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BBQ Groundhog for Din Din???

oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
Now guys..This will be long, but be patient and read it. You gals too, ok? It's partly toungue in cheek, partly serious.
My dear ole long gone pappy told me never to shoot anything I wasn't going to eat, and by and large, I've stuck to that.
I have a groundhog living in my front yard. He ain't botherin me none, but my .22 mag keeps whispering to me..'He lookin' mighty tasty.." A friend told me groundhogs are pretty good on a charcoal grill, and the two of them have me thinking hard right now..
About 55 or a few years ago, if it hadn't been for rabbits and squirrels, my parents, my six brothers and sisters and me would have been vegetarians from necessity. Well, also I can tell you..Snapping turtles make fine table fare.
Ok, down to it now.. What unusual animals have you eaten? Ok, go on with your roadkill jokes and lets enjoy them, but when you get through with that, be honest. I want to know seriously about the groundhog, because I'm half an inch from trying it. Anyone have experience? I'm serious now darn it..I'll be looking for serious replies along with the redneck ones..
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  • KnifecollectorKnifecollector Member Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to have a 90 year old man as a neighbor and he really liked eating groundhog. He would catch them in a box trap then keep them in a cage for about a week, feeding them all the cornbread and milk they would eat. Then he would eat them. I have one that's been in my garden eating my tomato plants. I have been thinking about eating it. People tell me groundhog smells bad when cooking but taste good, alot like chicken.
  • CAndres35CAndres35 Member Posts: 453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    groundhog is very good!!! be carefull though if you get a great big one they can be tough as all get out. you will have to pressure cook or crock pot before bbqing. they are strictly vegatarians and have very good taste. if you catch a young one in a clover or alphalfa field there is no better eating. CARL
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    Why? If he isnt bothering you..and I assume you dont need him for food?.. so why not let him live? *S*

    Anyways.. there are recipes on the web for groundhog..and from all
    reports.. its quite tasty..

    http://fordinfo.com/rec/recipe.htm

    http://www.safariclub.org/recipe.asp
  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    oldgunner ... would that be kinda like a rat burger?

    Seriously, as long as there aren't any parasites like rabbits carry until the first hard freeze ... what the heck! I say go for it ... but then you might miss him

    BlackRoses
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'll take mine parboiled then sliced thin on whole wheat bread with Mayo and swiss cheese. mmmm mmmmm mmmm

    Woods

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  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I believe that it is a fact that the sick, wormy rabbits die when the weather turns bad. That is why it is better to eat rabbit after a few good freezes, only the healthy ones remain alive. A person should look at the liver when butchering them and if it looks infected, don't eat it.
    On a previous post, I told a few stories that my Grand Father had told me about eating a lot of rabbit. I have a confession to make, I have never eaten rabbit and I don't just shoot them for the fun of it 'cause I think the rabbits have a tough enough time without me running a hollowpoint through 'em. OK,, and their kinda cute,,,,,
    Now prairie dogs aka "big stinkin' rodents",,thats different!!!

    "Just my opinion."
  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got a chuck living in my yard, I'm going to pop him with a .22 when I get a chance. Why? Because the kids are having trouble tripping in the holes he's making. A dead groundhog is better than a busted leg on a child. Ain't going to eat it this time of year. When on my property up north, I shoot every porcupine I see. Why? Because they eat the floor out of my sauna, and they kill my trees. I dump a cup of gas on them and burn the quills off so no scavenger gets wounded. I have heard that porcupine is very good eating, but since these are eating plywood, I have to think that the formaldehyde glue in the plywood has to be in the meat. I've eaten muskrat, back in my trapping days, and it is extremely good meat, they used to serve it in expensive restaurants as "marsh hare". Also have eaten raccoon, which to me is quite like beef, except tends towards the tough side. Rabbit and squirrel is always welcome as table fare, have eaten too many to count. They don't taste like chicken. They taste like rabbit and squirrel. I'd eat a woodchuck in a minute, but not sure what kind of parasites they may be carrying this time of year. His hole is already dug, just have to see him in the yard at the right time. Oh, and by the way, Bald Eagle kinda tastes like a combination of California Condor and Spotted Owl.
  • groundhog devastationgroundhog devastation Member Posts: 4,495
    edited November -1
    If you like fried rabbit then you'd like fried groundhog! Just a whole lot more meat on them rear legs!! Do par-boil or pressure cook prior to frying or you'll wear your jaws out chewing. GHD
  • n4thethrilln4thethrill Member Posts: 366 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    nutra now thats good

