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Eating 'scrats?
That doesn't sound pleasant. At all. 100,000 mink can’t be wrong! Mine become bobcat bait but to each their own.
I am always looking for factory wood stocks!
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Ya I work with a colored feller from Mississippi that says coons are good.... And that's not a pun....
Was up to camp with my grandpa 60 years or so ago and he was cooking a coon my uncle had shot. He parboiled it for an hour at least to boil some of the fat off of it, then popped it into a covered turkey roasting pan with a pile of onions (and a dose of his home brew, IIRC). He roasted that bad boy in the oven of his wood-burning cook stove until the meat just slid off the bones. When he piled up a plate for me, I admit I was a little wary. I asked him what raccoon tasted like, and he answered, “Well it doesn’t taste like beef, and it doesn’t taste like chicken. It just tastes like coon!” Indeed it did! I ate a couple of platefuls.
"Keep your mouth shut, work hard. Life is tough. Work through it.” -- Stetson Bennett, Quarterback, Georgia Bulldogs
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Meat is meat.
Anyone that'd eat an oyster will eat anything.
What fresh Hell is this?
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Where did you get the fur hat made or where did you buy it?
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Great. I have been there a number of times (live in Minnesota), and happen to have a few tanned beaver furs. Thanks.
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Where did you get the fur hat made or where did you buy it? They are called trapper hats here and are available all over the place. http://www.alaskafurexchange.com/hatstrapper.shtml
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When worked on the N Slope, asked a Native what he was going to do on his off time, response was trap rats, I asked him what they tasted like?
He thought for a while, then responded like Rat!
kk alaska
Alaska 7 months of winter then 5 months of tourists
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Never had muskrat before, but one year my dad did a pig roast for a bunch of his friends instead of using a pig he used to Beaver and never told anyone. After everyone ate it they all liked it and then he told him it was a beaver. It was pretty greasy from what I remember
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I've never eaten muskrat, but I have a friend whose trapped nutria on Back Bay in Virginia and cooked those. They are actually very good, indeed. He soaks the meat in buttermilk to tenderize it.
We have a lot of muskrats here. I suppose most places with water do. We have a local business park that had a WWII era drainage canal in it that had muskrats and the last population of cottonmouth snakes in that part of the city. Once the business park was established and picknick table put out for the workers, people started to complain about the snakes. Heck, I had one crawl into an inspection garage at the insruance building I worked at. The landowners started killing any snake they found. It wasn't to long after the cottonmouths were eradicated that it became unwise to walk anywhere near that canal. The muskrats had burrowed into the banks and walking close to the canal you stood a good chance of the ground collapsing into a maze of burrows and being in mud up to your hips. That canal is a total cluster now. It was once a pretty park-like area. Now it's eroded and broken and none of the landscaping is safe from muskrats.
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