Hi all,
I'm from australia and new to this forum and I was just wondering what do you guys do with the animals you shoot, like I know turkey and deer are edible but what do you do with bear, mountain lions. mountain goats, coyote e.t.c. I'm not trying to criticise anyone but merely trying to broaden my understanding of bowhunting
Thanks, Matt
I think the boys all send them down south, They eat anything! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: This should be interesting to read.
We eat it...everything you mentioned (with the exception of coyotes) is very edible. The coyotes need to be controled had alot of attacks in this part of the country this year. Those carcusses usually feed the rest of mother nature.
Matt,
I have eaten bear, mountain lion and mountain goat meat from hunts. All was good when properly prepared, although the goat was a bit tough.
A local butcher shop by me used to have a smokehouse and he would take the bear hind quarters and make boneless, smoked hams. Man they were good. Other cuts made good stew meat, brats, etc. Seasoned, roasted lion was like a good pork roast.
Ray
Food and/or furs.
Food, furs, or pest control. Mostly food. About the onoly thing I won't eat are coons, possums, and coyotes.
Eat what you kill, and kill only what you eat... That is what I do. We don,t have any predators problems up here so I don't shoot them. As for the bears, I realy like the meat on the spring one!!
I eat almost all of what we shoot. Ive shot a few coyotes and had their hides tanned. I couldnt bring myself to eat one. Ive trapped a bunch of coon and fox in the past and never ate any of them but sold their hides. Down south they eat coons and possum but ive never tried them. Ive eaten turtles and frogs and muskrat and woodchuck as with almost everything its how their prepared. Ive heard mountain lion is really good which really surprises me. I just dont look at them as food i guess but would love to try it. You guys (australians) dont eat your feral pigs do you? I think I heard theres diease or something. How about those big nasty scrub bulls do they get eaten? How about those camels and donkeys? Do you guys eat them? I dont blame you guys one bit if you dont eat them their all introduced feral animals im just curious. Visiting the australian bush is one thing I have to do before I quit. An australian scrub bull bowhunt is probably higher on my want to do list than a semi-guided horseback elkhunt and thats pretty high!!!!
If I put an arrow through it I try it ,with the exception of coyote or any canine(as far as I know).Rau, coon and bear are basically the same(IMO)and the same is true with any critter,its all in the care and preperation.the fur and skins are just a bonus.
I understand predator and pest control and fully support it (even had lots of fun practicing it on my great-grandfathers farm when I was a kid). But the outdoorsmen in my family also pressed the "if you kill it, you eat it" ethic into me from the time I was small boy. And that's pretty much my practice today. There are animals I don't hunt simply because I don't like the taste (ie, duck).
I grew up in the Deep, Deep South....Southern by God's Grace, as we from "down there" like to say....and I've never eaten a coon or a possum and don't know anyone who has or does.
But, back in the day when I was a kid my grandmother would tell me of her father and grandfather who were Civil War era gents and she said that they would eat possum. She said the nastiest thing she ever saw was a baked grinning possum, stuffed with sweet potatoes, laying on a platter in a pool of its own grease. She said my great grandfather loved that dish, but her description ensured that I would never try it.
Besides, I've seen those things waddle out of a dead cow's carcass after gorging themselves. They're really more of a ground bound buzzard than any other thing that I can think of. Downright nasty.
Kk, thanks everyone, thats interesting to know
To answer rau's question, im not actually a bowhunter yet, but i am wanting to get into it and give it a try but i believe most people do not eat ferals down here as have many diseases, perhaps with the exception of feral deer
i dont eat anything that eats meat.love me a good elk backstrap though...mmmmmmmmmmmm...
I utilize everything I shoot, which, around here, are mostly deer, squirrels, rabbits, and hogs. I've shot one coyote, and his hide is going to be a quiver. His skeleton is going in a local museum.
I've eaten raccoon and opossum, but prefer other meat, so I just let them go. I enjoy watching them.
I like bear,elk,moose and deer. Mountain lion is excellent meat. Probably the best out there. Gary
QUOTE>>>>> "i believe most people do not eat ferals down here as have many diseases"
What animals specifically, and what diseases? ... I'm curious....We have Feral Hogs, Burros and Horses....I've eaten Burros and Hogs both are very good?
I eat deer, elk, and bear. I don't eat coyote and they are pests here.
