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Thank you pullit. This bird had a 7 1/4" beard, 7/8" spurs and weighed 19 lbs. 4 oz.. There were five of them together and they all looked about the same to me. I killed one on that same ridge last fall no more than 75 yards from where I killed this one.

I'll shoot you a PM.

You, apparently, don't know me very well.

It's OK. You're forgiven.

Over the years I've canned lots of meat.....deer, wild turkey, chicken, beef. It's all tasty if prepared properly. That Amish story is funny. I've got some Amish friends that are into bear hunting. They gave me some bear bologna one time. It tasted horrible. They may have "aged" their meat a bit too long. At least that was what my Yankee taste buds said.

I think a lot of people vastly underestimate others and there are more than a few that would say it in person, and many who claim would "knock a guy out if they said it to me" would be surprised to find their own asses handed to them. Not all that talk do so because they can't throw hands. Often, IME it's because they CAN throw hands.

Donny Stark was a bad son of a gun growing up in his gilded world.....

Here's another Amish "deer story". I was a rural mail carrier, and an Amish farmer on my mail route begin processing deer at his farm. I had stopped at his house delivering a package when a truck pulling a trailer with at least a dozen dead deer pulled in to his place. This was probably 4-5 days after the opening of the deer season, and from the looks of some of those deer, I'd say most had been killed on opening day. The temps were warm, and had been for some time.

Being a deer hunter myself, I was curious if there were any good bucks in the bunch, so I hung around a bit so I could see. I didn't get out of my vehicle, but could smell the deer and could tell that some were in the "ripe" category. I'd say they were overly aged, and knowing the Amish as I do, I'd also say that they processed every one of those deer.

Over the years, the Amish and the Mennonites on my mail route gave me a lot of food during the Christmas season. I gave every bit of it away, or tossed it. The Bible says that cleanliness is next to Godliness...............but that must not be in the Bible that those people read, as their definition of clean and mine are entirely different.

Being half yankee and half rebel, I tend to like it all. Gimme some scrappel for breakfast and some chicken and dumplings for dinner and I'm a happy man.

Being from Pa, I damned well Yoder is a scrappel eater.

Wrong !!!! 🤣🤣🤣

I can't even LOOK at that stuff. 🤮

You ain't no Yankee! My dad and his family are from Pennsylvania. He introduced my mom's side to scrappel. My mom and her family are from South Carolina and Arkansas. They introdcuied my dad's side to collard greens and putting hog jowl in everything.

Best of both worlds!

My suggestion - get some scrappel, the white stuff, and fry it up with some eggs, then eat it with pancakes and real maple syrup. Holy friggin moly, you will become a convert.

LOL, me neither ! I also don't eat possum, pigs feet, hog jowls, ocra, brains, grits, tripe and a whole list of other shyt Southerners think is food.

Some of that is black folks food. We don't eat possum, pigs feet, brains, tripe or chitlins. (Though I've had chitlins (aka [bleep] lins) with hot sauce and it's actually not bad.)

We do eat hog jowl, grits, fried chicken livers and gizzards, and a whole list of other wholesome foods.

By the way, brains has the distinction of being like one the highest cholesterol containing foods there is (though it doesn't appear to mattert that much, and is appartently good for your own brain). Pork brains has something like over 1,000% the daily recommended allowance of cholesterol. I have a black friend at work whose dad eats it multiple times a week for breakfast, fried with eggs. That old man is in his 90s and is fit, drives, and has all his faculties.

I always heard possum and sweet taters was a southern po folks dish. I shot one once many years ago with the idea of giving it a try but just couldn't go through with eating the ugly rat tailed bastard. Likewise the only people I ever heard of eating brains were from the South. I don't have much experience with black folks or what they eat as the County I live in is 98.6% white. They seem to mainly be creatures of the bigger cities up here and I avoid going to those whenever possible, which is almost always.

guy that worked for me years ago told me "souce is the best part of the pig". I told him. he could have all my souce and I would take his ribs, bacon, pork chops as an even swap

Eat everything but the squeal…. I believe is how the saying goes.

There used to be a country store in Charles City County, Virginia called Adkins Store. It may still exist. Back in the 70s and 80s, it was a game check station in additon to a country grocery store. It was owned and run by a black dude and he stocked the weirdest stuff. You could buy pig snouts in there. Country black folk made soup out of them. I remember walking through that store as a kid and it was like an anatomy lesson on swine. They ate every part of it.

Rick Shaw has it right. Our ancestors always said the only thing that wasn’t edible on a hog was it’s squeal!!

Silly me always throwing away perfectly good guts, nuts, peckers, heads, and ass holes of a critter.

My black friend used to say about hogs "we eat them from the rooty to the tooty"