut it, leave fat on it.
let fat drip, and flame up.
fat layer turns to black burnt fat.
when ya cut it open, peel the black burnt fat off, the meat is real nice and juicy.

Thanks alot Toad, now I is hungry.  

[DieAz]

Originally posted by capt. apathy
never could eat it.  too greasy and looks a bit like a fat cat when skinned out.  I never could even bring my self to taste it.
 

man , you have no idea, what you are missing out on.

[capt. apathy]

Originally posted by Hawklore
I'd never do something like that for money, maybe if it depended on my life like it did back then in your times..

how old are you?

check back in when you're 40 and tell me what you'd do for money.

actually hunting raccoons was done mostly for the fun of it, the $$ was just a bonus, and would have likely been a loss if I'd had to pay for my own hounds.

as a teenager I ran a few traps for cash, threw a lot of damn hay-bales on a truck, and even green-broke a few horses for neighbors and people who boarded them at the stable near my house (breaking horses would have also been a loss if I'd had to pay my own med bills.  some times they break you).

in my adult life, among other less glamorous jobs, I've thrown drunks out of bars, repaired ships and built and repaired boilers.  I've been set on fire, worked hundreds of feet off the ground in all weather, electrocuted myself while welding in the rain more times than I can count, climbed the boom of a crane 270' up (to re-install a pin that was coming loose), crawled through the furnaces in a paper mill, and many worse things that I've likely blocked out to protect my sanity.

looking back over it all, chasing a bawling hound through the woods of Missouri on a cold night, so I can skin a few raccoons was probably one of the best (and definitely the funnest) 'jobs' I've ever had in my life.

[Lizking]

From my mis-spent youth:





They aren't bad, but I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to eat them.

[cpxxx]

No Raccoons in Europe. Not a one.  Maybe he meant Grey Squirrels. Those pests were imported from America and are everywhere.  There is a serious campaign to hunt them all down and eliminate them all before they wipe out the native Red Squirrel.  Otherwise the story is funny.

[Reschke]

The best thing for killing squirrels is to shoot the little buggers with whatever weapon you happen to have around.

Funny story one time my Dad shot one with my recurve bow that was in our pecan tree. The squirrel jumped out and headed for the wood pile. Well needless to say he made it but couldn't get into the hole since the arrow was sticking out each side of his body through his lungs. Fortunately he died before I as a young stupid boy ran up and grabbed him.

BUT DAMN those squirrel dumplings in gravy with big plump home made biscuts, black eye peas, turnip greens (can't eat those now; I hate 'em) and pecan pie was freakin' AMAZING! Man I need to go see mom and grandmom and get them to cook a few for me once again.

[DieAz]

Originally posted by Reschke

BUT DAMN those squirrel dumplings in gravy with big plump home made biscuts, black eye peas, turnip greens (can't eat those now; I hate 'em) and pecan pie was freakin' AMAZING! Man I need to go see mom and grandmom and get them to cook a few for me once again.

dang your hide, ya making me drool.

[rogwar]

Originally posted by DieAz
dang your hide, ya making me drool.

Me to! Squirrel is my favorite game meat....

When I see them around the house or in the park I get hunger pains.

[DieAz]

Originally posted by Lizking
From my mis-spent youth:

They aren't bad, but I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to eat them.

Lizking, theres not anywheres near enough fat on those in the pics.
you want to catch them, when they fat as pigs. with at least 1/2 inch layer of fat all around. leave fat on while they cooking. they come out a whole lot better eating.

[Lizking]

That is actually a rabbit (the skinned one), I wanted to see if anyone could tell.

Sadly, those two 'coons were killed simply because they were in our camp, although we did eat them, and the guy on the right tanned them out.

[Airhead]

Originally posted by cpxxx
No Raccoons in Europe. Not a one.  Maybe he meant Grey Squirrels. Those pests were imported from America and are everywhere.  There is a serious campaign to hunt them all down and eliminate them all before they wipe out the native Red Squirrel.  Otherwise the story is funny.

The American grey squirrel is at the top of the food chain in Britain; not only are they wiping out the native red squirrel population, but they've begun eating meat and now attack dogs and cats. It's only a matter of time before they grow so bold they begin attacking people too...there's really nothing the Brits can do to stop them, since ther Gov't took everybody's guns away.

[Toad]

Only in their cities, Air.

Even in England the country boys can survive.