When we first moved out here in what used to be rural middle TN, the old timers in the neighborhood traveled the rods looking for young of the year groundhogs.
That generation is mostly gone now and McMansions are popping up in the groundhogs habitat.
Groundhog and beaver are two critters that I have always wanted to eat.
Diet for both should be pretty clean/green.
My dad was a cook in the Army. Every year they’d do a wild game dinner for the officer’s mess. He took me along a couple times to do prep. He’d roast the whole beaver, sans guts and hide. When it was done, rip the head off and serve it.
A few years later the base commander got busted for poaching moose from a helicopter.
