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Never ate one, and don't plan on it, but the old Black folks here would go crazy over them.

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Southern friends cooked one, looked like a fetus in the pan. Tasted pretty good.

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Cooked up a big one a few years back.

I've ate all sorts of "weird" things. It was by far the worst.

I keep meaning to try a young one.


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Did you guys who didn't like it remove the glands from the front armpits? Makes a difference.

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When I was a kid my Grandpa told me they had eaten them ,amongst a lot of other stuff too Ha

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Originally Posted by Irving_D
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I have, but ain’t especially looking to repeat the experience. The hide is very tough, the meat as I recall similar to pork or chicken thighs.

Will re-evaluate if (when) everything goes to Hell.

The OP’s would probably have been as good as they get.
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At Bar-B-Q'ed chuck once, at a sportsman meeting. I would rather eat an old pair of Shaq's Chuck Taylor Allstars than repeat it.


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When I was a youngster in 58-60 time frame growing up in SW PA, the local Moose chapter in a little town where my boy lives now had an annual ground hog fete. Anyone who killed one would bring it in cleaned and into the freezer. It was OK, but not impressive.


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Originally Posted by JamesJr
Never ate one, and don't plan on it, but the old Black folks here would go crazy over them.

had a older black nurse tell me the same thing woodchuck is the best meat to eat . i have always wondered ?


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I never have but it is a vegetable eating rodent. It's probably pretty good, or at least no worse than rabbit, nutria, muskrat or squirrel.

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I shot a young one sunning itself on a tree limb in November. I called a friend of mine and he dressed it and cooked it. He told me not to bring him anymore.

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When going to college in SW Missouri I always enjoyed shooting them and then putting them on to BBQ. There was never a shortage of people wanting more


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Until I moved to VA, a couple years ago, I ate them, mostly ones that got close enough to shoot off the front porch. Shoot young ones with a 22, head shot. Get them skinned right away. Its usually hot out and you want them cleaned and cooled off quickly. I cook them like squirrels, same recipes. The hide is pretty tight, like squirrels and they taste like squirrels to me. I've even had them cooked with kraut.
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We used to make tough boot laces from the hide of big ones.

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Dispatched several on my property but never thought of lunching on them.
Agreed that may be good SHTF chow!

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IrvingD: I have eaten Rock Chuck - yearlings are best as I recall.
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Originally Posted by Masshunter
Around the end of June the young of the year would be just big enough. Used to par boil then BBQ, ground up the bigger ones and use for spagetti sauce. With the small farms dissapearing, and the coyotes moved in don't see many anymore. I would crockpot now. Check under the armpits for little glands that look like a corn kernel and cut them off.

Never ate one. But my grandma always said she'd cook me one if I got her a small one. Not a big one. She said she had cooked a bunch of them. But she said, "You have to par boil them in (baking) soda water, first".


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I don’t have any personal experience but have heard many times that they have the best tasting liver of any known beast. Or some such unknowable accolade

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No woodchucks around here, just whistle pigs.

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Have tried it twice.
First one was good eating. The second, not so much.
They like my garden, so I will do it again someday.


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Originally Posted by pete53
Originally Posted by JamesJr
Never ate one, and don't plan on it, but the old Black folks here would go crazy over them.

had a older black nurse tell me the same thing woodchuck is the best meat to eat . i have always wondered ?

Same here. A worker at the Ford garage as a kid would gladly pay $1 each for young groundhogs that weren’t shot up bad for the table.

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