Well not really but he’s just as good. We went out scouting yesterday trying to figure out a spot for Mason to start chasing his buck. I told him I’d bring the 20g and he’d bring a .22 and pop some squirrels. We went home with his 7. He didn’t realize how much he loved squirrel hunting because we’ve never gone before. What a riot. We were on private land and it was loaded with tree rats. So that’ll be our dinner this evening
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Nice I used to hunt them with my dad a lot. We would get one treed and the other guy would walk around to the other side of the tree the squirrel would pay attention to whomever was moving and present the other a shot. We mostly used 22’s so there was no picking bb’s out of the meat.
They taste like chicken?
They taste like chicken?
Squirrel is honestly a very good eat. One of my favorite wild small game eats.
Recently while on my porch enjoying a smoke, my dad came running out in his bathrobe and his knee high old man socks. He grabbed a stick that he had leaning up against the wall and ran into the yard hollering and shaking his stick around. Went out to see what the hell was going on and he had his stick and was wacking it around in a tree. Turns out he had enough of the squirrels in the bird feeder and had been covertly watching them from the dark living room and ran out in an ambush when he saw one. My parents are elderly, but sadly senility was not an excuse for him teaching all the neighborhood kids a plethora of new swear words. If your son gets bored with the squirrels I could probably rent my dad out to you. He gets paid in horrible cheap Canadian whisky so probably cheaper than a dog even.
How are you preparing them BC? We tried a lot of different things in my younger years cooking them when we would go plinking…and I don’t remember them ever being more than “meh” and in many instances terrible.
I have to thin the herd around the homestead. They’re a bit too thick and are burying English walnuts like mad in the yard.
Slow cooker squirrel tacos are a all time favorite.
Same with throwing 4 or 5 whole squirrel in the slow cooker just like I do a roast. Onions, peppers, seasoning, broth. Shred and seasve with mashed potatoes
Slow cooker squirrel tacos are a all time favorite.
I tried to make these for my youngest daughter. After I got it all shredded she just sat down with the plate of meat and didnt even leave enough for a taco. Her mom and sister wont touch stuff like that. She loves everything ive shot or caught. Except pickled fish I dont think she gets the concept of it. She expects fish or pickles and it aint either.
How are you preparing them BC? We tried a lot of different things in my younger years cooking them when we would go plinking…and I don’t remember them ever being more than “meh” and in many instances terrible.
I have to thin the herd around the homestead. They’re a bit too thick and are burying English walnuts like mad in the yard.
ate lotz and lotz of tree rats in my day. roll in flour, brown add some lipton onion soup and bake till tender……..make gravy add taters……..
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