Eat what you kill?

[balver]

I can’t even think about shooting a coyote it’s too

Eating what you shoot

Totally agree with you Mike. We raise and train German Shepherds and I don't ever even look at videos of folks taking coyotes.

 

[gendoc]

during the hunting season, i eat all the squirrels i take.
crocked until meat falls off the bone. then various cajun ways to finish the meat..
out of season, there just fed to other critters here on the farm.
i have a ate a rat years ago in Saigon while working a power plant there.
wasnt told what it was til i asked .....

 

[PasadenaMike]

Totally agree with you Mike. We raise and train German Shepherds and I don't ever even look at videos of folks taking coyotes.

Yeah recently I’ve drawn a line because of Lola.

 

[silvershooter589]

I much prefer to eat meat from the local farms but I've done enough pesting to know my target shooting skills do apply in those situations just as well. Now I don't even shoot pests, I find other non-lethal ways to move them along and away from my garden.

I have a chipmunk that digs holes next to my peppers and tomatoes on a daily basis and doesn't even run away when I approach. Whatever.. it's an innocent creature and so far it's not doing major damage. I think we could get along, eventually, if it can continue to keep the digging to an acceptable level.

But yeah if the time comes I'm ready to eat anything that I can spot in the crosshairs.

 

[PasadenaMike]

It’s all context I guess. If those coyotes were killing my livestock I’d shoot them. If I see a lonesome yote he can walk. If squirrels were damaging everything around here yes they get blasted but we have 4 squirrels so they live.i do enjoy hunting for food animals

 

[Chukar60]

I took a friend out to a feedlot to shoot pigeons one time and we racked up a good many. He asked if I had ever eaten them. “Nope, just look at where they eat when the cows have eaten everything in the bunks.”
He gave me a quizzical look and asked, “where?” “In the pens sifting through manure to find undigested corn and grain. You are welcome to as many of them as you want.”
We did not bring any home with us

 

[PasadenaMike]

Cottontail and Eurasian doves I eat when airgun hunting.

 

[Dr. Kralenstein]

 

[BlackICE]

Given that the Asians are eating the wild rats out of the rice fields where they ain't crawling through trash, no problem. But even they know not to mess with the ones from the garbage heap. Way too many parasites and diseases.
I don't even think about eating anything out of my yard. Squirrels like to roll around in dog crap, chew through lead based paint, and gnaw on wiring. Stuff I don't need in my food chain.

So you prefer to eat "farm" raised animals. Why is it that many people prefer free range chickens, over coup/farm raised chickens, but when it comes to rats, seem no one like free range rats, but prefer the farm raised ones?

 

[Long_Gun_Dallas]

As many have stated diet is important. Best squirrels I get are near walnut trees. I boil them for a good while, then take all the meat off the bones. Easily have a half bowl of meat if not more per squirrel. Throw it in stew, tacos, whatever. Give the dogs a treat as well.

 

[kayaker]

Vietnamese also eat cats and dogs, so there is that.


I've heard dog actually taste good, but I can't ever see myself doing that unless the world is about to end and that's all I got.

---------------------------------RVN- NA TRANG

Welllll it isn't bad, but at the time, none of us new that it was dog, not going into that situation so don't ask LOL. They say brown and black dogs taste better than light colored ones. One more thing to add it was a little tuff.

 

[PasadenaMike]

You’re going to have PETA here any second (People Eating Tasty Animals)

 

[Spartan]

during the hunting season, i eat all the squirrels i take.
crocked until meat falls off the bone. then various cajun ways to finish the meat..
out of season, there just fed to other critters here on the farm.
i have a ate a rat years ago in Saigon while working a power plant there.
wasnt told what it was til i asked .....

There’s no reason to not eat a game animal out of season, just FYI. It’s an old myth that they carry varying disease during off season and that’s why the seasons are setup like they are. Complete falsehood. Sure, they can/will be carrying various bugs on them in the warmer months, maybe even bot flies under the hide, but the meat is fine. If an animal is diseased it doesn’t matter what time of year it is.

 

[gendoc]

FYI.....you take game out of season for human consumption here in alabama and
you get caught, your going to wish you bought a steak for that meal

 

[Spartan]

FYI.....you take game out of season for human consumption here in alabama and
you get caught, your going to wish you bought a steak for that meal

I’m working on the assumption that it was taken legally, just outside of a hunting season. E.g., under a permit, which I acquire often.

 

[Dr. Kralenstein]

I never eat game animals when I'm out of seasoning

 

[dv8eod]

So you prefer to eat "farm" raised animals. Why is it that many people prefer free range chickens, over coup/farm raised chickens, but when it comes to rats, seem no one like free range rats, but prefer the farm raised ones?

Not sure if it's still on Netflix, but there is a documentary called "Rats." I don't recommend eating anything before watching as they get right into the guts looking at parasites they carry and diseases they spread. They cut one open and you could hardly believe it was still living with all the worms filling the cavity.

They do show how various groups kill them off. That was the first place I saw where they were using terriers in alleys to thin them out.

There used to be an awesome website dedicated to killing rats in the most creative ways. Unfortunately, some powderpuff cried their eyes out until it was removed.

 

[john8]

When I was much younger I belonged to a hunting and fishing club, we ate( at least tried ) all manner of critters, never killed us, some tasty some horrid. A friend were out coyote hunting and bagged a beauty with silver and red coat, so nice I was going to have it made into a wall hanger. It was cold as a witch's titty. I brought the critter home to skinout. Being as it was cold I started a fire in one of the fireplaces, old german farm house with two massive fireplaces in the basement. I started a good fire and proceeded to skin her out . Remenbering what my buddies that did Nam said about eating dog I cut a piece of hind quarter off, found a skewer and roasted it over an open fire. Well my Red Wings were more tender than the coyote, never again.

 

[WoodWelder]

Not sure if it's still on Netflix, but there is a documentary called "Rats." I don't recommend eating anything before watching as they get right into the guts looking at parasites they carry and diseases they spread. They cut one open and you could hardly believe it was still living with all the worms filling the cavity.

I saw the same thing with "bridge/skyscraper" city pigeons, dirty nasty garbage.......I knew folks that raised clean eating pigeons.

 

[Spartan]

Most humans will feel a natural aversion towards eating predators or scavengers. It’s in our DNA going back to the caveman days. And there’s good reason for that. Those predators and scavengers are most likely to have disease that can be transmitted to us. Trust your instincts that were developed over thousands of years. Stick to only eating the prey animals.