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Holy manure! Them's big squirrels! We don't grow'em nearly that big up here in Ontario. Now I see how you get enough meat off them to stew. I've never eaten squirrel - how does it taste, what's the texture like?
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Squirrel is excellent eating, but a real hassle to skin. In fact for the size they have the toughest hide of any critter I've hunted.
They taste just like.......squirrels! I generally par boil them tender then roll in flour, season and fry. Very tasty indeed.
We have the large eastern fox squirrel in N.E. Ohio, the grey is rather rare around these parts.
I have never taken one with a front loader but I plan on giving it a go this fall with the .40 Bucks flinter.
I hunted one year with a .22 air rifle, an RWS rifle, pretty powerful really, but not a good choice for squirrels as the pellets would not give complete penetration and they all required more than one shot.
In a modern rifle I'd recommend a .375 H&H with 300 grain solids.
They taste just like.......squirrels! I generally par boil them tender then roll in flour, season and fry. Very tasty indeed.
We have the large eastern fox squirrel in N.E. Ohio, the grey is rather rare around these parts.
I have never taken one with a front loader but I plan on giving it a go this fall with the .40 Bucks flinter.
I hunted one year with a .22 air rifle, an RWS rifle, pretty powerful really, but not a good choice for squirrels as the pellets would not give complete penetration and they all required more than one shot.
In a modern rifle I'd recommend a .375 H&H with 300 grain solids.
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They don't taste like chicken and they are not hard to skin.A while back there were some excellent post on how to skin a squirrel. I like to brown then in a skillet or dutch oven an then put mushroom gravy over them and bake. Rocky /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Here is a link to that post...
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=7319&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
In the southern end of the state we have the large gray and red fox squirrels which as other have already said, are excellent eating. We have a few grays in the northern end. Most up here are the small red- pine squirrel which are fun to hunt but not much to eat.
When I do get some grays, I par-boil them, them roll them in flour and brown them in the dutch oven. After they are browned add some stuff we have here called, " Kitchen Bouquet - browning and seasoning sauce". Add a little water, and some carrots, potatoes, celery, onion, peas and corn and let that bake until the squirrel meat falls off the bone. Then you take the squirrel out, debone it, add that meat back to the pot and put Pilsbury roll- dough over the mixture and bake until the rolls are done. Then you scoop a roll or two out and a big dollop of that squirrel and vegetable gravy out ontop of all that.... :: That is really good to eat...
I do the same with cottontail rabbits. Really a good way to eat them.
The other day I was working up a nice load of 80 grain of FFg Goex, and then the wads, with 100 grains of #6 shot. It was hitting a olive can out to 30 yards everytime. So I am going to give that a try on rabbits and squirrels this year.
Those are some nice big squirrels you got there. Dandy eating.
When I do get some grays, I par-boil them, them roll them in flour and brown them in the dutch oven. After they are browned add some stuff we have here called, " Kitchen Bouquet - browning and seasoning sauce". Add a little water, and some carrots, potatoes, celery, onion, peas and corn and let that bake until the squirrel meat falls off the bone. Then you take the squirrel out, debone it, add that meat back to the pot and put Pilsbury roll- dough over the mixture and bake until the rolls are done. Then you scoop a roll or two out and a big dollop of that squirrel and vegetable gravy out ontop of all that.... :: That is really good to eat...
I do the same with cottontail rabbits. Really a good way to eat them.
The other day I was working up a nice load of 80 grain of FFg Goex, and then the wads, with 100 grains of #6 shot. It was hitting a olive can out to 30 yards everytime. So I am going to give that a try on rabbits and squirrels this year.
Those are some nice big squirrels you got there. Dandy eating.
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Squirrel in gravy with pea and taters with buttermilk cat's head biscuit. Yum Yum! Where's the rum? Squirrel Pot Pie! Where's the Rye? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
I tried your recipe last night with rabbits in place of the squirrels. Even my wife and granddaughter ate it. Wife even said it was pretty good, and she ain't too much on eating rabbits.
I am glad they liked it. That is my favorite way of doing them and it is so easy. I made a big pot of that last winter when the nephews (a.k.a. the human stomachs) were visiting. Lucky I got to the pot first and took a serving because them devils cleaned that dutch oven out so fast I thought they must have spilled it.
I took my son out to shoot us some gray squirrels with his .22 last fall. He got 3 grays. Did you know you can call the by rubbing 2 quarters together between thumb and forefinger? Learned that trick back in the early 1980's. Does not work 100% of the time but most often with the young of the year. My wife was surprised how good they actually were. New Brunswick squirrel stew 
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Leadball, the old quarter thing works best when the using the edges to make the noise. Pressure on the edges dragging across the serrated part will make them pause to see where the "cutting" is coming from. Guess that's what you meant though.
I've always used a couple small rocks and rubbed them together.
I have more luck this time of year blowing a Squirrel distress call and beating a leafed branch on the ground.They think in is a Hawk catching a young one and come out raise cane with it.
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I have more luck this time of year blowing a Squirrel distress call and beating a leafed branch on the ground.They think in is a Hawk catching a young one and come out raise cane with it.
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For Sq's in Ohio I use my all purpose deer and small game rifle a .38cal. or .40 cal dual purpose and even triple purpose ,Target too!!!!! Have both flint and [url] tenn.mountain[/url] caplock.
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