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Anyone ever shot these? What head would you use? Anyone eat these things???
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Shot at but never hit one.
Use your regular deer broadhead.
Cook them like groundhogs.
Nasty yellow incisors.
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Our club had Nitria hunts for years here. But the government has spent millions on getting rid of them in our state. But, Larry is right use regular broadheads. I like to boil them with a little sage, then pull the meat like pulled pork. Then I make Barbeque with it using Barbeque sauce and a liitle brown sugar. Your family and friends will think they are eating Pork barbeque.
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Yeah, they must be real bad up Maryland way, got a friend with a place up on DelMarVa and the nutria have literally eaten up his duck marsh
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Nutria? Wasn't that the stuff George Costanza's cheap hat was made of on Seinfeld. He thought he was buying sable, but it ended up being nutria. Hello, Newman..........
MacGilla
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Looks like a Musk-Rat from the Pic I just looked up.
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Originally posted by Brian McIntyre:
Nutria? Wasn't that the stuff George Costanza's cheap hat was made of on Seinfeld. He thought he was buying sable, but it ended up being nutria. Hello, Newman..........
MacGilla
I think you are right! Big difference between sable and nutria!! Poor George!!! :D
We have a BIG nutria problem here as well! They are nothing more than GIANT RATS as far as I'm concerned, landowners encourage their demise!!
Never ate one but it sounds like they cook up pretty good, might have to try it sometime!!
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I had customers from Louisiana that swore they taste like pot roast if done right. I never have drank enough to try one...LOL. I would try it once. They have a bounty on them in LA also. Did anyone see that episode of Insomniac where Dave Attell was driving around shooting them with the NOPD sniper team?
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They were originaly brought into LA for meat(human consumption)...google it. I think the family that did it are still hated to this day.
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I never been drunk enough to eat one either, they look like a cross between a beaver and a rat.
I heard they are good though.
I call em "Targets"
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Out here in Yew country - we call 'em rat-tailed-beavers. They graze on grass and I have waked up and kicked 'em. They may be good eaten but I've never met any body who ate one and lived LOL. I think I'd use a good small grame head.
fletch
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I've never ate one either...but, I did see the show where the sniper team was shootin' em'. Just driving around New Orleans; wearin' em' out with a 22 rifle. And I agree with the other guys...nothin' but a big rat!
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I've eaten Nutria several times-It was EXCELLENT.
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Being from South Louisiana, I have hunted and eaten them. Taste pretty good once you get past the fact that you're eatin an oversize rat. Some years ago there was a big push to create a market for them in restraunts. I don't think it ever took off. Best advice I can give is not to let your dog corner one in the marsh while duck hunting. They can mess a dog up with their teeth.
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Nutria are very clean aquatic animals. LOTS CLEANER THAN PIGS. Once you get past the fact that you are eating a rodent, one that looks like a huge rat, they are quite tasty. Most nutria that people see in So. Louisiana are dead and rotting on the side of the road from being hit by cars. This tends to make people feel that they are gross nasty animals and not fit for human consumption. Nothiong could be further fronm the truth. However, just like deer, a a lot has to do with how you handle the meat after the kill.
The attempt to create a market for them was by Paul Prudhomme of New Orleans restruant fame. The guy that made blackend red fish a choice dish to the point the they were almost fished out into extinction. Unlike the red fish, the nutria never really caught on. My X-Father-in-law was a trapper in So Louisiana. Nutria was a prized fur that made a softer, prettier coat than mink did. There was nothing cheap about nutria products. With the decline of the fur industry, the trapping died off and the only thing keeping the nutria in check in Louisiana are the gators, and they can only eat so much. So. Louisuan is loosing hundreds of square miles a year of marshland because trhe nutria are eating up all the vegitation and there is nothing to keep the marsh from being washed away. A real ecological nightmare.
So if you want to help save So. Louisiana, go down there and eat a nutria. Every little bit helps.
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Well I have to disagree , Ive tasted it before and its not for me , I even ate some made into sausage...I didnt like it or the smell. LSU AG depth has tried to push this also...If i were stranded on Island , I might eat it...But not unless I ran out of fish! LOL...IM sure they might be ok , for some , not me...Paul Prudhomme could make a 2x4 tasty LOL...and if you ever ate Paul's Blacken Red Fish you would think ur in heaven!! as for the Rodent ...hell aligators wont eat em!!! Marco#78
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French rule reconizes nutria as a destructive non-native animal.
They are very destructive to vegitation in the areas they live.
Streams and river banks are also dammaged by these large rodents
So, if you get permission to hunt on private property you can chase them all year round (but you need a valid license and you can’t hunt them at night)
Some French bowhunters spend a lot of time chasing them.
:) “Spot and stalk” method works well with nutrias.
They usually move primarily in early AM and evening and night; nevertheless you can see them in the daytime too.
Some pics of nutria bowhunting ...
(http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/maxence101/42.jpg)
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... (http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/maxence101/43.jpg)
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On a private pond... (http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/maxence101/Un/FH000012_edited.jpg)
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A cute baby.
Young nutrias are often heedless of danger.
Only 15-20 percent of them survive the first winter. (http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/maxence101/Un/71.jpg)
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Summer harvest with a Thunderstick III. (http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/maxence101/Un/DSCF0027.jpg)
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Floods are a good opportunity for shooting some rodents. (http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/maxence101/during20the20floodsforum.jpg)
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Posting later
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I was born and raides in South La. and have killed my share of them. I've eaten alot of things, but as far as a nutria....I aint never been that hungry!
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Swamp rats are also totally confused when a pond is frozen.