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  • squeakycsqueakyc Member Posts: 204 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Groundhogs ok as long as you cook it properly. Take your carcass and fill the body cavity with slices of apples, oranges and pineapple. Set it in your roast pan in an inch of water. Take a knife and cut some small slits in the meat and stuff in pieces of fresh garlic. Add a little salt and pepper; stick it in the oven and cook at 350 degrees until tender. When cooked remove the meat from the bones and cut it into pieces and spread it over a bed of wild rice. When cooking the rice add a little cumin to spice it up. Finally make gravy from the strained drippings and pour it over the meat and rice.
    A medium sized hog will feed four. If you like a vegetable with your meal try a small turnip combined with parsnip (the white carrot).
    It's a great meal and a favorite Canadian recipe.
  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    if it walks like a rodent & quacks like a rodent its gotta be a rodent.me no eatum rodents.
    barto

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I had a big garden, I had one heck of a lot of woodchuck (groundhog) stew with fresh veggies. Ummmm - GOOD! I found the meat to be on the sweet side.
  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All great answers, and even a few recipes..I guess I'll leave him alone for now Rose, he's half as big as a cow and probably tough as railroad spikes. Maybe he'll make me some younger ones. As for the right time for eating them, I'm not sure when that would be. Soon as a bit of frost touches their tails, they hibernate. If they're as good as rabbits though, I'll have to give it a try eventually.
    Kimber, never tried rat burger either..Hmmm, I wonder.... no,,, I think I'll pass on that one. I guess Dad was wrong. Some things just naturally need killing, like the rats and prairy dogs..
  • DupontDupont Member Posts: 129
    edited November -1
    I Think I will pass on the doggie bag brunch

    Once had Mountian Lion, Fried up just like chichen nuggets.
    Talk about good eaten!! White meat, tender and juicy!!! Better than any chicken I have ever had!!!!


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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have eaten snaping turtle once long time ago neighbors used to have a snaping turtle feed once a year, tasted all right.
    Also ate bear meat once when me and some guys were deer hunting in Wy,
    the people that we stayed with cooked us game meat every nite after hunting, the bear meat was just like pork,was greasy but tasted good.
    doc


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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ....how bout guinnea hens?
    This year during spring gobbler, I called in a guinnea hen.
    There is one that hangs out on my wifes grandmothers property. She has been begging us to shoot it, 'cause it has been digging up her lawn. She hates animals. She also constantly asks us to shoot her woodchucks.
    I dont want to shoot the guinnea hen because the neighbor has kind of grown attatched to it. Anyone ever eat one of those birds?

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  • azzeaterazzeater Member Posts: 187 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Timber, you sound like a selfish guy. You know, the ones that only do and care about what's conveient for them. NICE-Nice of you to shoot an animal because he's eating your SAUNA up north that you go to once a year. God forbid you instruct you kids to watch where they walk. I bet you drive an SUV. Remember that in the big picture of life what comes around goes around, if you shoot something, eat it.

    hey all!
  • azzeaterazzeater Member Posts: 187 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    By the way, it's the gasoline thing that pissed me off you stupid homo.

    hey all!
  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Petas on board.

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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    azzeater
    get a life ...do you know how many coyotes, racoons, skunks.p dogs,gophers,black birds,crows and ect i have shoot a left laying because they were either detroying my crops, livestock, carrying disease such as rabies (i have had to taken rabies shots twice now because of skunks and other animals infecting other animals with rabies that i had come in contact with) and ect. if you want to eat everything you shoot be my guest but you will never catch me eating a skunk,coyote ,* and ect.
    i used to trap fox,coyotes,badgers,mink and ect to sell the fur so there would be some good use of these animals.. they were used to make coats and ect out of them plus it kept the population in check so they didnt get over populated and die from disease but people spraying paint on people's fur coats because it was made out of real fur killed the fur market so now i just shootem and leave em.
    doc
    ps by the way i drive two big diesel pickups i bet you hate them dont you


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  • DupontDupont Member Posts: 129
    edited November -1
    salzo

    If you like chichen, you'll like guinnea hens!!

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  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I've never eaten groundhog , hell i've never seen one in the wild.....But have eaten just about everything else, would hate to name them, really don't want to hear all the @#$%^&**&&^...
    BUT send me one or two and I'll let you know how they compare to *.

    coonass

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  • azzeaterazzeater Member Posts: 187 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    cowdoc, as a matter of fact i like deisels and hold a class A C.D.L. but i hate when people trash the earth and act in a manner of disrespect for nature. You fricken gitter dones build and build and build and the f*%&ing animals have no place to go, then you stupid redneckS get that confused with the "TOO MANY, JUST POPULATION CONTROL" theory. You know what, a lot of people keep squirting out kids, so why don't we shoot em cus they are costing us money. I don't and won't have kids so they ARE an inconvenience to me, can i shoot em and sell their hides? I'd like to, so K.M.A!

    hey all!
  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ....ahhhh boy.

