Hotsoup- I can relate, alot of those older Gray's can be like eating a tennis ball if they're fried. Here's a recipe I've used for a number of years for tasty and tender squirrel.
1. make certain the sucker is truly DEAD before putting it in your vest.
2. Once I've cleaned and cooled the meat,usually soak overnight in salt water. I brown it like I were going to fry, doesn't need to get golden brown. Then I place squirrel pieces in crockpot.
Crock pot will all ready contain as follows, 2-3 cans chicken broth. Sliced carrots, quartered new red potato's, large sweet yellow onions- Vidalia's if I can lay hands on them.
Add 1-2 bottles BBQ sauce. Then stand back and let cook on LOW for 4-6 hours. Had friends that've eaten fried LIMBRATS their whole lives state: NOW THAT'S HOW YOU COOK A SQUIRREL.
Also, this recipe has been known to CURE male pattern baldness, croup and benchrest flinching. A fact! MountainJam
