Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Small Game Does one type of squirrel taste better than another?

One addition to some of those methods that works for me - dunk them in a bucket of water first and you will not have nearly the amount of hair trying to stick to the carcass.

Thats a good pearl. Thanks for the input. I'll remember that one.

you're supposed to skin them??? now i know why they're always so chewy when i make them. thanks for the tip.

Well rem, yes, that would explain the toughness...hehehe. Squirrel hides do tan into a fairly decent leather. They just don't make much of it!

If you tenderize any squirrel, brown it in a big skillet, take the critters out of the skillet, make a big skillet of gravy, throw the parts back in the skillet with the gravy and simmer for about a 6 pack or until the rice and bisquits are ready, you can't tell which of the sub species you are eating. Heck, you could throw in a young coon and no one would be the wiser. It would be good and I know from 1st hand experience. Any wine is proper with wild game.

coon - squirrel? I'd notice - you betchya...

But I like all the tree squirrels that I've eaten and that is 4 true species - I don't know how many different subspecies.

Along the lines of what DOO_DAH described, we take the old ones and brown them then cover with a can of cream of celery soup and a can of water, let simmer for an hour or a little longer. Makes for a very tasty change of pace.

Brent, I believe I'm with you, I'd notice. I like 'coon too...but I believe I can tell the difference between 'coon and squirrel.

Vic

The one time I had coon, I wished I would die...

Could have been the prep...

I will never again eat coon, nor attend anything called a "XYZ Feed" at the American Legion. Nope, no way, no how.

It seems like you fellars know your vittles but you haven't had anything that has been steamed down in my gravy. Doesn;t matter if you can tell what it is cause it's good. Don't think this is the time to talk about my possum on a stick.

Not yet...


but later...?

That musta been a 6-pack of Canadian beer he drank while waiting for the critters to cook. the alcohol content is much higher.

I could DEFINITELY tell the difference between squirrel and coon no matter how you cook it. Now dig an old work boot out of the bottom of a pig pen and throw it in a pot with a coon and I might not be able to tell which was which. If I could tell I'd probably choose to eat the boot. That is unless it was one of my sons boots. That kids feet smell WAYYYY worse than pig [bleep] and I'm sure one bite off'n one a his boots would kill a billy goat stone dead.

You fellars that don't like coon have to admit that is tastes better than eagle.

Actually, coon tastes a bit like alligator.

Yes there is a distinct difference. The ones I shoot taste much better than the ones from Hwy 288.

We have alot of the smaller chicory grey squirrels up in the high country in spruce trees. Cook one of them up and youswear you are chewing on a 100yr old pine tree.

squirrels, coon, possum? So nostalgic. My dog died. Knock 'em out of the tree fun but tough to skin. Carried coons that woke me up screwing in the trees to the black folk to barbeque. Dead broke. Pop said you may have to eat possum. Got a 22. Oooh......won't have to eat possum. Life is good?

The cooked ones are better than the raw ones!

grain fed squirrels taste the best

Nah, thems that eat akerns is best!