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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    azzeater..
    Everyone has a right to their opinions, and to have that opinion respected.. God knows I have disagreed with members on here, and they have disagreed with me as well.. but I WILL NEVER resort to name calling, no matter how much I disagree with a person..
    Children call each other names.. not intelligent adults..
  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Okay, azzeater, next time I shoot a porcupine, I'll just leave it lay without burning off the quills. Then the coyotes, ravens, Canadian Jays and the bobcats and others who feed on the carcass can get stuck with the quills and die a long, lingering death as the quills work their way into their bodies and become infected. Child, you don't know a damn thing about me, and you just proved you don't know a damn thing about nature. I drive an 89 F-250HD, and I make most of my living cutting trees and milling them on my property. C'mon up sometime. I'll show you my "pet" snowshoe hare who lives under the shack. He's got a gimpy leg and right now he's covered with ticks, but he'll still eat out of your hand if you're real nice to him. He always comes out early in the morning, I don't know if it's the sound of my feet on the floor over his head, or the smell of the coffee, but we visit. I eat a lot of his relatives, though. Hope you grow up some day, you sound like you could be a pretty good man, once you finish with your boyhood.
  • Dyer_MakerDyer_Maker Member Posts: 1,018
    edited November -1
    Azzeater, have you ever ran over a animal on the highway(by accident of course) and left it lay? If you have then maybe you need to get rid of your deisel .Because not only are you killing animals with it ur also polluting are air. If you want to take the high road are your shoe's made of leather? Maybe you should go barefoot. And as far as your name goes ,azzeater. It sounds an awful like asseater which is pretty sick. So maybe your just sick???
  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    TIMBERBEAST- YOU CUT DOWN TREES?
    OH THE HUMANITY!!
    You must wear earplugs, cause if you didnt, you would hear the trees screaming.
    AZZEATER- I think you are onto something. I saw this fellow on TV, and he is the president of this organization that wants to prohibit humans from being allowed to breed. He figures that humans do too much damage to the earth. And if everyone stopped breeding, humans would go exstinct, and then the earth can live happily ever after.
    I think he has a bulletin board on the web.

    "The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
    -James Madison
  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    azzeater
    as a matter of fact i have great repect for nature as my whole livly hood
    is at the hands of nature. i farm crops and raise beef cattle for people to eat it doent do me any good to destroy the soil and everything involved in farming and raising beef cattle. when i graze pastures i try to only use half the grass so to leave some to hold snow for moisture and prevent invader grasses from taking over my range land ect and ect.
    i also practice notill farming so i dont lose any soil due to wind, water erosion,as i hope my kid will take over the farm and ranch when i retire someday so why would i want to destroy my land!!!!
    Farmer and ranchers are very aware of the balance of nature it does me no good if things get way out of wack.
    I live most of my life outside working with nature so i do know whats going on. my whole place is my home and i do take care of it...my house it just a place to get in out of the elements for a few hrs of the day ,all my land that i own is my home and that is many thousands of acres.
    by the way there is no building going on here there are four families that live in the same township that i live in! 1 township= 36 square miles.
    you can call me what ever names you want doesnt bother me a bit.
    and with that,
    that is all i will say about it
    have a good day
    doc

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  • azzeaterazzeater Member Posts: 187 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Blackroses is right! I apologize for the name calling! Sorry TIMBER. I just hate when people crap on the land!!!!! It's like nobody has any respect and I am very sensitive to it. I was being the stupid homo! I still don't think your porcupine will be eatin if it smells and tastes like gas, but it ain't woth arguing about. Thanks for the compliment, i hope to grow up to be a good man. A lot of my peers are complete idiots and i want to be different.

    hey all!
  • azzeaterazzeater Member Posts: 187 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Blackroses is right! I apologize for the name calling! Sorry TIMBER. I just hate when people crap on the land!!!!! It's like nobody has any respect and I am very sensitive to it. I was being the stupid homo! I still don't think your porcupine will be eatin if it smells and tastes like gas, but it ain't woth arguing about. Thanks for the compliment, i hope to grow up to be a good man. A lot of my peers are complete idiots and i want to be different. Peace!

