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Thread ID: 19391 | Posts: 21 | Started: 2005-08-02
2005-08-02 20:52 | User Profile
Ive always just fried them up and served with whatever vegetables were to be had like red potatoes or okra. However, when i start hunting again this fall, Im going to try this recipe for squirrels. [url]http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir10.html[/url]
Im also going to try something similar with doves this season, if i go. Doves when fried up arent much bigger than a chicken gizzard and about as tough. Fixing a mess of them in a skillet with onions and gravy sounds much better. Serve with cornbread and cold beer. yum
2005-08-02 22:39 | User Profile
JoseyWales,
I fear I have never eaten squirrel. I know a number of people who have they liked them.
Just wondering what kind of gun and cartritage do you use?
2005-08-03 12:52 | User Profile
A shotgun with #6 or #8 load works good, or a .22
2005-08-03 13:04 | User Profile
I shot and ate a squirrel once. I cooked it slowly in a dutch oven (at least an hour) and then made a flour gravy out of the drippings. It was good, not in the least bit tough.
2005-08-03 14:09 | User Profile
Doves when fried up arent much bigger than a chicken gizzard and about as tough.
Doves on the barbecue aren't tough, if done right. Take a jalapeno or other pepper and place it in the hollow cavity of the breast, then wrap a piece of bacon around it. Spear thru with a toothpick and grill till done (about 10 minutes, depending on heat). It's pretty damn good!
2005-08-03 15:55 | User Profile
Aren't squirrels basically rats?
2005-08-03 17:31 | User Profile
[QUOTE=JoseyWales]Ive always just fried them up and served with whatever vegetables were to be had like red potatoes or okra. However, when i start hunting again this fall, Im going to try this recipe for squirrels. [url]http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir10.html[/url]
Im also going to try something similar with doves this season, if i go. Doves when fried up arent much bigger than a chicken gizzard and about as tough. Fixing a mess of them in a skillet with onions and gravy sounds much better. Serve with cornbread and cold beer. yum[/QUOTE]
Squirrels are unclean!
2005-08-03 17:31 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]Aren't squirrels basically rats?[/QUOTE]
Yes, they are.
2005-08-03 22:43 | User Profile
Aren't squirrels basically [URL=http://209.41.184.21/partners/680/public/news645430.html]people[/URL]? "A BellSouth worker was mistaken for a squirrel during the weekend and was hit by a shotgunââ¬â¢s pellets, police reported Monday."
Here's some help: Rats have skinny, ugly tails. Squirrels have big, bushy tails. People don't have tails.
2005-08-04 05:33 | User Profile
Look squirrel in the face, not ass, HH
2005-08-04 06:41 | User Profile
[QUOTE=JoseyWales]Ive always just fried them up and served with whatever vegetables were to be had like red potatoes or okra. However, when i start hunting again this fall, Im going to try this recipe for squirrels. [url]http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir10.html[/url]
Im also going to try something similar with doves this season, if i go. Doves when fried up arent much bigger than a chicken gizzard and about as tough. Fixing a mess of them in a skillet with onions and gravy sounds much better. Serve with cornbread and cold beer. yum[/QUOTE]Squirrels sound hard to hunt especially if you want to get enough to eat. For all the Aggie folk that may be listening in, got any good recipe's for Armadillo?
(Like Mexicans, Texas keeps sending em North. We ough to be able out figure out a good use for at least one :wink: )
2005-08-04 12:12 | User Profile
Squirrel was good enough for these people.
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/bardamu/pioneers.jpg[/IMG]
2005-08-04 12:16 | User Profile
Squirrel was good enough for these folks.
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/bardamu/pioneers.jpg[/IMG]
2005-08-04 22:55 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]Look squirrel in the face, not ass, HH[/QUOTE]
Good advice, madrussian. :huh: :blink:
2005-08-04 23:01 | User Profile
My mother has an old cookbook, published in 1940, with recipes for squirrel, including Brunswick stew. There's also a recipe for roast possum, and another for scrapple (boiled hog's head with cornmeal.)
2005-08-04 23:14 | User Profile
[QUOTE=JoseyWales]A shotgun with #6 or #8 load works good, or a .22[/QUOTE]Just curious how you hunt squirrel. When I'm in the woods usually you never see them. It seems to me they're pretty skittish.
2005-08-04 23:51 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Okiereddust]Just curious how you hunt squirrel. When I'm in the woods usually you never see them. It seems to me they're pretty skittish.[/QUOTE]
Go into the woods and sit down quietly for awhile.
2005-08-05 00:02 | User Profile
Bardamu,
I have never hunted them, but never had any trouble seeing them. Just look up in the trees and walk quietly. I see lots of them in city too.
As I said I have been told the meat is great. Squirrel do not eat anything but acorns and tree nuts, that does not seen unclean. A lot of the cattle raised in feed lots are fed chicken feces and powered dead cattle. Now that is yucky!
I do not mind the Armadillos, but I could do without the two legged things crossing from south of the border. On town in Texas has a festival where they make Armadillo into chili. Armadillos look cool stuffed too.
2005-08-05 00:30 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Bardamu,
I have never hunted them, but never had any trouble seeing them. Just look up in the trees and walk quietly. I see lots of them in city too.
As I said I have been told the meat is great. Squirrel do not eat anything but acorns and tree nuts, that does not seen unclean. A lot of the cattle raised in feed lots are fed chicken feces and powered dead cattle. Now that is yucky!
I do not mind the Armadillos, but I could do without the two legged things crossing from south of the border. On town in Texas has a festival where they make Armadillo into chili. Armadillos look cool stuffed too.[/QUOTE]
You don't see many squirrels in the Bay Area but where I'm from in Iowa they are everywhere, and as you say, they are so numerous it's not even necessary to sit quietly to spot them, at least until after the first shot. I also concur with you on their healthy and "clean" eating habits. It's hard to beat acorn-fed free-range squirrel for lean cuisine, pioneer style.
2005-08-05 00:33 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Okiereddust]Just curious how you hunt squirrel. When I'm in the woods usually you never see them. It seems to me they're pretty skittish.[/QUOTE]
Have you tried the local university campus? I think they import them.
2005-08-05 03:54 | User Profile
JoseyWales and Bardamu
You might find this amusing. Note I have not tried this myself.
[QUOTE].30-06 Squirrel load
ââ¬ÅFor Squirrels, load three grains of Bullseye pistol powder in the case and press a No. 0 buckshot into the mouth of the case with your thumb. If the buckshot is lose, patch with a piece of facial tissue. You have to elevate the muzzle of the rifle each time you fire or rather, just before you fire, to seat the powder back on the primer, but this pip-squeak load will give good accuracy out about fifty yards and will take old bushytail out of the highest tree without excess meat damage.ââ¬Â
From Hobby Gunsmithing by Ralph T. Walker [/QUOTE]