What's the Science behind digging a hole?

[teejk]

**** right, guys that shoot animals for from the road or for no reason should be shot. Most don't even try to retrieve them, it's wasteful.

I don't support it but I have heard of people filling there freezer out of season, but at least they harvest the animal to use not kill it and leave it lay.

That being said I have been thinking of finding a good way to cook raccoon and possum lol, only animals I haven't eaten yet but have taken for trying to eat my chickens. Not long ago a coon was going Freddy Krueger on the pumpkins I feed to my cows, it was tearing up 6-10 a night so had to put a end to that.

I've tasted raccoon at game feeds a few times and thought it was pretty good but whoever prepared it knew the secret. Never tried to cook it myself but there have to be some hints out there on the internet (if you can get by all the alarmists worried about worms and high cholesterol and other such stuff). Possum...granny Clampet comes to mind and I don't have a pool table. Now don't let this steer the conversation to anything other than food served at a game feed...somebody always provided trapped beaver meat...that would be an "acquired taste" IMHO...greasy and "strong" flavor.

 

[mike48]

Hi,
I agree with Gary My Dad told me long time back that's the way it works on the moon phases it effects fishing and hunting they feed on certain moon phase, so try it sometime.
Mike

 

[txndncowboy]

I've tasted raccoon at game feeds a few times and thought it was pretty good but whoever prepared it knew the secret. Never tried to cook it myself but there have to be some hints out there on the internet (if you can get by all the alarmists worried about worms and high cholesterol and other such stuff). Possum...granny Clampet comes to mind and I don't have a pool table. Now don't let this steer the conversation to anything other than food served at a game feed...somebody always provided trapped beaver meat...that would be an "acquired taste" IMHO...greasy and "strong" flavor.

Being poor my folks cooked anything and everything. I've been told I've had possum but I sure don't remember it. I've shot the things for killing my chickens but no darn way was I going to try fixing the thing. Like everything, there must be a trick but I'll stick to the beef and chickens I raise now thank you very much.

 

[Wagtail]

I've tasted raccoon at game feeds a few times and thought it was pretty good but whoever prepared it knew the secret. Never tried to cook it myself but there have to be some hints out there on the internet (if you can get by all the alarmists worried about worms and high cholesterol and other such stuff). Possum...granny Clampet comes to mind and I don't have a pool table. Now don't let this steer the conversation to anything other than food served at a game feed...somebody always provided trapped beaver meat...that would be an "acquired taste" IMHO...greasy and "strong" flavor.

A quick story from my Navy days... I stumbled out of a "bar' in Manilla and was feeling peckish before heading back to my ship. There was a "street food" vendor cooking skewers of something and it smelled appetising to my inebriated self. I bought one and it was indeed quite tasty.

I asked the proprietor as to what I was enjoying and he said, "Chicken of the Sea!" I was perplexed until the gentleman pointed to a seagull.

I guess that the secret was in the sauce.

 

[teejk]

A quick story from my Navy days... I stumbled out of a "bar' in Manilla and was feeling peckish before heading back to my ship. There was a "street food" vendor cooking skewers of something and it smelled appetising to my inebriated self. I bought one and it was indeed quite tasty.

I asked the proprietor as to what I was enjoying and he said, "Chicken of the Sea!" I was perplexed until the gentleman pointed to a seagull.

I guess that the secret was in the sauce.

I never knew that sailors drank. For years the lowly porcupine was protected in some states...something about mountain men getting lost and apparently the porkie was easy to catch and safe to eat. I often wonder how many people would try (and like) different foods if they didn't know what they were eating.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

I never knew that sailors drank. For years the lowly porcupine was protected in some states...something about mountain men getting lost and apparently the porkie was easy to catch and safe to eat. I often wonder how many people would try (and like) different foods if they didn't know what they were eating.

My dad went to grad school in Russia and claimed that he had learned the porcupine was a Russian delicacy. They would case the whole thing in clay and then bake it, when it was done they would smash the clay and all of the quills would stay in the clay.

 

[turnkey4099]

I never knew that sailors drank. For years the lowly porcupine was protected in some states...something about mountain men getting lost and apparently the porkie was easy to catch and safe to eat. I often wonder how many people would try (and like) different foods if they didn't know what they were eating.

I shot one and talked my mother into cooking it. She boiled it but no matter how much salt, pepper, etc she added it was pretty tasteless.

 

[Oaktree]

I often wonder how many people would try (and like) different foods if they didn't know what they were eating.

Once many years ago while visiting someone in Indiana I had part of a brain sandwich (which from what I understand is a state/county fair favorite there). Tasted kinda sorta like a fast food deep fried fish sandwich only different. Might have enjoyed it more if I hadn't know what it was ahead of time.

 

[oosik]

Digging a hole and trying to stomp all the dirt back in is akin to trying to fit that Chinese made mountain tent back into the tiny sack it came in.

There is a small town down SE of me - Clinton, MT - that has an annual ******** Festival. UMMMMM - good. God bless the sheep.

 

[Wagtail]

Digging a hole and trying to stomp all the dirt back in is akin to trying to fit that Chinese made mountain tent back into the tiny sack it came in.

There is a small town down SE of me - Clinton, MT - that has an annual ******** Festival. UMMMMM - good. God bless the sheep.

Say that three times fast! :laughing:

['******** festival', not 'that']