I shot a large possum once that got into our front porch. They ate them on the Beverly hillbillies so I thought, why not. I got a few bucks for the hide. The possum meat was not edible because I threw-up on it, before I had a chance to cook it.
coaster, although i dont know much about it, my dad said many animals they shot when he was a kid had all sorts of worms and many where very sickly looking e.g rotting gums, rotting feet, infections, etc
I have eaten nearly everything Australia has to offer in terms of wild game and "ferals". Goat and pig if cooked properly are superb eating .
Camel and buffalo are delicious and rabbit is a mainstay food in my house .
But Sambar deer is perhaps the best meat I have eaten and will hopefully continue to eat it for years to come !
Just be sensible when dressing game as to is and what isn't suitable for consumption.
When I was in Australia we ate a young pig that we had shot but I was told that the older pigs, especially if they have been eating carcasses were not safe to eat. There were places in Australia where they were edible because of having a vegitarian diet, one place I think by McKay, was a bannana plantation the pigs were suppose to be very good eating. The Chital are excellent eating.
I don't shoot it unless I intend to eat it with the exception of Coyote which is nothing more than a nusance that needs controlling.
Why does everybody hate coyotes so much? They are just trying to get by like every other animal....every right to be on this planet as us.
I've shot 5! :D I hate it that they are smarter than me.
Everything I shoot gets eaten by someone or something.
I live in mtn goat country and have eatne a bunch of them. They always taste good but are routinely a bit tuff so burger is the norm.
Lion is about as god as meat gets, I've eaten a bunch of them too. I would kill a lion for the meat only.
Bears are hit and miss. If they have been eating fish, then they do NOT have meat, only "flesh". Meat is edible and a bear eating fish is not! The last blackie I shot was not eating fish and was excellent.
Any deer I shoot is given away to folks who can use it. I usually keep a ham and some backstrap for jerkey. The wife and kids (grown kids) won't eat it any other way.
I wiil eat just about any thing but not coyote ,ground squirrels or crow.
I don't hunt waterfoul because I won't eat them--my jerk of a brother in law kills the heck out of ducks and geese and I am almost certain he throws them in the dumpster
Wont eat no possum, but cook up several coons every year. I like the big fat ones, boiled with lots of pepper, potatoes and carrots. Never ate a coyote, and never plan to.
I think its funny when people judge the way an animal will taste by what it eats . . .
Here in MD our prized possession is the blue crab! For those of you that don't know they are the little guys attached to the dead body when it gets pulled up outta the water in all the cop shows!
I have eaten both possums and coons, but only the legs! You can fry them suckers up like drumbsticks.
I'm a trapper and I find it hard to not try and eat somethin ya find dead in a trap.
That said, I haven't tried to trap foxes or yotes in depth, but this year I will. And I just can't get myself talked into eating a canine!!
I'll try anything once, its all about the way its fixed!
We eat a lot of it. I do take a deer or two for family and friends.
When it comes to bowhunting, I can't remember killing something that I didn't eat... except since about my early teens when I used to shoot pretty well any wild thing that moved including mice, crows, snakes and bugs.
Chris, what an animal eats has a definite effect on what the meat tastes like. Black bear is a prime example. In Alaska, spring bears that are feeding on fresh vegetation are superb eating. Those that are taken in the fall, after gorging on salmon, have a very distinct fishy taste. It's not very pleasant. In fact, in Alaska, you are required by law to salvage all of the meat of a spring bear. You don't for a fall bear.
The same goes for ducks and geese. Ducks that have been feeding on grains are much better tasting than those that have been feeding in salty marshlands.
i'd eat anything except for the coyote. definitely keep the fur though and find a use for it somehow.
i have yet to eat anything but deer that my old man used to hang from my swingset...
once i get a trad bow made , the wife wants to try rabbit hunting.
im looking forward to rabbit , squirrel , frog ,pheasant , turkey , deer , and possibly fish if i can find some walleye close to the surface...
i have downed a couple yotes for an old friend , and since they were out in the middle of the day , she wanted to burn the carcass cause she thought they were rabid. never really did much hunting in my life , spent a few weekends looking for deer in the woods during season though...
-hov
Feed the Buzzards!! Only kidden! Chow them, everything but Yotes. They feed the buzzards!
I don't kill anything I don't eat and don't hunt anything that I don't eat and can eat me.