    hey all!
  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    No problem, azzeater. Peace. The gas burns off, they do get eaten. My land is my living, I nurture it and protect it, and it is good to me. Apologies say a lot about a man. Some never have the guts to do it. You're OK in my book!
  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was growing up in WV I would have starved to death without them. Thats no joke. If it's not destroying anything leave it be.
  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We all have a viewpoint of course. There are some animals that are downright destructive to farmland, and we can't blame farmers for doing battle with them. I've been there in my youth and seen raccoons destroy a cornfield just for fun, for instance. They will tear down every stalk, take a nibble or two from each ear, leave the rest to rot. They're ok in their place, as are all animals, and I suppose all have a purpose, but farmers have a right to make a living as much as anyone, and I don't blame them one bit for protecting their hard work and investment. So darn, let's live and let live. Let's accept things as they are, do the best we can and remain friends.
    To get back to what we were discussing, guinea hens are quite good. Bear meat is so so, my opinion. The tongue is especially tasty. In my youth I tried a 'possum once on a dare, won't do dat again fer sure..My dad liked raccoon, and I might try it, except I've made friends with a young one. He eats my table scraps every day, and will almost but not quite, let me touch him, so it would be a bit like eating a housecat to me. But that's just a personal preferance. I expect he would taste just fine.

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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    oldgunner- I know what you mean about making friends. I have a pet rabbit, and since getting him I cant shoot rabbits.
    At first it was worse than that. I was out squirrel hunting, and a squirrel jumped in front of me. I aimed at him, and I saw my rabbit looking at me. I let the little rodent go. Went home questioning my purpose, and the next day I went out and shot 3 suirrels- I thought about how much I love squirrel-tastes like country spare ribs to me.

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    -James Madison
  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    I remenmber as a kid, my dad was all the time trying to kill this big groundhog that lived accross the creek and up at the far end of one of our meadows. One morning me and my older brother caught him " the groundhog" out of his hole and we popped him with a 22 in the skull and killed him. We then tied him to a stick and stuck it in the ground propping him up and went and got dad. Dad lined up the crosshairs on his new 25-06 and let it rip. The groundhog of course didn't run, so dad proceded to shoot again and again and finally once more before it fell. Of course by this time he was mad because we were rolling on the ground histerically. He then started up the meadow to check out the hog and me and my brother kinda just disappeared outa sight but watched as he realised what we had done. He must have thought it was a pretty good prank cause he laughed so hard it brought tears to his eyes and it was one of his favorite stories to tell when he would tell stories about us kids growing up. By the way, he hit the thing with each shot, about all that was left was a couple of paws and some skin holding them together.

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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    4godandcountry-Now thats a good story.

    "The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
    -James Madison
  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Salzo, I'm with you on the squirrels..I don't think anything could be better..I love the young ones fried, but my mother used to boil the tough ones and make dumplings with them. Actually, I have some in my freezer right now, and I'm going to take them to her to fix for me. We have a spring season here that just ended yesterday. My mom is 85, but still the best cook on earth.
    4GodandCountry, yep, a great story, and I have one for you.
    When I was 10, I shot a robin with my Red Ryder BB gun. My dad was a believer in eating what you kill, so you can guess..He made me eat it.Darn, it was the only "meat" I had that day, and it tasted pretty good..Nope, not like chicken, but it was about like a dove. In fact, I wanted to go out and shoot some more the next day, but he did me in, took my BB gun away from me for a week. He had very strong principals about conservation and such things. Good ole man though, the following year he bought me my first .22 for my birthday. A single shot Winchester, then he took me squirrel hunting. My first squirrel looked like it had been run over by a fork lift, since I shot it about five times, but he and my mom pretended I had done something great, cooked it for me, and I've been a hunter ever since.God, the youth of today have lost so much..unless they have parents like mine..

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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    OLDGUNNER- One of my favorite squirrel recipes.
    Throw them in a pot and boil them for a little while.
    Then add some sourkraut and some good boiling potatoes. I prefer small potatoes, with the skin on.
    When the potatoes are done, put some of the concoction in a bowl, and put a dab of butter. HMMMMMMM HMMMMM GOOD!!
    Robbins- A friend of mine told me that when he was a kid, him and a bunch of pals would hunt for robbins. They would fill up a back pack with robbins, and had a grill set up in the woods, they would breast them, grill them, and feast on robbin breasts. Said it was very tasty-then again, kids can eat the darndest things.

    "The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Making me hungry darn it. I love squirel stew, but heres one that to this day makes me ill, grandma would boil the sqirels then roll them in flour and salt and pepper and fry them. Now cooking them that way is all well and fine but, she would leave there heads on them. Yep, she liked to eat the brains, yuuuuuuuucccckkkkkkyyyyyyy. After witnessing this first hand and laughing so histerically at her that I was sent from the dinner table with both of my brothers following shortly therafter, we made a pact that from that day forward we would kill our squirels with head shots so granny couldnt gross us out by eating their little brains.

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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