What Game Animals are considered edible?

Yolla Bolly · December 19, 2007, 09:49:00 AM

A few years ago during a mule deer hunt, my partner and I encountered a large number of grouse on a particular hilltop. When we reported the occurance on returning to camp, my partner's young grandson declared he want to go hunt them. So we equipped him with a 20 ga., directions to the spot, and a description of a grouse. He loped off, and returned a few hours later with a big grin, and a flicker in his game bag.
I told him "You shot it, you eat it"---helped him clean it and broil it over coals (like I did with every kind of bird I killed as a kid).
That young sproat is now a police officer somewhere in CO---but every we talk, he gets asked if has shot any "Orange-tailed grouse" lately.

John McCreary · December 19, 2007, 10:13:00 AM

This reminds me of a story I heard a few years ago. Seems a distant cousin of mine from Texas was arrested and subsequently tried for poaching a Whooping Crane. At his sentencing the judge offered to commute Cuz's sentence if he would explain why anyone would kill a Whooping Crane.
Well, said Cuz, to be honest yer Hon'r it taste jus like Golden Eagle....

John

John Nail · December 19, 2007, 11:01:00 AM

Genesis 1:29-30 (King James Version)
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29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Seems to set a Precedant, doesn't it?

laddy · December 19, 2007, 12:20:00 PM

Our clean water sand pits have huge blue crawdads come into the shallows after ice out. Fry 'em in butter and mushrooms and a pinch of garlic, scary good. Oh yeah, try for head shots.

Jason R. Wesbrock · December 19, 2007, 01:22:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Tom Mussatto:
Depends on what side of the Mason-Dixon line you're on.

I-80?

Tom Mussatto · December 19, 2007, 01:40:00 PM

Jason, you're on the civilized side of the line where only food stuffs God intended for human consumption are put on a plate. However, being from Cook County you have other issues.

Never could understand how years ago folks who ate coons and 'possums (nasty, nasty animals) would question my eating groundhogs. Strange.

geno · December 19, 2007, 01:45:00 PM

I tried one of those piliated wookpeckers one time. Tast wasnt bad but it was to tough to eat.
I like gator if its cooked right. no way would I try yote.I have heard robin is good eating. Might try some this spring.

ChristopherO · December 19, 2007, 01:52:00 PM

My dad worked with a feller who enjoyed catching possums live and feeding grain a few days before eating them. One cold eveing under a moonlite sky he happened upon a half eaten horse. Upon giving it a kick out rolled a possum. The two in his sack were let out and he never et possum again. You would have thought he knew they eat rotten meat.?.

laddy · December 19, 2007, 01:55:00 PM

Once Iowa game warden, Ron Ely, caught some Mong with 72 robins in the trunk of their car. One of them almost shot me earlier that same day shooting at a hen pheasant two weeks before the opener. the judge basiacally chewed him out for getting in the way of their food hunting. When they got to court suddenly they all forgot how to speak english. they were being supported by the local churches at the time. Politically correct isn't always correct. If it ain't legal don't shoot it, even if you think God gave you every living creature to use as you seem fit. I will turn you in.

Ia Hawkeye · December 19, 2007, 01:55:00 PM

No offense intended to anyone, but don't kill it unless you plan to eat it or it's a danger to you or yours, or it's a pest. (ie;, vermin, dangerous, etc.

I've eaten coon, possum, beaver, (get your mind out of the gutter guys ),turtle,carp, ground squirrel, rattle snake, crawdads, frogs etc. it's all good if you know how to fix it.

Just my opinions.

Tom Mussatto · December 19, 2007, 02:02:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Ia Hawkeye:
...but don't kill it unless you plan to eat it...

Absolutely, couldn't agree more. As much as I would like to try bowhunting geese I don't for that reason. Anybody silly enough to eat a goose is probably crazy enough to eat a duck.

Looks like we have some really, really hungry people on here.

I once ate dog and a smelly fermented weed thingy but in my defense I did not do so knowingly. Seemed like my internal body temperature rose about 10 degrees. Don't know if it was the meat or the spices. I suspect Dau Do Thei is still laughing over that one, she was quite the prankster. Only upside is that even after almost 40 years I still use that incident as an excuse for some of my odd behavior.

rxhntr · December 19, 2007, 03:58:00 PM

rattlesnake fajitas, frog legs--all good. goose is good table fare and duck, I grind it into sausage links---good stuff. Like it was said earlier if prepared correctly then good.

laddy · December 19, 2007, 04:05:00 PM

I have found that snow geese are very difficult to prepare. Next time I will try creamed snow goose on bread.

702plmo · December 19, 2007, 07:32:00 PM

We shoot alotof geese around here. The young ones are good table fair. The older ones we cut the breasts out and make jerky out of them. It makes a great jerky meat and a fun conversation piece.

I had BBQ'ed beaver once and I went back for seconds.

Grandparents talked about eating coons and opposums back in the day.

we eat alot of doves, rabbits and squirrels.

Some guy was talking about eating deer kidneys. he said they were great. I asked how he fixed them and he stated "The first thing you do is boil the piss out of them" LOL

allanburden · December 19, 2007, 07:49:00 PM

702plmo, that is too funny. I'm really enjoying this thread guys. Keep it up.

Jason R. Wesbrock · December 19, 2007, 07:49:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Tom Mussatto:
Jason, you're on the civilized side of the line where only food stuffs God intended for human consumption are put on a plate. However, being from Cook County you have other issues.

Cook County!?!?!? Well heck, why don't you just go ahead and insult my dog next? Born in Kane, moved to Kendall then Dekalb. I don't even like driving through Cook.

Cook County? Good Lord man. I didn't know you hated me.

Rico · December 20, 2007, 12:55:00 AM

Breast the goose grind the meat and mix with a little pork,egg,grated cheese,and bread crumbs a meatball mix and fry very edible. I don't feel compelled to eat everything I catch or shoot. Have taken carp,woodchuck,crow,fox,coyteetc no remorse good for you if you can eat them. I'm pretty picky when it comes to food.

John 4 · December 20, 2007, 01:30:00 AM

If it don't bite me first,,,it's lunch.

laddy · December 20, 2007, 02:01:00 AM

There was a gentleman and is family that used to live near here that would eat your cat for lunch and your dog for dinner. He shot them with a bow, so I guess that would make him a domestic bowhunter. NO, I am not surfing to see if anyone has got a good recipe for Jason's dog!!

Tom Mussatto · December 20, 2007, 08:22:00 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by Jason R. Wesbrock:
Cook County!?!?!? Well heck, why don't you just go ahead and insult my dog next? Born in Kane, moved to Kendall then Dekalb. I don't even like driving through Cook.

Cook County? Good Lord man. I didn't know you hated me.

Oops, my bad. From way down here we think everyone from northern IL is from Cook County.

I should have known better. I doubt there is a single squirrel hunter in all of Cook County. Do they even have trees there?

Robins??? Aren't they protected song birds? I think all we're allowed to take here is pigeons and starlings. Don't know about starlings but pigeon is good eating.