Eating predators?

[chinook907]

Lynx is excellent, but very dry.  Have skunned a number of wolves and there tends to be a light smell thats tough to take, gets worse over time, so never tried the meat.

[Gooserbat]

I've eat the bob cat and it was prety good and I'd eat it again, but I'm gona be fresh outa possums and skunks before I eat a coyote

[Brian Krebs]

Raccoons are super good if they are real young; and the meat is white.
Mountain lion is probably the best wild meat there is- its like veal.
Possums are very good; one guy wanted to solve the world food crisis by growing zucchinis- and feeding the left overs to opossums. I think that has some merit.
I had skunk once; and it was not revolting- it was in a lot of barbecue sauce at a game dinner.

I am not a liver liker; and I am a puppy people- so I have no intention of trying dog.

I had a hundred elk tonight in my hay pile; and when I went out to shoo them off- ( 2:30 am) there were wolves howling to the north of me.... perhaps I will be able to comment on wolf ( I have a tag!).

[onewhohasfun]

30 yrs. ago a guy I know had a pit bull. It nipped his son and within an hour that mutt was on the grill.

[hayslope]

The only thing I've ever had the stones to try was cougar.  I will admit...it was delicious.  Think lean pork (my take on it).

The meat came from a native CO cowboy, who had been in the outfitting business on the west slope for many moons.  His favorite thing to do was chase cats in Jan/Feb with his string of dogs.  He said he had never heard of someone actually eating them until a client who booked with him asked if everyone packed the meat out.  He laughed and told him no one eats cat.....the client tells him he doesn't know what he's missing.  Ya really have to know this ol' boy.....anyway, the comment gets his mind to thinking and long story short, he eventually carries some meat back after a client gets one.....the rest as they say is history.  From what I gather, every cat they got from then on, the meat was kept. I remember him claiming one time that someone from Denver actually wanted to buy the meat.

Anyhow....someone figured out the cat meat thing long ago.

As for canines....let's just say we own dogs....seeing them in cages destined for consumption in certain parts of Asia is not a good memory.

[acolobowhunter]

I ate the entire mountain lion in my avatar.  Cut it into steaks.  Was great!  Only problem was:  For a couple weeks, I kept rubbing around on the couch legs and hissing when the wife asked me to work on the honey do list.  

[Ryan High]

No way I would even try yote they are nasty critters but I would probably try mountain lion though if I had the chance.

[RecurveJim]

I got a yote the first week of shotgun in MA and seriously contemplated eating it,the meat looked really nice,if I was trying to survive id definately  eat it,i guess the reason i didnt was cuz i had deer in the freezer from bow season.I was also concerned about getting a disease although I have never heard of any other than rabies

[John3]

Only true predator for me was Black Bear which was surprisingly good. I would eat bear again.

All the others only if I was hungry enough... Then anything will taste good.

John III

[Mark U]

About fell out of the chair reading some of these posts.  

"but I'm gona be fresh outa possums and skunks before I eat a coyote"

 What can you say?  

Lion is pretty good, and is compared to pork quite a bit.  Feral cats have to be the same.  I think if somebody came up with a really good recipe for feral cats, our song bird populations would soar.

[Thumper Dunker]

Im hurting from laughing. Came real close to eating a coyote after i skined it out looked good , was in the woods too long . Me and my buddy chickend out . I think I would if someone did it with me.Could get one with mange that way you would not have to burn the hair off.

[Cottonmouth]

Originally posted by Two Tracks:
Mt.Lion
Bear
Gator
Shark(lots of fish are predetors I guess)
Turtle
coon
woodchuck
stuff overseas that I don't want to know.
Lion and bear are my best, no doubt.
Can't do the dog thing tho(I'm like Mike)

Woodchucks are predators?  

[saumensch]

In the Lewis and Clark Diary Cpt Lewis is speaking in the highest manner of eating dog and wolf, he writes dog tastes liek beaver and while the meat of deer and "wapetoe" was not nutritious enough during the winter the ones that ate dog got healthier and better. At the end he even prefers dog over most other meat and buys them from the indians for eating purpose.

I definately  could eat a dog, but not unless i have to. But, when i think of it, my girl friends dog is named "pork-chop"  

[Joseph]

Mountain Lion is absolutely delicious and I ate dog while I was in Korea and it was mighty good also but I haven't had that since I got out of the Army in 93.  Another meat most folks in the U.S. don't thibk about that is very good is Horse.  Joseph

[chadt1]

OOPS   i thought you ment BLACK WIDOWS eating PREDATOR BOWS

HA HA HA HA HA

[bloodyarrow]

Fred Eichler and his wife ate some bobcat the other day on his predator hunting show. said it was real good

[Rufus]

I had mountain lion once and thought it was good. Found many things good when doing Marine Corp survival school training. Well, at least good at the time.

[saumensch]

Only predators i actualy ate were fish. Ohh and once a can of crocodile, tasted like mud with urine in jelly.  

[DannyBows]

I ate dog while living in the Philippines when social courtesy was called for. It was O.K. The only time I refused was when my Karate Instructor tried feeding me some of a dog I raised and gave him. It was at my Blackbelt Promotion party. I didn't know he was going to eat it when I gave it to him. I wouldn't eat Coyote unless I was starving.

[razorsharptokill]

Bear is also my only consumed mammal predator. Not too shabby!