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Knocked a squirrel............
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......out on my pup today. He'll be 6 months old in about a week and a half. I think he'll do.
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Yes, with mashed potatoes, gravy and some hot biscuits.
Bet he enjoys that.
Nothin' like spoilin' yer carpet shark.
I need about 6-10 of them for a good meal or two.
They are very active right now and the dogs have tree'ed several.
Hell Sam I think the first frost is going to arrive with the first snow. It's dang near November and I was mowing grass yesterday.
My little European Bassett hound (PBGV) nailed one of the reds a couple days ago that was trespassing in her fenced back yard. She proudly brought the carcass (very slightly mangled) to the back porch for my inspection! 8-)
This a recipe I got off the internet and man is it good:
Squirrel Pies
There are a number of hacks and subs you can do here. First, you can use any white meat for the filling. Rabbit, turkey, pheasant, quail, partridge and yes, chicken would all be fine. Next, you can skip the acorn flour and just use a whole wheat or some other darkish flour your like. Third, you can use regular walnuts for the black walnuts... or use whatever nut makes you happy.
Prep Time15 mins
Cook Time25 mins
Resting time2 hrs
Total Time40 mins
Course: Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine: American
Servings: 9 pies
Author: Hank Shaw
Ingredients
DOUGH
1/2 cup acorn flour
1 3/4 cups white whole wheat flour, or regular AP flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup whole milk
1/2 cup duck fat, lard, butter or shortening
FILLING
3 tablespoons bacon fat
1 cup finely shredded cabbage
1 cup minced yellow or white onion
3/4 pound shredded and chopped squirrel meat
1 cup diced apple, peeled and cored (I use Granny Smiths)
1/2 cup toasted, chopped black walnuts
1/2 teaspoon Cavender's seasoning, or black pepper
1/2 cup warm stock, squirrel, chicken or something light
2 teaspoons sorghum syrup or molasses
1 cup shredded gruyere, emmental or jarlsberg cheese (optional)
Instructions
MAKE THE DOUGH
Mix the flours, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. In a small pot, heat the milk until it's steaming, then turn off the heat. Stir in the fat until it's mostly melted in; a few bits that aren't melted are fine.
Mix the wet ingredients into the dry with a fork until it's a shaggy mass. Knead this all together until you have a smooth ball, then shape it into a cylinder. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and set it in the fridge for at least 2 hours and up to overnight.
MAKE THE FILLING
Heat the bacon fat in a large pan over medium-high heat and add the cabbage and onions. Saute until softened, about 6 to 8 minutes. Salt this as it cooks. Add the squirrel meat( cooked in a pressure cooker and pulled off the bone), apple, walnuts and Cavender's seasoning (or black pepper), stir well and cook for a few minutes.
Stir the sorghum syrup in with the stock until combined, then pour this into the pan with everything else. Stir this well and let it cook another few minutes so the ingredients absorb the liquid. Turn off the heat and let the filling cool.
MAKE THE PIES
If you have a tortilla press, get it out and cut a heavy plastic bag apart to make two plastic sheets that you'll use to keep the dough off the metal of the press. If you don't have a press, lay out a work space and flour it well.
Cut the dough into anywhere between 8 and 10 pieces, trying to keep them about the same size. Put half the pieces back in the fridge. Roll a piece into a flat, disc and set it on a piece of plastic on the press. Put the other piece of plastic over it and squash the dough into a thin disc. I find that I do one squeeze, then adjust the dough so it's perfectly centered in the tortilla press.
If you don't have a press, roll the dough balls into flat discs about 1/8 of an inch thick.
Remove the dough from the plastic and put about 1/4 cup of filling on one side of the disc. Sprinkle some shredded cheese on top if you'd like. Fold over the dough to make a half-moon and seal. Crimp the edges with a fork and set on a floured baking sheet. Repeat with the rest of the dough.
Bake at 400F for 25 minutes. Move to a cooling rack for about 10 minutes before you eat them. Best served hot, but they'll keep for a week or so in the fridge and are pretty good cold, too.
These are like empanadas or hand pies.
I have used Rabbit and Teal as a filling and it came out great too. Experiment with different fillings too. I have never used acorn flour I just use whole wheat or regular flour.
I like hand pies(empanadas) you can make a bunch of them and eat all week on them.
I always figured the term barking came from near misses with serendipitous results being explained as intentional. But if you have done it, I believe you.
I thought no one was going to ask.
It takes some effort. What you got to do is sneak up on a squirrel and grab him by the tail. Now a squirrel can swivel around on his tail and lay into you, so you have to start swing him in circles to keep him from doing it. When you start swinging the squirrel be sure to do it in the right direction, counter clockwise for your right hand a clock wise for you left hand, you'll see why in a minute.
Once you have the squirrel and got him swinging now you have to run down the pup, who doesn't have a clue what's happening and just naturally figures you've gone nuts and he best keep some distance. Once you've run the pup down, done while still keeping that squirrel swinging, you hit him in the head with the squirrel hard enough to knock the squirrel out, but not hard enough to knock the pup out, that doesn't work very well. Now you see why you have to start swinging the squirrel in the right direction to start with, because if you have to change direction that little fur ball will take the chance to light into you, and that's something you only have to learn once
Now the squirrel is knocked out and the pup is mad. Of course the pup is mad at you as well as the squirrel. But you being you and bigger and uglier than the squirrel it just naturally lights into the squirrel to get it's revenge. Along about that time the squirrel generally wakes up and lights back into the pup. The pup, not having been attacked by a squirrel before usually will take a brief second to evaluate what it's into. When that happens the squirrel will take the chance to bolt for the nearest tree. Now the pup, being still good and mad, will try to keep getting it's revenge on the squirrel and chase it to the tree and just naturally start jumping and barking. Now you have a started tree dog that just naturally wants to get revenge on every squirrel it comes across, and once he learns you will help him by shooting them out he's your partner forever.
That's the technique taught to me when I was a young-en and that's how I still do it. You can use the same technique to start them on * but you have to modify it a little as * are much heavier.
The Dogs treed 6 squirrels. Charlie my youngest dog was really on them.
I think I have another Beaver :x I am going to take the 17 rem and see if I can put a hole in him.
You're going to poke a beaver?
This one I found his slide, he is a small one so I am going to set up about 70 yds away and see if I can turn him into a bag of guts with a 25gr Barns HP at 3900 fps from my trusty 17 remington :shock:
Well, I gotta say that sounds like about as tall a tale as the petrified bear in the petrified forest. Not one day ever in my like could I sneak up on a squirrel and grab him by the tail. At least you didn't say grab him by the ears.