Do you eat what you kill?

Mercury · May 2002

I keep seeing references to people shooting all sorts of things (nothing wrong with that!) but are you EATING these animals?

I was raised to "eat what you kill" and always have hunted rabbits, squirrels, quail, deer, etc. We ate it, of course.

What about people who are shooting coyotes and prairie dogs? I know of a few people who used to eat possum, raccoon, etc, but I've never heard of anyone eating coyotes or prairie dogs.

So......do you eat what you kill?

Merc

NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!

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"Tolerating things you may not necessarily like is part of being free" - Larry Flynt

v35 · May 2002

Just bopped a squirrel with 21 pumps of an old Benjamin 177
pistol. These buggers dug up my lawn all all fall burying acorns and again all spring recovering them. The score so far this spring is two chucks and two squrrels. We have an oak about four feet in diameter, producing acorns that draws em in from far and wide.
I suspect a big mamma chuck and some hatchlings will be emerging soon
to start eating our flowers.
No, I don't eat the critters. They go into landfill.

4GodandCountry · May 2002

It depends on what I kill and what I kill it with. Ive shot groundhogs with a 7mm mag. and there was nothing left. I've never ate a prairie dog but some friends and I once as young'ns ate groundhog to see what it tasted like. Guess what? It tasted like chicken. LOL. Generally spealing though, groundhogs get wiped out when they are targeted near fields ware cattle can break legs, coyote are shot because the kill newborn calves, muskrats are usually taken care of by my boxer and anything else that is destrctive is dealt with accordingly. I don't kill just for the fun of it, I would as soon shoot at a piece of paper. It does feel good to bust a coyote you see trotting away from the carcass of one of your newborn calves though, it doesn't account for the loss but it sets the mind at ease that his marauding days are done. Kill It and Grill It a Ted Nugent cook book
has some tastey recipes.

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

mhanson · May 2002

Dad said only kill what your gonna eat (20 years in the army most of that he was a drill sargent) YES SIR!!! still live by that rule

William81 · May 2002

If I am not going to eat it, I don't shoot it....Well with the exception of Coyotes and skunks....

Mr. Lobo · May 2002

Hell yes!

Jim

GreenLantern · May 2002

Yes and no. I eat some of the venison, like sticks, jerky, bologna. Steaks, chops and and the rest, mom and dad get!! I'm a fussy eater

Rembrandt · May 2002

Not always....don't eat Crows and Coyotes....

He Dog · May 2002

I don't shoot anything I don't eat.

whiteclouder · May 2002

I eat something I wouldn't shoot.

Clouder..

chxbix · May 2002

I've found that NRA pistol targets are best served with a nice cabernet. I find silhouette targets to be much too filling.

No matter where you go, there you are.

ysacres · May 2002

I never could aquire a taste for the Washington ground squirrel, yellowbelly marmot, Kangaroo rats, black footed ferrets, hairytail mole, western mastiff bat, Porcupine, skunks or coyote.

Fire in the hole

JustC · May 2002

bwahahahahaha, Clouder, I bet if you re-think your position, you will indeed find that YES you have shot it many times, and stabbed it repeatedly. LOL

I eat most everything except a groundhog or blackbird and the like. I won't even take a shot on my crop damage permits if I don't have freezer room or someone who wants the deer. hard thing to do when there are 20 of em out in the field and I have a state endorsed "license to kill" in my pocket, but I respect the animals too much, even though I am allowed 40/month.

A great rifle with a junk scope,....is junk.

CAndres35 · May 2002

i eat most of what i kill including the groundhos and muskrats. i dont eat the coyotes are ferrell cats that i shoot but then i just shoot them to protect other small game. by the way a young groundhog this time of year that has been feeding on clover or alfalfa is delicious. you know they and muskrats are vegitarians. anyway what could be any nastier than a chicken?? CARL

Iconoclast · May 2002

I think I would be summarizing for most of those posting here if I said I distinguish between critters shot while hunting and those dispatched as an issue of pest control. I don't hunt what I don't eat, but I sure as hell shoot skunks, crows, and the like (man, wasting rats at the dump was a lot of fun in the good old days!) and would have to be close to death by starvation before I ate those critters. Groundhogs (woodchucks here abouts) fall into both categories. They make good stew.

Edited by - Iconoclast on 05/15/2002 18:52:12

varmit hunter · May 2002

Nothing can come close to Whooping crane gumbo.Well maybe baked Bald Eagle.

Well I was gunna, But I ant now.

He Dog · May 2002

Maybe I should put it this way: I don't kill anything I won't eat. Varmit, the Feds will be by shortly to see you!

rokkmann · May 2002

I sure do,it's the right thing to do.

COONASS · May 2002

If you don't shoot the prediators you won't have the others to shoot and eat............And don't knock eating *......Get a young one,
musk it out. .preboil it in seasoning and or crab boil.......bar-b-que or cook in the oven with cut up sweet potatoes on top........Oh Oh Oh what you say.................coonass

"A man is known by the
company his mind keeps."
T.A. Aldrich

jager22 · May 2002

i guess there is an exception to every rule........but i eat what i shoot...well i guess there are lots of exceptions

RockinU · May 2002

My freezer went out last week, lost about 3/4 of a deer, and 1/4 of an elk...sick with grief...must go on. I don't even pick up the dogs, coyotes, cats, fox that I kill, unless they have a really nice hide. That basset hound pelt looks great over my fireplace.

Do you eat what you kill?

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