So how many different wild meats have you killed, cooked and eaten?

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Deer,
Elk,
Black bear,
Racoon,
Skunk,
Fox,
Bobcat,
Beaver,
Badger,
Rattle snake,
Iguana,
Garrobo,

Word of caution, bobcat is disgusting (at least if you eat it raw) the racoon tasted like pork cooked in apples
My all time favorite is badger salted and roasted over a fire, it has a flavor all it's own, and it is a good one.
 
For the members who don't live in the South, you may want to try Armadillo some day. Nothing special, though. The Rattlesnake was tasty enough but I get the mental image of a snake swallowing a rat. That in itself made me loose my appetite.
 
Eutycus said:
For the members who don't live in the South, you may want to try Armadillo some day. Nothing special, though. The Rattlesnake was tasty enough but I get the mental image of a snake swallowing a rat. That in itself made me loose my appetite.
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Armadillo is good!! We ate them in South America. Do they eat them in the southern US?
 
Whitetail Deer
Frog
Various fish
Rabbit
Squirrel
Chinese pheasant
Hungarian partridge
Wood duck
Mallard duck
Raccoon
Grey squirrel
Fox squirrel
Pine squirrel
Chipmunk
Ruffed grouse
Mystery meat

I'm not certain what the mystery meat was, and though I did not kill it, I did eat it. It was served to me by Arabs and Kurds in the Middle East during the first Persian Gulf War. I guess I could have used what little Arabic I knew to ask, but rule one when working with refugees and other potential allies is that you don't do anything that might offend the Nice Men with the AK-47 rifles, so I thanked them as best I could, reached in and grabbed some meat. Most likely it was sheep or goat, but I cannot rule out donkeys or camels. It could have been any of those or all of them at one point or another.... and I can't be sure if these were "wild" animals or not... most likely not.
 
I don't know why I did it but as a teenager (many years ago) I once ate a Roadrunner.It was such a stupid thing to do, I don't even know why I'm admitting it now.
 
Eutycus said:
In order to cook it you first had to kill it. It was far better off alive, they can kill a rattlesnake.
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I had compassion for a mosquito hawk that was trapped in my house today. There’s no wrong in having compassion for living things, but if one eats what they kill, I don’t think we have to give it much thought than perhaps gratitude. Roadrunners are really cool birds and one happened to find itself in a tight spot, which isn’t rare around humans. I’m curious how it tasted.
 
Ponderosaman said:
I had compassion for a mosquito hawk that was trapped in my house today. There’s no wrong in having compassion for living things, but if one eats what they kill, I don’t think we have to give it much thought than perhaps gratitude. Roadrunners are really cool birds and one happened to find itself in a tight spot, which isn’t rare around humans. I’m curious how it tasted.
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I really don't remember how it tasted, it such a long time ago. But it must have been okay as I think I ate the whole thing.
 
Ate gar and carp before while camping on the Cape Fear, was all we caught that night. If I remember right the meat was kinda like cotton in texture. We were drinking kinda heavy that night also. None of us ever wanted neither again.
 
Eutycus said:
I haven't gone through the whole thread (yet) but were Bullhead catfish mentioned? How about barbecued Alligator gar?
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I’ve eaten Bullhead before and you’d think I would have eaten Gar too with were I live, but I don’t remember if I did or not. Seems like I had Gar balls one time, they shred the meat, add spices and corn meal, sort of like a meaty hush puppy.
 
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Looking through all the comments I didn't see one mention of sandhill crane "ribeye in the sky"! Y'all are missing out!
 
Don't Armadillo carry leprosy? Always heard that.
I used to hunt a mountain in VA with my longrifle. Before 4x4 vehicles were prominent. Had to walk in about 1.5 miles. I'd purposely not take food, determined to kill or go hungry. Developed a weak load that had same POI as my deer load. Ate many a squirrel roasted on a green stick. My best meal was a large piece of tenderloin from a deer, killed in the snow, slow cooked over a fire kindled with flint&steel. Remember Fire In Five flint and steel kit? Came in a tin to hold charcloth and flint and steel. With dry materials you could actually have a fire in 5 seconds. I surely do miss the mountains.
 

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