Putting food on the table with primitive weapons

[dhaverstick]

Over the long weekend I was able to sneak a little hunting in about every day. I smoked the squirrels I killed last week and made nachos with the meat I promised my friends I would make them at the barbershop. They turned out well!

I killed a few more with my smoothbore flinter.

I also blooded my new recurve!

No, I have not even come close to putting a dent into the local squirrel population.

Darren

 

[3Setters]

Wow that looks good

 

[user 36911]

What does squirrel taste like?

 

[Dale Lilly]

What does squirrel taste like?

Delicious

 

[Magungo1066]

What does squirrel taste like?

It is absolutely great, this is furthered by the fact that squirrel hunting is so fun. There are a few ways to cook squirrel that are truly awesome. I shot squirrels long before I ever shot a deer, and ate every one of those squirrels.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Nice bow, very short, does it pinch your fingers?

 

[user 36911]

It is absolutely great, this is furthered by the fact that squirrel hunting is so fun. There are a few ways to cook squirrel that are truly awesome. I shot squirrels long before I ever shot a deer, and ate every one of those squirrels.

I always hunted big game. Never got around to squirrels. Does it taste like any other meat I might know.

 

[Magungo1066]

I hate to be cliche but it does taste similar to chicken. I would take squirrel meat over chicken any day. Maybe its because I grew up eating them. When I moved to New England and first made friends, they thought I was some sort of mountain-man savage for having eaten squirrel.

 

[user 36911]

Chicken will work.

I was born and brought up in New England. Too long ago to remember how popular squirrel hunting was. I did a little rabbit hunting but I was hooked after the first deer I shot. Plus, deer hunting was all my dad and brother did at the time. We all went to Colorado and got hooked on elk.

 

[tenngun]

I always hunted big game. Never got around to squirrels. Does it taste like any other meat I might know.

To me it’s a venison like flavor, or a small bite of venison and chicken at the same time.
I use it with the same spices I use for beef or venison when cooking

 

[deermanok]

What does squirrel taste like?

Taste like chicken.

 

[dhaverstick]

Nice bow, very short, does it pinch your fingers?

It's 54" Wild Horse Creek Mariah recurve and it pulls 53# @ 28". I had it made for a Gould's turkey hunt I'm going on in Mexico next year. It draws very smoothly and there is no finger pinch.

Darren

 

[hanshi]

Starting as a kid with a BB gun I shot a rabbit or two and then started on squirrels with a pellet rifle and so on. I did a number on squirrels and only got seriously into deer hunting in my early 20s. Took them with .32 and .36 muzzleloaders and a few with a .45. As a kid my grandmother, who raised me, cooked them for me along with the occasional rabbit. They are good and taste like......well, like rodent.

 

[Whitworth]

Squirrel pot pie and fried squirrel are quite good. Roasted on a spit over the campfire with some salt and pepper is good if you're roughing it.

 

[kje54]

I shot a pumpkin once. Does that count?

 

[Musketeer]

Squirrel + nachos = squachos? Nice shooting.

 

[nhmoose]

I shot a pumpkin once. Does that count?

Only if the pie you made from it tasted good!

 

[Cattywompuss]

What does squirrel taste like?

Believe it or not, chicken. Squirrel dumplins is as good as chicken in NC. Of course, it ent called dumplins in NC. "Chicken and Dumplins" is Chicken Pastry in NC... so Squirrel Pastry.

 

[Cattywompuss]

I shot a pumpkin once. Does that count?

 

[William Lincoln]

The expert seems to be some guy: Hovey Smith ,backyard
muzzleloading hunting books. He lives in the middle
of Georgia. He even took muzzleloaders to Africa for
big game. An Old dude. He has a youtube channel. Tons of
recipes and advice. I have shot a lot of game, but
only really cooked venison-- and with beef prices up, going
back to doing it. As a kid, my family cooked squirrel just like
we fried chicken and fish in that old iron fry pan.