Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Why can’t you live on Rabbit meat?

I had always heard moose was the most complete meat and indians could eat it all winter long by itself without suffering ill effects.

And General Motors.

I wonder how many Indians that killed. I wonder how many got trichinosis from bear meat, fat.

I think they get spots on the liver.

I chicken fry them but they are usually tough, even if i cook the hind qs in a pot of pinto beans. I have some cooking now with onion, celery and deer heart.

That line would need to be quite a bit longer for me.

Its strange that the mountain men also were fond of buffler hump and tongue.

Anyone here try that?

Beef tongue is okay.

I think they pitched the tail in the campfire coals and crisped the cracked outside off. I wonder if the outside became similar to hog cracklins.

Thinking not as many as were killed from blankets laced with small pox...😎

Hahahaha. Fo sho bro.

I had to quit both rabbit AND caffeine...………

Made me jumpy

Have you guys ever tried smoking or grilling cottontail?

No, Rooster, can you do that and have them tender enough to eat.

I lived on rabbit meat for several years because all my money was sent on airfare and tequila. I guess the occasional pork ribs at Carlo's and Charlie's saved my like.

Gotta shoot young of the year if you're gonna fry em and not be tough. Older rabbits are best slow/moist cooked to tenderize. My wife makes a delicious scalloped rabbit. Not sure what all she puts in it but she boils it till tender first and saves the stock. Then picks the tender meat off the bones and mixes it into a casserole dish with croutons, broken up saltines and some spices. She then pours some of the stock over the meat/crouton/saltines mixture and bakes it in the oven. While it's cooking she makes a gravy from the rest of the stock and some chicken boulion and cooks some potatoes. When it's all done you spoon the scalloped rabbit over a bed of mashed taters add gravy over the top and enjoy.

I have had grilled tame rabbit that was very good cooked on a smoky charcoal and wood fire.
My mother used to marinate young wild rabbits that we killed and broiled them. Those could have been cooked on a fire and been good.

When camping I eat a lot of cottontail rabbits, younger the better.
Haven't tried jackrabbit, which is actually a hare I believe.

I have a couple friends who raise bison for market.

They are closely related enough that they will cross breed with beef cows, and they have the same diet. Pasture grass and alfalfa hay, in captivity. It would make sense that bison tongue would eat just like cow tongue. Of which I have eaten quite a bit.

Local Mexican Food places sell a bunch of Tacos la Lengua, which is tongue. They go for about 50 cents each above the cost of shredded beef, pork, or chicken.

I can eat tongue, but it is nothing special. A good tenderloin, or T-bone is 100 times better.

Back when I was in grammar school, and our libraries were filled with non-PC literature, I read a lot of books (often two a day) about frontier life, nineteenth century cowboys, Indian fighters, and buffalo hunters. Many of those books made reference to hunters killing bison for the $1.00 per tongue bounty offered by US Army.

Whether such a bounty was actually ever offered I do not know. But it sure would have gone a long way toward eliminating bison from the plains in an effort to starve out the tribes of that area.