This makes them easy prey to foxes (the young ones) (http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/maxence101/The20same20weekend.jpg)
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Originally posted by ethan:
I was born and raides in South La. and have killed my share of them. I've eaten alot of things, but as far as a nutria....I aint never been that hungry!
I seldom at one.
An adult weighs approximately 17 lb, it makes quickly too much meat when you shoot them all around the year.
Besides, in Summer, it’s illegal to transport nutrias and muskrats and you have to bury them (to reduce the risk of infectious diseases propagation: leptospirosis)
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They are still a problem to the Rice farmers in S.E> coastal Texas too they will ruin a set of field leves on a night .Like the ole boy sain in that movie "look bad,,, taste worse. "
David out
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they have a few that live in the drainage dith in the woods behind my house, shot at them a couple times with a .22 but never tried to eat one
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I don't take dogs for nutria hunting (it happened during a pheasant hunting)
Nutria bites can cause serious wounds to dogs.
This day,my female labrador has been severely bitten repeatedly and the wounds were very deep. :(
(http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/maxence101/Nutria-dogs20fight-1.jpg)
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Killed lots of them. Never ate one. They are a destructive terrible nuisance.
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Closer,closer,closer ... :archer: (http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/maxence101/pretty20kid-1.jpg)
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if ya dont put such big hole in them when ya shoot them, you could skin and stretch them out and send to the NAFA. Their fur is rather pretty, and use to be ranched for the fur market.
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So where do we sign up to go eradi-nutria-cating? Sure looks like fun....
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eaten one, ti could have been prepared better. i also cut the backstrap out of a beaver. very very good fried.
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I don't know... looks like it'd be pretty tasty! :) I haven't eaten a bad beaver and imagine these critters would be similar.
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Hmm. I wish I'd taken advantage of hunting opportunities for these buggers when I lived on Delmarva.
But I saw one a couple weeks ago near the in-laws' place (Great Dismal Swamp, NC). I guess that means I gotta try one.
Can you grill them on low heat, or is it boil-and-barbecue only?
-Charlie
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Man, i thought you guys were joking about eating them. Now I'm getting curious. Think I'll make a nutria tooth necklace now.
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My hunting partner, James Hayes and I arrowed literally boatloads of them down along the Texas coast and the Intercoastal Canal back in the '50's and early 60's. Sold most to a mink farm for 25 cents each, to be ground up for mink food. Always use well sharpened broadheads on them; they are fairly large and really tough. Use big, wide-cut broadheads; we used the Deadheads and the Goshawks. NEVER use green-colored shafts; for some reason they love to bite through green shafts. And, yes, they are pretty good eat'n too!
Ed
TGMM Family of the Bow
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I'm new to hunting and thought this too was a joke- but is there nothing hunters don't eat? LOL
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(http://www.nutria.com/images/nutria_ll.gif)
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Frenchy,
Thanks for posting pictures! I work on a nutria control/eradication program in Maryland USA. Its really neat to see the kinds of habitat they live in around the world.
Steve
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despite alot of people saying people in new orleans will eat anything most people wouldn't touch them down here.
For one thing their fur carries some sort of parasite. I forget what it is but it causes a red rash and you need ointment.
There are people here that won't eat white trout. Only speckled. Thats how spoiled we are. The things crawling in our drainage ditches don't look appealing.
On the plus side they are destroying the enviorment so don't feel bad about shooting them. If you get a trappers license they'll pay you for tails.
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Is that were they get Nutra Sweet from?
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Originally posted by Steve Kendrot:
Frenchy,
Thanks for posting pictures! I work on a nutria control/eradication program in Maryland USA. Its really neat to see the kinds of habitat they live in around the world.
Steve
My pleasure :)
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Originally posted by Swamp Pygmy:
For one thing their fur carries some sort of parasite. I forget what it is but it causes a red rash and you need ointment.
It's amazing.
We haven't got this kind of problems here.
I never heard of that indeed
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I believe it. Here in Louisiana our waters (the still ones) are full of parasites. You wouldn't go swimming to say the least. When you catch a bass they usually have a few parasites of one form or another on them. Leeches, or centipede lookin things in their mouth, little clear disk shaped blood suckers.
I remember reading about (I think) ring worm or round worm larvae on the fur and it gets into your skin. Doesn't do anything but does cause a rash though. Where its colder I'm sure there are much less problems with them.
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Originally posted by Swamp Pygmy:
There are people here that won't eat white trout. Only speckled. Thats how spoiled we are. The things crawling in our drainage ditches don't look appealing.
please - you folks eat crayfish and charge a fortune for them! :)
Lucky for us in the north, I don't think they'd like our winters. What DO they do in the winter?
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I could wear them out here in TX if it weren't illegal to shoot them from a boat. The swim right up to boat while we are bowfishing. They are considered a fur bearer and protected by those laws despite the damage they do.
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Nutra is alright but not my favorite to eat. They will destroy a levee or bank really quick. They have to eat because there teeth will continue to grow unless they are grinded down just like a beaver. I believe the DWF was paying $4.00 per tail. Shoot them all because there really good for nothing.
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We have a ton of them in NC, they destroy the dikes around our duck impoundments and our field paths. Carrying a 22 rifle is standard issue for us while working. As for eating them the best recipe I've heard is to skin the critter, stuff it with horse manure and bake on 350 for four (4) hours. Then scoop out the horse manure, serve it and throw the nutria away.
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like our winters. What DO they do in the winter? [/QB]
Hard Winters are deadly for most of them
Nutrias suffer frostbits on their paws and that kills them by infection.
I often saw nutrias’ tail with partial amputation; that's the result of long periods of freezing.
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Originally posted by bbassi:
. What DO they do in the winter? [/b]
Make more Nutrias... :knothead: