Best food ever while out hunting

[hanshi]

It has been my experience, starting as a kid, that most any food will taste so much better when you're in the woods. Even the Snickers bars tasted better than at home.

 

[longcruise]

One of my favourite meals when we used to pig hunt was " neds corner stew ", which was essentially a perpetual stew into which we threw whatever we caught or shot or had left over for the 4 days we were there over Easter long weekend.

My wife's family had a tradition for multi day social events. They called it "nail soup". It was made by putting a large pot of water on to boil and then tossing in a nail. From then on participants added their own ideas on what should be in it.

 

[bldtrailer]

Big oat meal cookies

 

[Bassdog1]

I took a trip up to Canada several years ago. Took a few cans of Spam. Decided to do shore lunch one day unfortunately fish did not cooperate so we fried up spam with taters and onions.

 

[Gamechaser]

Kippered herring and summer sausage over a sunflower heater while deer hunting. Special note,! Cooking herring in a deer stand produces lots of smoke,weird looks from passing hunters and lots of curious deer

 

[D.Summers]

What is a sunflower heater?

 

[Gamechaser]

In my neck of the woods it is a heater that screws on top of a 20 lb propane bottle

 

[D.Summers]

I expect you could fry a turkey with that!! LOL!

 

[Gamechaser]

Probably, might have to try that sometime

 

[Gamechaser]

My brother and I cook all kinds of stuff while we're deer hunting we have competitions to see who can cook the most outrageous thing

 

[D.Summers]

When I was a younger fellow my bigger brother would try and cook possums, muskrat, and crows. One time a snapping turtle I caught while catfishing. The possum was pretty good, he cooked it like a pot roast. I don't remember the muskrat. The crow was like sisal rope, completely inedible. The turtle was disgusting, but we were 14 and 15 years old. Coming home one night he witnessed a barred owl getting hit by a car right in front of him. He brought him home and cooked him up and I was the only one to try it. I had a leg, the talons still on it. I remember that it wasn't too bad! We were a strange family! The possum and muskrat came from my trapline. I don't know if I would eat these things today!!

 

[Dale Lilly]

Same things I take on an extended bicycle trip: cashews, fig newtons, dates, jerky and water. Dale

 

[Gamechaser]

I've eaten muskrat beaver never any possum or owl but the Muscat and the Beaver were pretty good

 

[Gamechaser]

Muskrat! Stupid phone

 

[Gamechaser]

Woodchuck is darn good too

 

[Gamechaser]

Woodchuck is darn good

 

[Gamechaser]

Same things I take on an extended bicycle trip: cashews, fig newtons, dates, jerky and water. Dale

Where are you from abouts

 

[D.Summers]

Never had beaver. We sure cooked up some woodchuck. It was a long time ago. I used to hunt them with my old JC Higgins single shot .22. They could be tough to kill ! I was a pretty good shot, but sometimes those old boys could absorb two, three shots before they stopped moving. We cooked them a few times, so they must've been fairly tasty!

 

[D.Summers]

I'm near a place called Dyke, Virginia, up next to the Blue Ridge. How's about you?

 

[Dale Lilly]

Where are you from abouts

I am currently in Oklahoma [15 years] but I hunted Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Alabama, Alaska, California. US Air Force 22 years, church pastor later, now 90 and long retired. But I still have my MLs. Dale [Polecat]